The Blog
The Goods: Apple Event Roundup
Apple held their first product release event of the year on Tuesday, but here’s the stuff you’ll actually want to know.
TV or Projector?
We’re over a year after the world stopped, if you’re like us at the DMGT you may be getting a bit sick of sitting on your OK-for-non-pandemic-times-but-now-not-good couch night after night, watching your decent-ish TV, working through all sorts of shows and movies but missing that “event” feeling of watching things on the big screen. We at the DMGT deeply feel you on this, and wanted to put together a year 2 list of ways to bring the big screen home.
Back to School Tech: 2020 Budget Edition
While Summer technically runs through most of September, you probably consider the true end of Summer when class is back in session. At least, that’s how I used to treat it, and typically Labor Day weekend was the last hurrah. These days are different, however, and most of you now start classes in August (I had no idea that’s when most colleges started back when I was kicking it on Chicago’s South Side). Yet, as bittersweet as Summer’s end is, there’s still some excitement to a new academic year. Maybe it’s time for a new backpack, maybe you want to show off the shiny new iPhone, or more challenging courses mean you need new computer hardware. Let’s do that on a budget.
Curated: Monitors
At the start of April, a couple of weeks into the grasp of COVID-19, I wrote a post for some home office essentials in order to make your new work from home reality a bit more comfortable. While I provided some insight into why a monitor is good for both your posture and productivity, I kind of left it at that in order to keep things simple and accessible. However, there’s more to an additional display beyond visual real estate, and depending on your situation and use case, we can start looking into specialized features. So, while I know it’s been a while, here’s my second entry into the Curated series.
I’m going to break this down into 4 personas: the digital content creator, the gamer, the content consumer, & the office worker. As with everything, there are nuances and your own preferences to keep in mind, but from a high level, these are what I believe to be the demographics for consumer electronics. I’ll include my personal overall choice at the end, and will point out any alternatives for different budgets.
Naughty Dog Leaks & Game Studio Reputations
I’m going to start this off as a gamer and say: leaks suck. They’re particularly devastating for story driven games like The Last of Us Part 2. I can’t imagine how crushing that must feel to everyone that has worked on a project for so long, only to have parts of it revealed outside of the intended scope of a full game delivered to the hands of players. It’s also just not cool to all the fans looking forward to a fresh experience. There’s no win here. Even if you’re on the camp that believes that “oh this will save me from buying the game”, it’s about the journey, not the destination, remember? That doesn’t make a leak any less disappointing.
It's Time to Start Washing Your Phone. And Wallet. And Keys.
It’s time we clean the other daily items we carry on us on top of washing our hands.
Curated: Headphones
Ever since I really discovered music I have been obsessed. First, by soundtracks from video games like Megaman X, Sonic, Final Fantasy, then by TV & Movies like Dragonball Z, The Lion King, A Goofy Movie, moving into radio mainstream like N*Sync (fun fact, no strings attached was the first album I asked my parents to buy me), Oasis, & Eminem, and finally learning that my now very religious father was once a metal head and discovering Metallica, Nirvana, The Scorpions, and Linkin Park. Now, by no means do I have a masters in the history of music, to this day I continue to learn the roots of where a lot of my current favorite artists draw inspiration from, but my fascination with music continues to evolve, even reaching into technical audio production and creation, not just music.