Spotify vs Pandora app review

Spotify vs Pandora which one is the spirit music streaming app?
Let's start with Pandora, Pandora lets you choose an artist or a genre of music and it will play song that are by the band you look up and other band that are in the same genre. Without Pandora Plus you have a 6 skips per hour.
The Pros of this app are that it opens you to a lot of new music, another pro is that you don't need a subscription(limited skips).
 The cons of this app are that you can't choose exactly what you want to listen to, you can't go to a bands/artists page and choose an album and choose a song of that album. Another con is limited skips. You can't fast forward and rewind the songs. There are ads.

Spotify is another music streaming app that is a little different than Pandora, because of the ability to choose the what artist/bands song you want to play, unless you are on mobile because than you can choose the album but not the exact song(unless you have premium). Spotify also has radios like Pandora where you can choose a band or genre for the station. Without Spotify premium you have limited skips on the radio and on mobile you can choose the exact song but can choose the album.
The pros of Spotify are that it has a galore of music that you can go through and look at and listen to unlike Pandora where everything that plays is random. You can fast forward and rewind the songs. There is a way to trick the skip limit by instead of hitting skip you fast forward the song until the end. When you have premium you can create playlist where you can listen to the music without being connected to the Internet.
Cons of this app are that if you are on your mobile device(not iPads though) and using Spotify there are some annoying restrictions like only being able to hit shuffle play on albums instead of being able to choose any song. There are ads and they are the same ads a lot and even play back to back. Also songs repeat a lot.

Overall I believe Spotify is the superior music streaming app because you have more of a choice of what you listen too so you have more variety.

Pandora - Free Music & Radio by Pandora Media, Inc.
https://appsto.re/us/PHG7q.i

Spotify Music by Spotify Ltd.
https://appsto.re/us/KSKwt.i

Poin app review

Poin is an app similar to Tumblr. In many ways they are very much alike. Poin isn't exactly a blog, but it does have a blog type feel to it. You have a page, and in your page you create "books". These books consist of only pictures, but you can add a description to the pictures as well. It's a very easy app to use and navigate, I had no problem figuring it out. However some things I don't like-
Although the app was easy to navigate, there aren't very many users on it, so everything is kind of the same. Also, people's pages were white. Now there's nothing wrong with the color white, but I would have loved to see much more color in the app, it is rather bland (aside from the pictures themselves). I still prefer tumblr over this app (I might be slightly biased, having 4 different tumblr blogs, and being a blogger for them since 2011), yet this is an app I am interested in. I'd love to see what the developers can come up with over time on how to improve it.

Apple, Google, and Microsoft: weakening encryption lets the bad guys in

    Apple, Google, Microsoft, Samsung, Twitter, Facebook, and 56 other technology companies have decided to stand together to reject calls saying that the encryption would be exploited by the bad guys. The encryption is security used to stop criminals from getting information on people and stealing their identities and getting people's bank account numbers and draining their bank accounts.  The Information Technology Industry councils chief Dean Garfield said "weakening encryption or creating backdoors to encrypted devices and data for use by the good guys would actually create vulnerabilities to be exploited by the bad guys, which would almost certainly cause serious physical financial harm across our society and our economy." Security experts have said that a man is crazy because he thinks that encrypted messaging apps should be banned.

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/nov/23/apple-google-microsoft-weakening-encryption-back-doors

Virtual Reality is a reality

Samsung has partnered up with Oculus have developed their own take on virtual reality with the Samsung Gear VR. Virtual Reality has been an idea that's been around for a while always a futuristic idea. And now their are companies making these things now but none have had too much mainstream success, maybe because of pricing or lack of features yet but now Samsung wants to try and hopefully will have a breakthrough that can bring the virtual reality world to the level that everyone has always wished for.


http://www.cnet.com/news/samsungs-new-virtual-reality-ad-makes-it-look-astonishingly-real/

Computers are learning our emotions

A student at a college in mass is trying to create a computer that can read emotions. Be able to tell when we're happy, sad, angry. He's starting off with 7 basic emotions but hopes someday it will grow more. Of course with different regions people's facial expressions when they feel one emotion might be different. We all express emotions on our face, everyday, all day, without even thinking twice of it. So many people are working on this, trying to develop it more.  Can you imagine, a computer actually knowing how you feel? The freaks me out a lot. Computers are getting more and more smart, will they outsmart us?




http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-34797189

If you've ever wanted to spray paint something with your phone as a contro.... Well here's your chance. A new device has been made that you can hook up to your phone, allowing it to control the paint. So you take this pice, and put it over the nozzle of the spray paint, select the picture, and go to town.

http://gizmodo.com/computer-controlled-spray-paint-lets-you-print-graffiti-1740003049

