Here’s a Google Maps feature I’d like to see - using the make/model of my car, estimated gas consumption and route info to tell me where I would reasonably need to fill up my car BEFORE I leave on the trip.

Installed iOS 10 beta on my nearly three-year-old 5S that’s going to be replaced in a few months.

These days, I mainly use Siri in the car as my hands-free assistant while driving. Mostly sending and reading aloud iMessages and sometimes making a note or reminder.

I’ll say this, too - probably the BEST SINGLE FEATURE that Tweetbot has is timeline sync: the ability to use Tweetbot on your iPhone and then pick up your iPad and have the app magically place you back exactly where you left off.

Yeah, the last time I switched back to Tweetbot due to what I thought were too many Twitter ads, Twitter was giving me one promoted tweet for every 10 or 12. And one day last week, I was scrolling my timeline in the morning after waking up, catching up on the overnight feed, and it was *literally* one promoted tweet…

Good piece. I’m a longtime Tweetbot user but I generally only use it these days when Twitter annoys me with too many ads. I hit that point last week when I was getting one promoted tweet every 8 organic tweets. But as great as Tweetbot is, the lack of support for basics like Twitter cards lessens the overall…

At this point, would it kill Apple to release an iMessage dealy for Windows?

My account didn’t get suspended, but Google did basically stop running the script after less than 1 full day due to the frequency of checks. So I uninstalled it.

A six-year-old article that became very handy today. While I have been using Daniel Slaughter’s Gmail POP3 script (which is excellent and I highly recommend it), that script is not yet compatible with Inbox by Google - and I’d rather have Inbox in a tab on my desktop than Gmail.

I upgraded (deliberately) my home PC to Windows 10 from Windows 7 and Windows 10 completely and utterly broke my sound. Windows forums are filled with people with the same problem, and all Microsoft could do was point you to the same help file in the website that everyone tried that didn’t help. For some reason, my…

I’m a big Tweetbot fan, but Twitter’s ever-changing feature and API restrictions means that Tweetbot is often upwards of a year behind feature-wise, and often never gets the full feature set of the native Twitter app. Heck, Tweetbot doesn’t even have proper access to Twitter cards, meaning my Twitter timeline (which…

Twitter could make this a lot easier on themselves if they’d implement cross-application timeline syncing - so that when I open Twitter on my iPhone, it automatically syncs my timeline to where I last left off from the Twitter homepage, or TweetDeck or Twitter for iPad or whatever.

ACK! $6.99 in Canada!?

For whatever reason, Facebook enabled this in my account back in late December around Christmas when they did their initial test roll out to selected users. I used it a few times since then. It works as advertised.

I really, really, really want to like Spark. But every time I put it on my iPhone, it refuses to either show notifications, or show icon badges, or show up in my notification centre, or SOMETHING. It’s so bug-ridden it’s crazy.

Just flew Vancouver to Australia, and then New Zealand back to Vancouver - 15 1/2 hours and 13 1/2 hours.

I had breakfast at his restaurant at the Linq in Vegas on my last trip - AND IT WAS GOOD! (No, seriously, it was.)

I don’t like *noise* per se, but I fall asleep much faster if there’s some kind of white noise, like a fan. I love sleeping with the fan on in the summer because the motor hum blots out all the other noise. In hotels, I’ll crank the AC fan as far as it will go to get a white noise level that will drown out the hotel…

I really love Tweetbot but find in my every day life I only tend to use it for a week or two at a time before going back to the official Twitter app because of Tweetbot’s lack of access to the full Twitter API. Plus the official Twitter app has gone from “annoyingly adequate” to “surprisingly good” (IMO).

Coke Blak was awesome. When it went away, Pepsi’s “Diet Pepsi Caramel Jazz” was a pretty good equivalent, and then it went away. No I just use coffee-flavoured Torani syrup in my Coke Zero.