2017
Problems with digital home assistants
For the last several months, I have been testing both Siri and the Google Assistant as voice controllers for my home automation products. While neither product is really very good at this point in time, I have less overall problems with Siri than I do with the Google Assistant. In this post I will outline…
What is up with Google, Spotify, Waze and Google Music?
Recently, I have been driving to work after a very long stretch of either walking or taking subways/trains. I have found that the GPS apps are pretty useful for letting me know if there is traffic on I-95 South. Currently, I am juggling Waze and Google Maps as my go to apps as well as…
The iPad Pro will never be a laptop replacement until it supports a mouse.
I have been meaning to post something to this blog about my thoughts on the iPad Pro for a while now, but due to time commitments, I haven’t had the time to do it. The recent Apple commercials kind of gave me an urge to write something due to their misleading nature. First. let me…
Are you using LastPass yet?
Passwords suck. When was the last time you said: “Yeah! Another password!”? Yet, what else can we use? At the moment, there are many viable approaches to eliminating passwords from single sign-on solutions, biometrics, mobile device-based alternatives to more out-of-the-box style approaches (see SQRL for an interesting idea). While these are interesting and a few…
Things I use, but am not 100% happy with…
Recently, I moved to a larger house after living in apartments and town houses for almost 20 years. Living in small places wifi had never really been an issue to me, and other than the occasional reboot of the router, I was very happy. In the new house, I tried to use my trusty Linksys…