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Closing apps to save on your iPhone battery is a myth, says The Washington Post

Hey battery-minders: It’s not the apps.

Source: Closing apps to save on your iPhone battery is a myth – The Washington Post

Read an article on Washington Post saying that closing apps won’t save your iPhone battery. Unless it is some GPS navigation, Spotify playing in background or something of that kind.

As long as people are not rational beings, seems to me that if one is closing apps, saving…

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How I Tamed the Email Beast at Work - Incomplete Story in WSJ

How I Tamed the Email Beast at Work – Incomplete Story in WSJ

Alexandra Samuel has wrote a story on how she “broke free of her inbox and became more productive”

Source: How I Tamed the Email Beast at Work – WSJ

Alex wrote about how she was drowning in her emails. And then she decided to use some other apps where they are more effective- Drive, Dropbox, Evernote, Twitter, Feedly, Slack and… Yes, email. Just used in some reserved way.

For some people email is…

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Android Phone Choice

Some dude has bought Asus Zenphone 2, as he said- for budget, Android and hardware.

But these reasons to me only justify his purchase. No human being buys consumer good for rational reasons:)

Budget is not so different

Let’s check budget first- Zenphone 2 and some Nexus, let’s say, 5X. Asus is sold for $299 here and Nexus for $339 here. Like ~10% difference. This is only my first take, you might…

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Some Obvious Shortcommings in Freelancer.com

Now being a writer officially, I’ve registered in freelancer.com. Lady luck is still to come but some projects are done and some are in process.

There are features and things I love in this platform. And there are some that I dislike.

So here are the pros of freelancer.com:

number of users and projects- 18 million and 8.5 million respectively;

international platform;

suitable for different types…

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Fed Up With Anti-Google Paranoia

I’ve got into couple of anti-Google paranoid dudes. They were concerned about tracking, relying too much on Google and so on.

Seems to me that only people who have certain problems are having problems with Google (or Apple, or any other supplier or provider).

Those paranoid on tracking usually are specific people. I wouldn’t even take terrorists here because they are even more reasnoable than…

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Ultrabook Things on Amazon

Was checking for ultrabook son Amazon lately:

Source: Amazon.com: notebook – 4 GB / LED / Solid State Drive / 121 to 320 GB / 11 to 11.9 Inches / …: Electronics

You know, Apple MacBook Air isn’t the most expensive product in it’s category. It’s like $899 vs Asus Taichi $999 or HP Elitebook $1,369.99

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Cutting-edge science could make mental illness less of a guessing game | The Washington Post

http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/national/2016/02/19/brain-hacking-the-minds-biology/?tid=sm_fb

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How To Choose Android Apps- Part 2

Now it is time for news apps. Sources say there is a lot of popular news apps: http://goo.gl/mSkvN

Lots of apps are featured- like NYT, Reddit, Buzzfeed, Feedly, Flipboard, BBC, CNN, Yahoo and etc.

But again- unless you don’t need or rely on special features- why not configure default OS apps for news?

For example, Android has Play Newsstandapp by default. Here you can pick your topics, where…

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How To Choose Apps For Your Android Phone

Recently I got into trouble with Coursera application. OK, problem was more constant than recent, but here it is. My beloved app was draining battery even when not used (10%) and was also using mobile data in background. Which kinda was making me unhappy. I’ve decided to reinstall Coursera again.

But here’s what came to my mind. A lot of people use most popular apps for their everyday use. Which…

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Facebook Messenger Adds Bloat

Everyone using Facebook Messenger already know about so called new feature- Spotify music sharing in it:

http://techcrunch.com/2016/03/03/facebook-messenger-spotify/

To me it seems like another useless bloat. Why? Couple of simple things:

first- a messenger should be a messenger, you should improve it but not by adding questionable features. One right example to do this- “where are you” featurein…

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Collaboration Problems Solved Easily

Another day, another disappointment with someone’s lack of collaboration skills.

I was trying to join a community to learn some skills. No, not collaboration, different ones. Some guy posted on Facebook an invitation to join their Skype conversation and learn the skill together with other members. And yeah I was tagged in a comment.

What happened next was that I had to give my email address and…

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Google Got Tools

I was surprised today when my friend told me she doesn’t use Google Hangouts and doesn’t use and has never heard of Google Drive.

Why was the talk? Because she was on Facebook and I was on Google. I dropped her link to appstore to install Hangouts and we were able to communicate on my favourite app.

Situation to solve was that she had to prepare lab experiments plan to her doctorate supervisor…

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"China's credit rating negative"- Moody's

“China’s credit rating negative”- Moody’s

“Moody’s Investors Service cited a weakening of fiscal metrics and a continuing fall in foreign exchange reserves for its decision.”

Source: Moody’s lowers outlook on China’s credit rating to negative from stable

Which doesn’t surprise me at all. China was competitive while it’s workforce cost was low. And it served as a production site for the World’s economy- USA, Japan and EU. Of course during…

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A Writer

So yeah, I’m a writer now. Not only writing here on a personal blog, but having a tax ID for writing too. Took me 2 days to get it:)

Why writing? Because my psychoanalyst told me to write. Joking:) But seriously- I was pretty good at writing in school. Unfortunately I went for engineering in university. Hated it. Engineering is OK for my until it’s inside the computer. Otherwise I don’t like all…

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Facebook Plans To Put Ads In Your Messenger | TechCrunch

Techcrunch was writing that Facebook is preparing some way to monetize their chat app:

http://techcrunch.com/2016/02/18/facebook-messenger-ads/

I have mixed feelings on that. I wouldn’t expect users would be hapy to get any ads. Facebook claims that ads would be only allowed in those chats where a user contacts a business page voluntarily. And that they will work it out to make ads really…

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Why Millennials Have Stopped Loving Facebook | Inc.com - Or Did They?

Why Millennials Have Stopped Loving Facebook | Inc.com – Or Did They?

Just read an article on INC, saying, that millenials have stopped loving facebook:

http://www.inc.com/chris-matyszczyk/why-millennials-have-stopped-loving-facebook.html

I already wrote an article saying that Facebook is for old people now earlier.

First answer from me on the question would be- becaus their parents are on Facebook. No teen would like to use same things his or her parents use.…

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The Best New Feature from Google Docs I've always wondered is there a big difference between creating text by typing and by voice input.

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