Posts by Antti

Improve iPhone Battery Life With Carat

I complained about the battery life of my iPhone on Twitter a few months back and @randommman suggested Carat to me. @vilpponen You need Carat carat.cs.berkeley.edu unless you already use it :) — Jani Turunen (@randommman) April 13, 2013 The app is awesome. It’s not as finely designed as your regular consumer app, but it [...]

Awesome Mothers Day, Spent Outdoors

Haven’t blogged in ages and I need to clear my writer’s block. So here are a few photos from yesterday, mothers’ day. We spent ours outside in the woods at Kaitalampi barbecuing and later on cycling around. Awesome day, spent outside enjoying the sun.  

One-sided reporting by Helsingin Sanomat on offshore financial centres

Today, Helsingin Sanomat (largest daily in Finland), published a piece how up to half of the world’s money is in tax havens or offshore financial centres (OFCs). The story also highlighted how quickly one can setup a company in those countries. I don’t quite understand what the point of the article was, except to somewhat [...]

2 Weeks With Nokia Lumia 920 – Week 1

I haven’t had the time to write about my experience with the Lumia 920 for a while, but here’s an update. Overall, I’m still very impressed with the device. There are some small issues I’ve found that differ quite a bit and do provide a challenge in some senses for people switching from the iOS [...]

2 Weeks With Nokia Lumia 920 – Day 0

So Nokia shipped me a Lumia 920 to play around with, through their Nokia Connects program. It was supposed to have arrived yesterday already, but I had given inadequate address information so the courier wasn’t able to find me. I have to say, I had pretty high expectations for the device as I’ve been following [...]