Author: Tony Tam
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Digital Entertainment I Am Willing To Pay For
We do not pay for cable, never did and do not have a TV. We do have a movie projector and a 90″ drop down projection screen. Looking at our digital entertainment obligations: We get the recent DVD ‘s free from the San Francisco public library. We pay for Comcast for 6mbps for faster internet…
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No more freebies from Evernote
Evernote Basic subscribers can save up to five emails to their Evernote account. To continue using the feature, you must upgrade your Evernote account. Today when I emailed a note to my notebook, I got the above paywall message. I used to love Evernote. You can create notes very quickly, you can email notes to…
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Small reasons why I enjoy developing for Android over iOS
I have developed a set of small apps that I have published to the Apple Store and Google Playstore. Recently I have been playing around with Android Wear and a refurbished 2014 Moto 360 watch and wrote a simple app on the watch to only focus on 3 todo’s a day, call ‘tri wear‘. The…
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link: Seth’s Blog: First, interact
The best way to tell if your speech is going to go well is to give your speech. The best way to find out if your new product has market appeal is to try to sell it. The best way to become a teacher is to teach. There’s a huge need for study, refinement and…
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link: Why Twitter’s Dying (And What You Can Learn From It) — Bad Words — Medium
It wasn’t Professor Plum in the Library with the Candlestick. So what killed Twitter? Source: Why Twitter’s Dying (And What You Can Learn From It) — Bad Words — Medium
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link: Why I’m No Longer Interested in Square After Seeing Its IPO Filing — The Motley Fool
http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2015/10/18/why-im-no-longer-interested-in-square-after-seeing.aspx?source=eogyholnk0000001&utm_source=yahoo&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=article – Tony Tam
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link: Yahoo Offers Password-Free Login for Email – Digits – WSJ
Yahoo has a new pitch to email users: Forget about your password. Source: WSJ http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2015/10/15/yahoo-offers-password-free-login-for-email/ and… The new @Yahoo Mail app is out. There’s magic at every tap…and now supports Hotmail, Outlook.com and AOL Mail! Learn more here: Yahoo Tumblr
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link: Pamela Fox – Voice coaching: What I learned
From Pamela Fox of Kahn Academy http://blog.pamelafox.org/2015/10/voice-coaching-what-i-learned.html I use my voice a lot. I give talks at conferences, I teach workshops for GDI, and I record videos for Khan Academy. But I’ve never loved my voice. I grew up with British parents, so I spent my life wishing I had an accent that sounded as…
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Developing For Android Wear: Day 1
I decided to start development for Android Wear this week after seeing my co-worker Ollie’s watch and him mentioning that it’s a new space to get into while it’s still relatively young niche in the mobile market. I bought the Moto 360 (2014) model from Amazon for roughly $124 (refurbished). My daughter (14 years old)…