Tag archives for apps
Language Learning Apps, Revisited: 34 Products + Bonus Links
More than three years ago, I discussed a few apps meant to help you learn a foreign language; while I still believe the best way to learn a language is to use printed manuals with audio…
Internet Radio, Mon Amour
Listening to dozens of Internet radio streams is my contribution to increasing the carbon footprint. But it's not my fault that everything now is using Internet bandwidth--YouTube videos, Smart TVs, mostly everything that isn't analog anymore…
Nostalgia & Fun With Calculators
Despite having developed a dependency of my ~200 installed Android apps and ~150 installed Windows programs, I still use a hand-held scientific calculator. Most of the time I'm using it for innocuous tasks--making sense of the…
Learning a language in 200 hours?
German is an impossible language. Right after I got the Zertifikat Deutsch B1, I forgot half of what I've learned. This is in part because all the methods and textbooks are stupid--but I'm not going to…
Guessing the weather forecast
Weather apps: a tricky topic; most people wouldn't understand my obsession with weather apps and widgets. But I had to move the section about weather apps out of my post regarding the Android apps I'm using…
How I Came to Hate Nova Launcher
This is nothing serious–take it as a grumpy rant on the opposite side of "Nova Launcher may be the best thing that ever happened for Android." Because I also hate all the other Android launchers! I…
Android Apps: What I Use
No matter what I tried, this retarded Marshmallow performs "Optimizing app 1 of 1" after each reboot–a reboot that's a bit slow at that. And it's not a rooted device. So I guess I'll need to…
The Verdict on Wiko Robby—Weeks Later
It's time that I draw some conclusions with regards to my experience with Wiko Robby. Maybe someone from Wiko will read this, but I won't bother to write in French for them. So, this is ending…
Low-RAM Marshmallow—One Week Later
After one week with Wiko Robby, it's time for an updated report. Yes, living with 1 GB of RAM is perfectly acceptable once you're not a gamer. Yet, there are a few caveats. First of all,…