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My Experience With the Opal C1 Webcam

Behind a tremendous physical design lies a mediocre user experience, thanks to still-in-beta-after-months software.

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Remembering My Short Story of Owning The 20-inches iMac G5 — 2005-2007

This Mac had a short lifespan in my life. The reason why will probably surprise you as much as it did!

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Remembering Owning The PowerBook Duo 210 — 1993-1994

My First Portal Mac.

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Things That Don’t Stick With Me

Everything that don’t stick with me, from services, apps et al.

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On Sideloading on iPhone — It’s OK, I’m Changing My Mind

An explanation on why I’m ok now with the sideloading of apps on the iPhone, plus, a quick interview with one of the most vocal App Store critic — Kosta Eleftheriou.

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Things to Watch in 2022

There are quite a few things of interest for me to watch in 2022. From #Apple to applications and services, 2021 was a big year, but 2022 is full of promises.

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When Tech Gadgets Can’t Connect — Observations and Thoughts From the Offline World

Using a device in airplane mode can be a source of surprises and frustrations. This blog post is about my experience on a 5-hour flight to Mexico.

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Seeing Death From a Distance, Through FaceTime Calls

Technology can play unexpected roles in our lives. This is my experience of depending on FaceTime to see my father quit this world.

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Substack vs Buttondown — Who’s Better? — My Observations

On the surface, Buttondown looks promising and a great competitor to Substack, but after spending some time testing the service, a few things about it made me pause.

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A Day in the (Numeric) Life of my Apple Watch

I’ve been using an Apple Watch since 2015: first, the original series, then Series 4 and now Series 6. Over the years, my use of the Apple Watch has evolved to be closer to smartphone usage: something that goes beyond notifications. This evolution closely reflected the evolution of native applicatio

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Using Synology NAS for Hosting my Blogger Visual Assets

As a long-time blogger, my digital assets grew to a point where a solution was needed to manage them effectively using its own solution: Synology Moments. Let’s see how I came to this solution.

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I’m all mixed up now, Thanks to Apple

In recent weeks, I started working on a new project for my daytime job: building a software-defined data center in a box (or some would call it a home lab). I put a lot of thoughts into it, wrote about it. Now, thanks to Apple and their shiny new Apple Silicon Macs, I’m all mixed… Continue Reading →

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My Thoughts on HEY and Why I’m Paying for Emails

We rarely get to see initiatives trying to reinvent basic services like email. The recently introduced HEY email service from Basecamp is trying to do just that. Here are my thoughts and why I’m going to pay for emails in 2020.

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A Simple Review of Townscraper

I’m not into games. I’m not a gamer. I rarely play computer games. I don’t play games at all actually. It doesn’t mean I don’t value this type of art, I do. I’m impressed by how games are evolving and taking all the juice of computer power to draw pixels on the screen. But, that’s… Continue Reading

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Replacing an Aging AirPort Extreme with the Unifi Dream Machine

I’ve been looking at a replacement for my aging AirPort Extreme for over a year. Here is my experience of replacing it with an Ubiquiti’s Unifi Dream Machine.

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On SpaceX Launch with Humans

Space exploration by humans is so fascinating. When I was a young kid, I remember reading books on the Apollo program and Skylab. My room walls were filled with space exploration posters. Consider me part of the Space Shuttle program generation. Everything about SpaceX brings back the excitement for

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A Guide for Preparing to Leave Your Numeric Legacy

When someone passes away, managing his or her legacy can be challenging. Younger generations are building a numeric legacy that can prove to be impossible to manage. See how an emergency kit can alleviate the burden and make your life easier.

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My Review of Mailbrew: a Powerful and Time-Saving Internet Information Aggregator

Mailbrew is a powerful and time-saving internet information aggregator that allows its users to build useful newsletters. More than ever, content aggregation is essential these days. This is why I’m a big fan of News Explorer (read my review here) and this is why I decided to subscribe to Mailbrew f

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Working From Home? How to Improve Your Web Conferencing Experience

The coronavirus forces many people to work from home. Here is how to improve your use of collaborative software like web conferencing applications and be a good meeting attendee. The world is in a major sanitary crisis, putting our life on hold for many weeks, thanks to the coronavirus. Companies ne

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Not a Review of Mailbrew

A new and one of a kind service launched this week called “Mailbrew“. Basically, it is a news aggregator that generates newsletters that you receive in your mailbox. Sources can be RSS, Reddit, Twitter and a few more. I’m not aware of any service like this one. Tempting. At first, I thought that I c

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Things to Look for Before Buying a New Application

When you buy a new app for your iPhone or your iPad, what do you look for before making your decision? Here is a real use case with Raindrop.io. For this blog post, I want to do things a bit differently. I’m always looking for new ways to improve my blogger workflow (please, read “Introducing… Conti

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RSS Readers War: From Reeder to News Explorer

I’m a long time user of Reeder, a well known and well designed RSS reader for the Apple ecosystem (see my review of Reeder 4 here). But, recently during a discussion on Telegram (which by the way you can find me there @ https://t.me/numericcitizennews [https://t.me/numericcitizennews]), someone ment

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My 10 Years of iPad

Dear iPad, you’ve come a long way. You were not perfect. You lacked a USB port. Most of your apps were “blown up” iPhone apps. Yet, I fell in love with you instantly. Here is a brief summary of my 10 years of iPad. The intro Apple’s keynote with Steve Jobs introducing the iPad was… Continue Reading

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Managing The Elderly’s Numeric Life

Managing the elderly’s numeric life poses many challenges. One of them is how do you keep valuable data from being lost from one generation to the other. Here is my experience followed with many tips and advice. I’m back from a weekend trip to my parent’s house. This is a seven hours drive. My paren

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Memories

This is where it all started for me. The Commodore 64 was my first computer. This wasn’t the first computer that I wanted though. The Apple //e was the one. But this machine was way more expansive and I didn’t need those expansion slots that came with it. I’ll always remember one of my friend… Conti