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A finger and a phone is a real sketchbook. It is just a different sketchbook from the one a pen and a tablet give you.

Four bulbs, three apps, two accounts and a light switch nobody trusts any more.

Most songs die between the bus stop and the front door. The phone in your pocket is the fix.

Holding a rail with one hand rules out most of the games people recommend for a commute.

A board game night survives distance surprisingly well, as long as the game allows a move a day.

A warm phone is normal. A phone that is hot while doing nothing is a symptom.

Blocking numbers one at a time is a losing game. The number is different tomorrow.

The second phone in the glovebox is more useful than the first one on the dashboard.

The map app gets you from A to B. It rarely tells you which ticket to buy.

The best baby tracker is the one both parents can use half asleep with one hand.

The phone will be in the bedroom regardless. The question is what it is doing there.

Identification apps are right most of the time. Know which mistakes are harmless and which are not.

A meal plan is a shopping list with a reason behind it.

Some evenings the point of a game is that nothing in it can really go wrong.

The best writing in mobile games is rarely found in the games with the biggest budgets.

Erasing the phone is the last step, not the first. Once it is wiped, you can no longer track it.

A speed test on its own tells you that it is slow, not why.

The right marketplace depends on the item, not on which app you already have.

A calculator does not need an account. Somehow this became a controversial position.

The problem is rarely the app you chose. It is the advertisement inside it that leads somewhere else.

The most useful accessibility features on Android are built in, unlabelled, and almost nobody knows they are there.

No advertising, no account, no analytics. Also no support line and no guarantee anyone is still working on it.

A Lite app is not a smaller app. It is a different set of decisions about what to leave out.

Do not sign in to your accounts until the phone has passed four checks. One of them cannot be undone afterwards.