(Life of an Accounting Droid) Life of an Accounting Droid Episode 10 Contra Account

This week, Contra Accounts preludes the news for this week. In the news, Google updates their logo, Android Wear is now compatible with iOS, Paypal goes personal, and more! For the entertainment, a new section for the news and what I've been watching, Google Search has a random new feature, the TV show review is the series finale for Falling Skies, Reborn, and the Star Wars review is Form VI The Diplomat's Form.

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(Generic Live Show!) Generic Live Show #27: "We Can Not Solve Your Odd Saftey Conundrum"

Slow news week but still did a show regardless! We talk about how goods and service taxes will be on all online products as of 2017 and netflix's major pirate competitor! Also, we had a selection of headlines!  

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Official: Australia set to charge GST on all online purchases from 2017: 

http://www.cnet.com/au/news/australia-gst-reform-online-purchases-2017/

'Netflix for pirates' in Hollywood's sights

http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/digital-life-news/netflix-for-pirates-in-hollywoods-sights-20150902-gjd4me.html

(The Geek I/O Show) The Geek I/O Show: Episode 119 / The Mana Pool #6: "Constitutional bonus"

This week on The Geek I/O Show, we grabbed our giant tube of novelty D4 to kicked back to have a level three upgrade round.  Our characters move from larpers to legit, and then we hit you with the paragraph.

Welcome to cavelands, adventurers. Davdak added some sweet skills to his sparkly belt, Saltaba got FIREd up, Dricu filled his spell slots, and Dhalgren stopped being lawful good (WHUT?!).  The party is prepared for the next leg of their quest.  Will it be enough?  Plus! The Summer Movie Smackdown is over!  Who won awards and took home the gold?  You can now take care of your fart gas.

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The Geek I/O Show: Episode 119 Show Notes

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(Life of an Accounting Droid) Blog - Vysor (Beta)

When I first thought about how I would do a review for this new Chrome app, I wasn't sure how I would show it to reflect how cool it is. Then I realized that I could do a quick screencast from Visor to show it off. Yes, it is a bit of Visor-ception but the video is controlled from my PC whie using Koush's own app, Mirror to record the screencast.

The app is quite simple to setup. Once developer tools are enabled in Settings, adb mode needs to be enabled. the ADB drivers also need to be installed if you are on Windows (and I presume Mac as well). but shouldn't be hard to find as a link is provided in the Chrome app and on Koush's website. Once those are installed and adb mode is enabled over USB, plug the phone in (and let the drivers install if they haven't been installed before). From your app menu (depending on if you use Windows, Mac or Linux), open the Visor app, find your device and make the connection. After a short wait a new window will open showing your device's screen which can be controlling with your mouse. Text can be entered via your keyboard for data entry.

For me the response from the PC and my device is a bit sluggish but not to the point of being unusable. I'm chalking it up to the beta status but overall it is worth checking out and using, especially if you prefer doing everything from your device. Gaming is decent enough for regular games. I tested it with Star Wars Commander which seemed to hold up well enough.

As far as general usefulness, it does make it quite seamless to be able to do everything from your mobile device without having to login to everything on a different device or worry about keeping your accounts in sync, this is the way to go. It also gets around not being able to send text messages from a desktop PC as they are still being sent from your mobile device.

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Star Wars Commander on my Fire Phone via Vyser Beta on ChromeOS

Star Wars Commander on my Fire Phone via Vyser Beta on ChromeOS