Smartphone Upgrades, Office Productivity, and the Laptop Conundrum

The Upgrade by Lifehacker

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Tech News, News, How To, Education, Self-improvement

4.6 • 688 Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2013

⏱️ 75 minutes

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This week on the podcast we’re talking about whether it’s worth upgrading your phone every six months, how to be productive at work when everything is blocked, and which build of XBMC you should use on your Raspberry Pi. We’re also answering your questions about making your own ringtones, a good video camera app for Android, and if you should replace your laptop-desktop combo with just one powerful laptop. Looking for the show notes? You can find this episode at http://lifehacker.com/1405300681 (after 5:00 PM PT) and all episodes at http://lifehacker.com/theshow (anytime). See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to this week's episode of the Life Hacker podcast.
0:06.1	It is September 26, and this week we are talking about whether it's worth it to upgrade your phone every six months,
0:11.5	how to be productive at work when everything's blocked, and which build of XBMC you should use on your Raspberry Pi.
0:17.2	We're also answering your questions about making your own ringtones, a good video camera app for
0:21.5	Android, and if you can really replace a desktop and laptop combination with just one powerful
0:26.3	laptop. And as always, we'll be going through our favorite tips and downloads of the week,
0:30.3	so let's jump to it. Hey guys and welcome to the show. I'm Whitson Gordon. I'm Adam Dachis.
0:58.8	And with us, we have Thorin Klosowski joining us via Google Hangouts. What's up, Thorin?
1:02.5	Hey, guys.
1:03.2	How's it going up there in Seattle?
1:05.2	Wet.
1:07.0	A wet.
1:08.4	They're like, what? I'm in Seattle?
1:10.4	That's sad.
1:11.9	I don't know.
1:12.1	That's kind of where I'm at this week because I'm just surprised I remembered my name.
1:17.2	I've been eating expired vegetables all week.
1:21.2	Can I ask why?
1:23.5	Because I wasn't done eating them.
1:25.3	Oh, my God.
1:26.1	I had a lot of vegetables and, and you know, it's not like...
1:29.2	Is it because of Amazon Fresh?
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