At the beginning of this year, I made a resolution to myself, that I would learn how to cook a respectable meal. At the time, I had no knowledge of how to cook, yet I was tiring of the bland, prepackaged meals for dinner. In addition, I knew that my last year in college meant that my days eating my …
At the time of this writing, it is 48 hours after the fallout of Gmail’s botched April Fools’ Day prank. In case you haven’t heard of it, Gmail basically introduced a joke button, the “Mic Drop.” Upon hitting that button, Gmail would cleverly attach a microphone drop GIF to your email, like the one below: Little did they know that …
January 31, 2016 was my first time attending a Seattle Symphony concert this season. It was also my first time attending their annual Celebrate Asia concert, which is now in its eighth year. After traveling over the past few months and attending concerts by the Minnesota Orchestra in Minneapolis, and the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra in San Francisco, I was glad …
If you’ve been on the Internet long enough, you’ve probably heard buzz about how hackers can spy on you using your webcam. This is not just some scare story. The truth is that hacking into webcams has been demonstrated over and over. Even so, I’ve always thought that such webcams were accessible only by elite government-employed computer geeks. It turns out that …
This post is part of a two-part series on Inbox by Gmail, and my experience using the product. If you have not tried Inbox by Gmail, and you are a Gmail user, you should give it a shot. This service was released one year ago to the date of this post, and since then has gotten favorable reviews from the …