So last Friday I decided to see what life on the web would be like if I ditched Chrome as my daily browser to go with Firefox. See here. Before I set out to really test what Firefox could do I needed to look into Firefox’s sync capabilities. The best part about Chrome is the seamlessness of syncing across desktop and mobile. I have two laptops — a System76 Lemur Ultra (my work mach... »
I always like those tech series where a writer does something brave: Use nothing but Chrome OS for a week or (gasp!) Ubuntu for a month. As much as I like these pieces, I’m not all that crazy about putting myself through social experiments. I’ve already tried living in Fedora and I don’t last much longer than a week. I didn’t last more than 10 minutes in Windows 8. I don&... »
Although I do nearly all of my news reading online, I've never been a big fan of Google Reader. I developed a habit long ago for simply bookmarking my favorite sites and visiting them when I had the urge to check in. For regular news I use Google News and have lately mixed into that routine Pulse Reader. Google reader seemed like a good way to organize all my favorite sites, but I was never craz... »