Now hold on… when I say “bad design” here, I’m talking about bad design in the context of user experience and human-computer interaction design not the beautiful new immaterial background wallpaper graphics. The new background …
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10 Ways Delta Chat is Better than WhatsApp, Signal, and Telegram
With Facebook finally changing how WhatsApp works so that they can profit off of the users (as expected), many people are choosing to switch to other internet messaging apps like Signal & Telegram. We’ve already talked about …
Continue readingStop being naive when it comes to things like WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal, etc.
The trend today has been to stop using WhatsApp ever since the policy was updated to allow sharing your personal information with Facebook. Some are recommending switching to other centralized messaging systems like Signal or Telegram, …
Continue readingWhy are we still using Phone Numbers?
Often if you take a logic-based critical look at something that society has long taken for granted, you might see that it really doesn’t make sense in modern society. It may have made sense many …
Continue readingChronicles of a Windows user gone iPhone (2017)
If you’ve been following Pocketnow for almost 20 years, you may remember when we did numerous series of articles where one of us as an expert in one platform, would switch to a different …
Continue readingWhy are we still using instant messaging apps at all?
This article was first published on Pocketnow JANUARY 27, 2017 8:34 AM A while back, you may have seen Adam Doud’s article “A weekend with Allo: When tech geeks unite!” where a bunch of us …
Continue reading8 ways to tell if your mobile app sucks
It’s easy to tell if an app sucks when there are issues with its basic functionality. If it crashes all the time, or causes the phone to freeze, or just doesn’t respond to certain functions, …
Continue readingPhilosophy of THE MATRIX: RELOADED
Here are my ideas on the Matrix Reloaded movie. A lot of people find it confusing and decided that it is only an eye-candy film simply because it is hard to understand. I’ve found that …
Continue readingLIFE AND STRUCTURE
Numerous philosophers have sought to develop a plausible and effective account for the structure of human life. Er, rather… an account of human life as a single entity. This is inherently difficult since there is …
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