Companion. Theresa a new app called companion that will let your friends virtually walk you home. This app is available for android and iPhone. Basically it uses your location services, and then you type in where you're going. You then send it to some people I your contacts on your phone, and even if they don't have the app they can see how far you've gotten. There's two buttons, a "I feel nervous button" which allows you to anonymously report the areas that you feel unsafe in, and the the "call 911" button. The 911 button allows you to call police when needed, but it isn't the type of button that you can accidentally hit, it'll ask you to press it again. Once you've arrived at your destination, it'll send another message out to your friends saying that you have arrived safely.

https://www.google.com/search?q=companion+app&rlz=1C9BKJA_enUS605US605&hl=en-US&prmd=anvi&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0CAoQ_AUoBGoVChMI9MjTv--FyQIVhW4mCh3wrAg6#imgrc=w9pQX2kFBX_-_M%3A

Tech giants come together to make Lobbying Group

Tech giants Apple, Google, Amazon and others have come together to make a lobbying group. Their focus is integrating new technology in financial services as well as increasing fraud protection and increasing convenience in financial service for consumers.

http://appleinsider.com/articles/15/11/03/apple-amazon-google-others-join-forces-in-finance-technology-lobby-

Why drivers may not like new Gadgets in cars

Sometimes technology does more bother to us when it tries to make life more convinent. In a recent article by the huffington post (found here http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/andrew-tai-/new-car-technology_b_8437666.html) drivers outline why they do not like new technological features in modern cars. They go on to outline three main reasons, firstly because most features like surfing the web and built in apps, are just redundant when people can just do that on their phones with less hassle. Other reasons are that some safety features can actually be distracting when trying to drive and most drivers would chose to leave them off. Lastly these parts can be expensive, things like brake sensors, those things that are suppose to brake you car before you hit something, can be damages easily and can cost thousands of dollars to repair.

Blog post hendo 2.0

Hendo 2.0 is the latest model of a hover board. Yes like in the movie Back To The Future II in 2015 there are hover boards. They have a retail price of $10,000. This is just the start, being able to invent something that you can ride and not have to touch the ground and being small and convinent is amazing. Imagine what people with be able to invent next, maybe a hoverboard that works exactly like the movie and maybe even other types of things that hover and then cars and stuff could start flying like planes.

Drivers Push Tesla’s Autopilot Beyond Its Abilities

Tesla has invented autopilot for their new cars. It can fully control your vehicle and steer for you. There have been a few problems with it though. Sometimes is doesn't fully detect the road or other cars leading to dangerous situations. The car uses 12 ultrasonic long distance sensors. http://www.technologyreview.com/news/542651/drivers-push-teslas-autopilot-beyond-its-abilities/

Facebook giving free internet to Africa

Facebook and French satellite company Eutelsat are going to send a satellite up into space to give 14 countries in sub-Saharan Africa free internet. It is set to be sent into space in late 2016. Facebook is on a mission to connect the world. They believe that the satellite will be the start of it.

Model S electric car by Tesla

There is an electric car that was announced a while back in 2012 by a company called Tesla. I bring this up now because after three years of waiting the car is finally being released. The car is called the model S, and it's and entirely electric car capable of going from zero to sixty miles in 2.8 seconds ( I mention this because everyone won't stop bring it up, I get it it's impressive). It's designed a lot like a sports car from what I can tell, and is available in a cheaper, but slightly downgraded version. It's hard to list all the features and statistics this car has, especially because I'm not particularly into cars but this is a very interesting development for people like me who would much rather see more electric cars then the legions of gas powered ones we have to day, and if you want to find out check out the articles here:  http://mashable.com/2015/07/17/tesla-ludicrous-mode/#EK0AIDmTKgkx

And the Tesla website if you want to see other stuff they do: http://www.teslamotors.com

AT&T gets fined $100M

The FCC fined AT&T because of their so called unlimited data plan. They were being fined because for the unlimited data users if they used more than 3GB in one bill cycle that they would be getting slower data. The FCC Chairman said "Consumers deserve to get what they pay for, Broadband providers must be upfront and transparent about the services they provide. The FCC will not stand idly by while consumers are deceived by misleading marketing materials and insufficient disclosure.". So AT&T seems to have mislead customers to buy a not so unlimited data plane but now they have bumped it up to 22GB.

ios 9 jailbreak

Just recently with the release of apples new iOS 9 hackers have already released a semi jailbreak for it. I have enjoyed jailbreaking my apple devices for a long time. I am hoping they release a full unteathered jailbreak fairly soon because I would love to jailbreak my iPad Air. I really enjoy learning about coding and the way they exploit codes. http://www.ibtimes.co.in/ios-9-jailbreak-update-semijb-launches-jailbreak-script-cydia-what-pangu-taig-pp-jailbreakers-647016