All my problems with the Xbox One S

The damn thing

I joined the latest generation in game consoles about 10 months ago, with the purchase of an Xbox
One S, and today, after an especially annoying sequence of interactions with said machine, I decided to put together a list of the things that are wrong with it.

In this list you'll find mild annoyances, personal preferences/disagreements and bat shit crazy stuff that I can't understand how in the name of Clarckson can even be able to exist in this world.

The first website about mobile phones in Brazil

I fell in love with mobile phones when I noticed that it was possible to have just one device to
communicate, take pictures and, above all, take my music with me everywhere. Then I started researching and I noticed that we, in Brazil didn’t have any dedicated source of information about these wonders of technology.

I could get all the information I needed from abroad, because I already understood English, but I couldn’t get the specifics of our local market: different phone specifications, prices and the real availability of models in my country. We had some tech sites announcing some big phones being launched around the world and when they got to us, and that was basically it.

Deezer review: trying this music from the web thing

I love music. I don't have a preference, i get lost in it. There is so much good stuff around the world. And i love technology. Maybe i always loved it, but what it brung to me experiencing music made me love it even more and see its potential.

I resisted having a mobile phone in the beginning, mostly because i didn't wanted the obligation of being reachable at all times. I would have to be giving excuses for not picking up a call or not responding to texts, for not letting people know what i was doing. I didn't want to lose that power. Although we are kind of used to this problem nowadays, it still brings many discussions, so i guess you see what i mean.

Boom2: the Mac app that´ll blow your head off (your senses and literally, almost)

So i got this tip of the Boom application to boost my Macbook Pro audio. A simple app that would increase the system´s overall volume, solving annoyances like that YouTube video that you can´t hear quite well.

It turns out that this app was a nightmare, giving me more headaches and others real trouble.

How to send an iTunes playlist to somebody

So i wanted to send a new playlist that i´ve made to someone. It´s an old idea that i was putting
together and needed to share with a person that had the same taste.

But i didn´t want to get every song out of their folders and put them in another folder to send away. Gladly the answer was easier than i ever imagined.

Upgrading my Macbook´s HD with SSD and searching for expanding: memory stick or microSD?

YES, i finally am on the solid state of drive, with much more speeeeeeeeeed! I´ve just exchanged the original 500gb HD with a Sandisk Ultra Plus with 256gb and the hole left in my storage capacity left me wandering. And wondering, of course.

Now i´m hunting for some extra space for "stuff", aiming for the cheapest way to have some of my capacity back.

Why i´ll wait for the new iPhone 6S to finally get the screen i deserve

Apple will announce the new iPhones next week, at an event that will probably see the evolution of the "sixes", a new Apple TV and some other minor stuff.

When i gave Android up for being too unreliable, almost two years ago, my major regret was the absence of a bigger screen, but i was so pleased with the new experience, that it wasn't a deal breaker.

I started with an iPhone 4S and my immediate problem was the 8gb storage, the only option at the time. So i moved to a 5C in just about 3 months, yet still missing the gorgeous body of the 4th iteration of Apple´s mobile.

Workflow iOS app: much fun, very integration and my first good one (Tweet a Gif)

My workflows

The primary thing that i miss from Android is automating stuff - but it won´t make me come back to that mess. Probably because it makes a mess, thus rendering this ability not useful, that kind of practicality is not available on iPhones (and this is the same reason i do not jailbreak - see an example from today).

I´ve tried IFTTT but it mainly, or totally, only share things. Now i tried the new Workflow app, that doesn't give the full liberty as an Android but is worth the $4,99 price tag.

Review: Yogo Battery Case for iPhone 5c

Finally i got the case with a built-in battery, or the battery case like some call it, for my iPhone 5c. I think this is a very useful accessory for those days that i did not plan a night out or was on the street for longer and the iPhone did not follow my energy.

I tought about buying this in China, a generic one, but some searching in Google showed me reports of poor reliability and durability of those models, so i went for this, sold in an Apple Premium Resseller.

MusiXmatch: get your lyrics rolling on iPhone and Android

This is the best app that i've tested to see the lyrics of the song i'm listening to in my mobile phone. MusiXmatch is not perfect, it annoyed me a lot in the past but is the best i know.

What i would like to have in the upcoming iPhone 6

Rumour-mill is going crazy about the new iPhone, or iPhones, that will launch in 2014 and i have some ideas of what i´d want in it, or them, but i´m not very interested in the big one, if it comes.

And i´m not talking about crazy stuff like 10x zoom camera, holographic screen or rocket launchers. Just some minor enhancements for a daily use.