Author: Luke G.

Huawei Mate 9: issues installing some apps from Google Play Store

The day finally came. I bought a Chinese-branded phone.  And. It. Is. AWESOME.  6GB RAM, 128GB internal storage.  It’s enough to make a person drool. So what’s my first step on getting my new phone set up?  Installing my apps, of course!  That’s where my great plan hit a snag.  I noticed that I could

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Cr48: Use FreedomPop Global SIM Kit for mobile data

Owners of the Cr48 were given 100MB per month of mobile data on Verizon’s network during the beta-testing period.  Here’s how to change your Cr48 to use FreedomPop

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Review: KeySmart 2.0 — Initial Impressions and Assembly

Wisdom is said to increase with age and experience.  However, the quantity of keys a person has to carry also seem to increase with the natural progression of our age and maturity.  Pocket size, however, does not increase.  Therefore it is only natural that at some point one’s collection of necessary keys will have increased beyond

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Patch: [Famicom Disk System :: Super Mario Bros. 2] Restore original Spiny Egg behavior

If you were to fling a ball from a moving aircraft, would you expect it to fall straight down? Or instead would you imagine it would be affected by things such as momentum, velocity, and trajectory?

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Re-learning Japanese With “Human Japanese”

What might a family of three choose to do for fun?  Play board games?  Travel?  No, that’s far too routine!  How about using technology to learn a foreign language which has no apparent similarity to their native language?  Now we’re talking!  🙂

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