It’s probably just me, but an application that comes out for Android much later than it’s iOS counterpart gets a big “Thanks for treating the *open* OS like a second class citizen”. I realize that sometimes these are small dev teams, but still, it very much counts against you.

Try Mycroft, for Linux. As far as I know, the rest send everything to our corporate masters. Even some of the Mycroft stuff can be sent to search engines for some tasks, but you do have control of it.

Mill St. was bought by one of the big evil brewers. There are loads of excellent craft brewers in the area though.

I believe that Action Launcher has this as well.

Doesn’t that only do multiple *Google* accounts? I’m very much looking forward to using the FireFox containers, as they can do any accounts. Wonder if we’ll see an add-on for Chrome.

Love my HDHomeRun. I use mine with MythTV and it’s fantastic. With MythTV it actually ends up being a much more usable experience than the actual cable company PVRs in my experience.

For a platform that’s advertised by fans as “easy to use”, there sure are a huge number of article on LifeHacker on how to fix things.

I’m in Canada and use a small BC provider called BareMetal.com. Simple, reliable, and personal. They’ve quickly answered any questions I’ve had and have never tried upselling, or any other annoying behaviours. Maybe not the best there is as they’re small, but worth a mention.

I’m in Canada and use a small BC provider called BareMetal.com. Simple, reliable, and personal. They’ve quickly…

Well, at least it’s not another Apple article.

... and if it’s available for Edge (I’m a Linux user), uMatrix, the scripting white-lister. These two are life-savers.

The pink-ish berries shown are a variety of Gooseberry, I think. Both the berries and the leaves match those I’ve seen. This is one of the non-spiky varieties as well. (http://www.jennifermclagan.com/gooseberries)

... except that they consider Beats headphones “quality”.

“What I do love about Apple is its support for third-party keyboards.”

From what I’ve read, it’s no better than MP3 either. FLAC, or Opus would be the better bet. I’m ripping into FLAC from now on and coverting to something compressed like Opus when I need to. Moving to AAC would be like moving from IE6 to IE6.1.

I’m in Ottawa, Canada and I ride regardless of temperature until there’s salt on the roads ... the bikes really get eaten quickly and my current one has lots of silly chrome. I have a friend who rides down to -10 as long as there’s no ice on the roads. He actually went to his ski-patrol gig a couple of times on the…

Yap, you can do it from there too. Of course, they seem to be trying to kill Hangouts for being too useful as well.

There’s actually a very large and lively Google+ community. If ou’ve just created an account and never followed anyone or created any circle, it would seem quiet as it’s the equivalent of using FaceBook but having to friends.

You’be been able to do this fo years, starting with Google Latiutude, and with it then moving to Google Plus. It still works there too, and you can share with specific circles rather than just individual contacts. They do seem to make it harder and harder to find though, especially on the desktop client, and I don’t…

Oh, I know. They saw their irrelevance coming. Unfortunately, this is just a different flavour of “locked to carriers”.

I don’t care about Assistant, or SMS. I want a cross-platform tool that can be accesses on multiple devices. Having a service locked to only your phone continues the ability of the wireless companies to be dicks. SMS should die, as well as any service locked to a single device or platform. We really need an open,…