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The multitasking interface in iPadOS 15 is not aging well for me
It didn’t take too long after I installed iPadOS on my iPad mini 5 for me to restore order to my app-icon grid–even if I’m still tweaking that arrangement and dreading the moment when the next iPad...
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Late or never Android updates remain a problem
Here’s yet another unintentional benefit of my shattering my Pixel 5a’s screen last weekend: an opportunity to reacquaint myself with how slowly many Android smartphone manufacturers still ooze out...
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Google Bard has had a fuzzy sense of my Washington Post career
Rejection hurts, but does it hurt more or less when a faceless conversational artificial-intelligence chatbot has done the rejection? And when the rejection comes in the form of erasing a large chunk...
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Thanks, MetroHero
The app that for more than seven years has stamped my smartphone as a D.C.-area device stopped working Saturday. But while I’ll miss having MetroHero on my phone, its utility will live on–not only in...
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My changing browser budget
The application that I use more often than any other on my computers has probably stayed constant for the last quarter of a century: the Web browser. But which browser I use has shifted a lot as the...
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The e-mail use case unacknowledged at Gmail: showing only unread messages
My version of Inbox Zero is not having no messages at all in my inbox–no mail account I open lasts in that mythical state more than its few seconds–but having no unread messages in an inbox. That is a...
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OS updates aren’t what they used to be–which may be boring but is probably okay
Procastination comes easy to me, but that usually hasn’t held up installing major operating-system updates. I typically download new mobile-OS editions within a few days of their release, while I’ve...
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This month’s smartphone snafu: wayward Google Wallet behavior
Three weekends ago, my phone did something weird when I tried using it to pay for a few farmers-market purchases: nothing. The Google Wallet app functioned like usual when I opened it and picked the...
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Staying in touch with friends at SXSW is more of a messaging mess than ever
AUSTIN My phone has been buzzing with new-message notifications since I woke up way too early Friday morning to fly here for SXSW. That’s the fault not of my moderately overloaded social schedule, but...
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Hype cycle meets rinse cycle: does my dishwasher really need a mobile app?
Years later than you might have expected, given my line of work, I’ve finally hit the dubious milestone of owning a major appliance with its own Internet Protocol address and mobile app–the Bosch...
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