5 Reasons You Should Use Signal App
I was sitting in a crowded Austin diner back in late 2019, nursing a lukewarm black coffee, when my buddy slid his phone across the table. He looked genuinely spooked. We had just spent twenty minutes verbally arguing about the merits of a highly…
When Were Cellphones Invented
Standing on the corner of Sixth Avenue and 53rd Street in Manhattan, clutching a beige, brick-shaped piece of plastic that weighed roughly two and a half pounds. It was April 3, 1973. The wind was probably biting, as New York springs tend to be, but…
10 Cool Ways to Use USB OTG on Android
Picture this. You are stuck on a sweltering tarmac at DFW airport, your flight is delayed by three hours, and your primary laptop just died. The battery simply gave up the ghost. That wouldn’t normally be a catastrophe, except a highly anxious client is…
What Does Background App Refresh Mean
You unplug your phone at 7 AM. The screen happily displays 100%. By the time you pour your second cup of coffee, you glance down and see a red battery icon screaming 15%. Panic sets in. You haven’t watched a single video today. You haven’t…
What Is Mail Drop? How to Use Mail Drop on iPhone and Mac
You just hit send. The progress bar crawls across the bottom of your screen, agonizingly slow, until finally—bam. A nasty little popup ruins your morning. “Message Size Violation.” Your email server flat-out rejected that massive folder of…
Apple Discontinued the Newton 25 Years Ago: Here’s What Happened to It Since
If you dig around in a hot, poorly ventilated attic long enough and manage to unearth an original Apple Newton MessagePad, your fingers will immediately stick to the back of it. The soft-touch rubberized coating Apple used in the mid-nineties…
What Is RTT Calling On Android and How Do I Use It?
You’re staring at your phone screen while the person on the other end of the line is standing in what sounds like a wind tunnel fighting a lawnmower. Or maybe you physically can’t speak right now. You desperately need to communicate, but hanging up to…
How to Grant Permissions Using ADB in Android
You stare at the screen of your phone, the battery draining faster than water through a cheap paper cup, and that shiny new automation app you just paid four bucks for is aggressively demanding something called WRITE_SECURE_SETTINGS. You tap the toggle.…
Should You Buy a Matte Screen Protector for Your Phone?
The sun was beating down on the patio table at a ridiculous angle last Tuesday, right as I desperately needed to approve a final wireframe before catching my flight. I was squinting so hard my face hurt. I tilted my phone left. Nothing. I tilted it…