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How to Setup an iPhone or iPad (iOS 8)
So you have a fancy new iPhone or iPad with iOS 8 and you are all ready to set it up? Good that is what I am here to help you with.Setting up any iOS device has become a fairly simple process, if you...
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How to use iCloud Keychain and find your saved passwords
And now we are going to talk once again about a very useful, but often not understood, function of the iPhone and iPad: iCloud Keychain.What is it?iCloud Keychain is Apple's built in password generator...
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Pebbledoro, a Pebble Watchapp review
Having a Pebble smartwatch is a fun and nostalgic experience for me. Why? The joy of having a grayscale screen that only a few other nerds have and trying to find extremely useful apps in a very simple...
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Meet the Mormons, Advanced Review
I was recently privileged to attend an advanced screening of the new movie Meet the Mormons. This is the first theatrically released film ever produced by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day...
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Boundaries, the Pomodoro Technique, and Productivity
Warning: I am writing about a topic that I have yet to master, as such these are musings, not dogma.Some people are more productive than others. I think we can take that as fact.Sometimes each of us is...
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Technology Quotes from October 2014 LDS General Conference
Every six months after the LDS Church's General Conference, I compile together all the quotes I can find that talk about technology or social media. As a member of the Church I feel it is important to...
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How to create keyboard shortcuts on an iPhone or iPad
Do you have to type the same thing over and over again? Maybe it's your username, maybe it's a question you get asked all the time, maybe it's your birth date, maybe it's a hashtag. Whatever it is, it...
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How to delete apps on an iPad or iPhone
So you downloaded an app that looked cool, but it turned out to be pretty dumb or it crashed all the time, so you want to get rid of it. How do you do it?The process is actually very simple:Go to the...
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The dangers of consumption
Once Tuberculosis was one of the most deadly killers in the world, and during that time it was commonly referred to by a different name: Consumption. This was because it would decimate the infected...
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With the introduction of iOS 8 and OS X Yosemite has come a little heralded, but incredibly important, new ability to make an iPad or iPhone screencast on a Mac with no third party software. In the...
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Why the Smartwatch Will Change the World (for the better)
It might seem like a big claim to say that the smartwatch will change the world, but at this point nobody can deny that major technologies have completely altered the way we do things. The refrigerator...
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Using Dvorak keyboard layout in iOS 8
As most of you know I have been waiting for many a moon for a Dvorak keyboard on iOS. I think that layout is far better then QWERTY. As a side note I had to type on a QWERTY a couple days ago and my...
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Game Review: LostWinds
I don't discuss a lot of games on this blog, mostly because I am focused on using technology to be more productive, not less. But that doesn't mean I don't enjoy a good game when I find one and have a...
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Life at double speed: How to learn more by listening twice as fast
Learning is something that it seems quite certain we will never complete. For the life long learner there will never be enough time to discover, let alone study, everything that they may want to. This...
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Control Center in iOS
Control center is one of the most useful features in iOS. Its purpose is to give you easy access to system settings that you may need to access quickly or easily from anywhere on your iPhone or...
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Choosing the Least Invasive Technology
In the medical field there is this idea of minimally invasive surgery. Do the least amount you have to in order to achieve the desired result. I have been bouncing this idea around for a while of how...
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Book Review: iPhone Only Photography
How many pictures do you take with your iPhone?The answer is probably a lot.How many of those pictures turn out the way you wanted?The answer is probably not so many. I guess if we are going to spend a...
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The Law of the Harvest
Here's the deal, you cannot achieve the results that other people have achieved without doing the things that they do. I'm really tired of hearing people say things like:"well that just doesn't work...
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Watchapp Review: Pebble Music Player
One of the best stock benefits of a Pebble smartwatch is being able to control you music or other audio from your wrist. In fact I find this so useful that I have it set as one of my two shortcut...
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App Review: Paper by FiftyThree
Name: Paper by FiftyThreeType: DrawingPrice: FreeStars: 5/5For: iPad OnlyThis is, hands down, the best drawing app I have ever used.Paper has been around for a long time, like thousands of years....
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Useful Mac Keyboard Shortcuts [Infographic]
One of the best ways to speed up your work on a computer and increase your productivity is to learn keyboard shortcuts. But learning shortcuts can be hard at first until it becomes muscle memory to use...
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Pebble Time: First Thoughts
A couple days ago Pebble announced that it will be bringing out a brand new model of its smartwatch line, the Pebble Time. The have made it available on Kickstarter first. That should not come as a...
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Movie Review: Freetown
Title: FreetownGenre: Historical DramaRating: PG-13 (Thematic situations involving violence)Stars: 4/5Official Synopsis: Caught in the middle of a brutal civil war, six Liberian missionaries in...
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What was talked about most at General Conference?
Now that the General Conference transcripts are available I have taken all the text and created a word cloud to determine what was talked about the most. Here is the result:Created using Jason Davies'...
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Technology Quotes from General Conference: April 2015 Edition
Every six months after the LDS Church's General Conference, I compile together all the quotes I can find that talk about technology or social media. As a member of the Church I feel it is important to...
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