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User Input: Slaves to Technology

Techie and I were talking about the march of technology in our lives, and the strange side-effects that have arisen as a result. A particular example has shown itself to us in the last few days, and we had each noticed it at around the same time. Both Techie and myself use iPhones, [...]

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User Input: Plugged In To The Matrix

Remember that silly movie, where Keanu Reeves was like plugged into a big complex network that took over his brain and controlled what he thought and saw, and try as he might, he couldn’t escape it until Lawrence Fishburn roofied him? Yeah, that’s so totally unrealistic. Well, except for the part where it’s [...]

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Startup: There’s An App For That

It might be that you need to protect your phone from more than just spills and dropping. No word on whether it comes in a right-handed version.

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User Input: Stationary Collapse

I arrived at work today to be welcomed by the infamous BSoD, or Blue Screen of Death. I’m normally fairly non-terrible with computers, so I tried doing some troubleshooting, but it won’t stay running for long enough to get anywhere. You get about 45 seconds of usable time with the computer before the [...]

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User Input: Survival Against All Odds

“Can you hear me now?”

Because I am a filthy hipster douchebag, I went out and got myself a new iPhone 5 a few weeks ago. It’s great, but I can’t really say I’m excited about it at all. It’s another iPhone, and it does iPhone-type thingies. It makes appropriately happy blinky-lights and [...]

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User Input: Staying Connected

Admit it, we've all been there.

Yesterday, you may have noticed, there was no User Input. I am in the process of moving to a new house, and it has now been three weeks since Shaw promised to send someone around to set up our cable and internet hookups. We’re currently operating on [...]

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User Input: Engineered Disappointment

Yes, I'm sure my life will never be the same again once I get me a pair of these!

If you follow the latest technology news — probably on other sites, we tend to be absolute crap when it comes to delivering up-to-the-minute buzz on the tech industry — you’re probably used to [...]

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Gone To The Dark Side

Last weekend I got a new phone. My two years was up on my HTC Incredible and I was, as I usually am about these things, excited to get something new. I was trying to decide if I wanted to stay Android and go with the Galaxy Nexus or switch to the Dark Side and go with an iPhone 4S.
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User Input: Underutilized

Millions of dollars in computing power… used to play chess.

A few years ago, when I was in university, a few friends and I discovered — with a bit of unlocking of software — that our new digital cellphones had extra features. We could send text messages, a concept that virtually nobody had [...]

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User Input: Keep It Simple

Trailer Trash Ladybug

Whenever I go travelling, there is usually a large assortment of various cameras that get packed into bags and come along with me. In all honesty, I have no idea why I bother. There’s a simple portable point-and-shoot that fits neatly into a pocket; there’s a larger point-and-shoot that the [...]