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Introducing the Camp NaNoWriMo Writing Log [Free Download]

Mattias Ahlvin Posted on March 29, 2017May 21, 2017

Camp NaNoWriMo is once again approaching. Writers throughout the world are gearing up for a month of intense writing. Outlines have been drafted, background material researched and characters crafted. There are just hours left until the frenzy begins. The goal: write a novel in a month. For those that have participated in Camp NaNoWriMo or […]

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Exploring More Short Fiction With Chat Stories By Tap

Mattias Ahlvin Posted on March 16, 2017March 16, 2017

A few months ago, I explored what I labeled microfiction using an app called Talehunt. Today, I’m about to explore yet another short fiction style that may be on the upswing: chat stories. Most of you that read this have used SMS, Facebook Messenger, Twitter, Google Hangouts, Snapchat or any of the other chat apps […]

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The Tools of A Writer – Writing On The Go With JotterPad

Mattias Ahlvin Posted on March 13, 2017

For those of us that write, finding the time to jot down ideas throughout the day is as important as writing a story. These little nuggets collected from random thoughts often become the seeds of our next great story. The methods we use to record these little nuggets naturally vary from writer to writer, depending […]

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Manuskript – The Open Source Writing Tool for Writers

Mattias Ahlvin Posted on December 30, 2016

As I do my best to come up with fiction that is interesting to read, the bit about transferring what’s in my mind to a sentence, a paragraph, a page, a chapter and then finally a book, well, that part is also very important. After all, without writing, there wouldn’t be that much around to […]

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Exploring The World Of Microfiction With TaleHunt

Mattias Ahlvin Posted on November 6, 2016

The society we live in is a fascinating beast. Everything evolves, everything changes, from the work we do to what we do to entertain ourselves. Take books and fiction, for example. When I was growing up, before the age of the Internet (gasp, there was such a time?) when stories were read in books and […]

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Firewatch – The Review

Mattias Ahlvin Posted on July 29, 2016

It’s 1989. With your family life in turmoil, you’re looking for an escape, at least for a while. An opportunity to become a fire lookout for a summer in the Wyoming wilderness presents itself and before you know it, you’re looking out over the vast wilderness of Wyoming from a lookout tower. That tower is […]

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Classic Amiga Games on Android

Mattias Ahlvin Posted on April 28, 2015May 29, 2017

Growing up during a time when computers like the Commodore 64 and Amiga 500 reigned supreme, I have always had a fondness for the old school games of the 80’s and 90’s, for games produced on limited hardware where the option of adding another gigabyte of memory was not an option. 512K was a lot […]

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Android 5.0 Lollipop Upgrade for ASUS Transformer TF101

Mattias Ahlvin Posted on December 1, 2014March 28, 2016

Since I received my TF101 three years ago or so, I have gone from sticking with official firmware updates to rooting and loading the latest ROM’s available for the now aging tablet by ASUS. Currently, I believe it is loaded with some version of Android 4.3. When Lollipop was released recently, I wondered whether Timduru, […]

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Improving Battery Life on Moto 360

Mattias Ahlvin Posted on September 12, 2014

The Moto 360 has been on the market for a week. Since its release, a variety of reviews have been written. Much has been said about the battery life of the Moto 360, both good and bad. The comments have ranged from not that great to pretty good. My experience has been from the […]

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How To Install Android 4.4 On The Nexus 7 (2013 Edition) Using Ubuntu

Mattias Ahlvin Posted on November 13, 2013

Having just received my Nexus 7 a few weeks ago, I knew that KitKat would be just down the road. In the last day or so, Google announced that it’s finally available for the Nexus 7 WiFi model, which is the one that I have. Of course, the roll-out is painfully slow as it can […]