The Miller Family

Category: Personal Tech

  • Microsoft is eating my iPhone

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    I notice that apps with a Microsoft provenance take up 1/5th of the apps on my first two screens. 25% if you count the fact that the mail and contacts apps are connected to MS-Exchange. I’m particularly liking the Scan to OneDrive feature that transforms photos of documents or whiteboards into very clean looking document-like…

  • Poisoned Apple

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    There is actually some valuable information here, buried at the end of paragraph six. The internet stopped working yesterday. Or rather, my view into it. As the single most important basic utility in this house, and doing research for our business plan on a Friday afternoon, that’s a big problem. We have lots of Apple…

  • Hello LinkedIn, “Have we met?”

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    Sometimes, the use of profiling and big data on the web can be kind of creepy.   Like this morning when I happened to search some news about a class action suit against Coach for demanding customers’ email addresses.  Googled “Coach lawsuit” and followed a link to an ABC Local News article, and there was…

  • Don’t deny me internet

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    I’ve spent several hours this weekend trying to fix the internet. No, not fixing the Internet, like fomenting twitter protests against Google’s disregard of my privacy settings in Safari nor fighting moronic legislation like SOPA.  I just needed to get the bits flowing into and out of the house. Around the Miller household, access to…

  • Travellin’ Tech

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    We travelled light. One 22-inch suitcase per person + 1 carry-on bag.  But we were sufficiently equipped in terms of technology.  There were a couple of things that really stood out as stars: Nokia N8 – Navigation and PhotographyI can’t imagine how travelers managed before the advent of GPS.  Actually, I know: it involves lots…