As a pilot, I have had to add hours to my local time in my head, to determine UTC time when filing flight plans, and that would change depending if it was daylight savings time or standard time. With the new Apple Watch update 2.0, we are now able to customize our watch face to …
Wall St Journal recently wrote that Apple is in “exploratory” talks with Tidal, the high bit-rate streaming service I personally rate the highest in streaming music. I rate them highest, because of their “high fidelity” downloads. I can stream their music in low fidelity so that I don’t burn through my data plan, and download my …
Just finished an old article from 2014 with the authors thoughts on driverless cars. It was quite insightful especially since it was written so “long ago” in tech years. It seems that each year technology jumps in directions that we would never have imagined just 10 years ago. When the iPhone was just a dream of …
There was a TV commercial I saw recently showing a family going on vacation. The kids panic when they realize there will be no wireless service at their destination and they might actually have to talk to each other. Gasp! The HORROR!! It puts a spotlight on how the internet, social media, instant electronic …
I’ve spent about a week listening to the Apple Music free trial. I have also been a member of Tidal HiFi since Jay-Z bought them, and I subscribe to Tidal’s premium plan to enable high bandwidth downloading. I would like to preface this, by stating that I am in no way employed, connected or have prejudice with …
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My Facebook page over the last couple of days has been full of reaction to the Supreme Court’s Legalization of Gay Marriage. I have friends who are both liberal and conservative, religious and non-religious, so I’ve had a good cross-section of material expressing positivity and negativity to the ruling. I am not about to …
Today at the WWDC developers conference, Apple unveiled its new music service. Apple purchased Beats music service for 500 million dollars, and it’s headphone business for 2.5 billion back in late summer of 2014. I for one have been anxiously waiting to see what Apple magic would be built into the music app. I have been a streaming music …
I’ve been wearing the Apple Watch every day during this week at work. These days, I spend most of my work days in the office. There is a feature in the health app that reminds me to stand every hour. This can be both annoying and helpful. I guess it depends on what I might …
I FINALLY got my new stainless steel apple watch. My motivation to purchase this very expensive watch, is to use the watch in conjunction with my favorite iPad app … Foreflight! I currently have Foreflight on my iPad and iPhone and I am always amazed just how much information is literally at my fingertips in planning …
The “COZOY” thumb drive size DAC converter is on its way to me from Hong Kong and won’t arrive until the last part of June. You can find it at http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00UV8PBRI/ref=pe_385040_128020140_TE_3p_dp_1 for $129.90 with free shipping I am really looking forward to test the difference of its D/A conversion vs the iphone’s built in converter while listening …
