Blog

Welcome to my blog. I'm trying to post things whenever I get inspired to write something. Sometimes it's more often, and sometimes not so much. The subject can vary quite a lot, but it tends to be mostly about tech.

I don't have any commenting enabled at the moment, because no one really comments anything except spammers, but if you have any thoughts on anything, feel free to email me at niklas@uplink.fi.

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Blog Posts

ChromeCastic

Entertainment

I got myself one of them Chromecast last weekend. It was a part of my bigger entertainment strategy. For the longest time we haven't had a TV. For a while we had a basic Epson projector that served fairly well, but it was expensive to run both in electricity and the eventual lamp change, so when we...

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Browsers, browsers.

Tech

I've been using Firefox as my main browser for the last 6 months, but I recently decided to try out Chrome again as my desktop Firefox was getting a bit slow and buggy. (I was running the Aurora build, which might have something to do with it.) I just thought it would be a good idea to try out chrom...

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Galaxy Nexus Rant

Tech

Just when I thought I would take a break in my google rants for a while, Google releases Android 4.4 KitKat and promptly announces that they will not be upgrading the Galaxy Nexus to it.

I don't know about you, but in my opinion the lifetime of any phone should be 2 years plus the active marketing...

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Some clarifications

Tech

I noticed that my last post about Android might have come of as a little too hostile towards Android and Google. I really am a quite happy Android user/developer, and my next phone will most probably be an Android as well. If I ever buy a tablet, it will probably be an Android. I use Googles service...

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The state of Android

Tech

First of all I want to mention that I use Android, I have since version 1.5. It's easily the best mobile OS on the market at the moment. Having said that, however, I have are some concerns about the whole state of Android.

Andoid is open source

It's true that android is open source, but only if...

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