Category: Android

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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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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Danielle's disembodied keyboard

Technology does NOT ‘have your back’

A sky full of beautiful stars was spread out above us as the day turned gradually to night.  Myself, my wife, our young son, our very young nephew, and my father-in-law had just finished up an afternoon of canoeing.  How were we spending our evening?  We had planned on roasting marshmallows over a campfire and

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