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Review: 23andMe DNA Testing for Health, Disease & Ancestry

March 5, 2010 · 85 comments

Okay I know what you’re thinking — why is some genetics testing service being reviewed on Stammy’s tech blog? Well for one, because 23andMe is at the forefront of technology that is slowly but surely enabling the general public to get access to their genome data that would have cost thousands of dollars just a few years ago. I heard about 23andMe in 2008, when they were charging $1,000 for a DNA test and access to the results. Now the price is somewhat more reasonable, but still expensive at $399 for access to ancestry information, $429 for health or $499 for both. Each of those prices is just for one person. 23andMe operates in the personal genomics space and they have a few competitors like Family Tree DNA and Navigenics among others.

23andMe Genetic DNA testing - Ancestry Edition Box
23andMe Genetic DNA testing – Ancestry Edition Box (but this review is for the Complete Edition, see disclosure notice)

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First Impressions: Google Voice

July 28, 2009 · 86 comments

You have probably heard of a company called GrandCentral a few years ago. They made big news with their September 2006 beta launch of their service allowing people to use a single phone number for all of their phones. David Ulevitch of OpenDNS was the first person I knew that began using GrandCentral full-time. He had a single number that rang his office phone and mobile phone at the same time — a real convenience [click to continue…]

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Location Sharing: Yay or Nay?

February 9, 2009 · 19 comments

The location sharing bubble might have started back in ye olde Loopt days but now everyone is on the bandwagon: Yahoo! with Fire Eagle (Fire Bagel as once internally called by Y! employees), Google with their recently announced Latitude, BrightKite, Whrrl, Groovr, Moximity and bundles of others. Alongside all of these products, there are developer-oriented tools like Mozilla Geode that help developers find their users’ locations (once asked) from their computer and do whatever with it. However, this all begs the question why? [click to continue…]

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On Digital Organization: Things, Google Cal & iCal Syncing

December 3, 2008 · 48 comments

Believe it or not, I have never used a calendar to keep track of events or anything in general. For one, I just didn’t have enough stuff going on in my life that couldn’t be wrangled by a simple to-do list kept on my (physical) desktop. That’s changing. I’ve moved from physical to-do lists to using Things. That’s one less thing always cluttering my desk. [click to continue…]

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I’m Feeling Lucky

September 8, 2008 · 29 comments

This past weekend I discovered that this blog is the #1 search result on Google (U.S. Google.com) for Paul. I will probably jinx my ranking by talking about it but at least I’ve gotten my 15 minutes. I think my next goal is getting my own Wikipedia page. Thanks for reading and supporting PaulStamatiou.com [click to continue…]

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Thoughts on Google Docs PDF Support

July 2, 2008 · 16 comments

It’s no secret that I love the cloud and try to keep all of my data in it. So when Google announced that they added PDF support a few weeks ago, I was listening. Last night I had the bright idea to move my treasured PDFs from my S3 account to Google Docs, where I would easily be able to read them with Google’s built-in preview and access the original files. Furthermore, I figured Google would have tied in PDF support [click to continue…]

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Google Docs: Changing the Way I Work

April 28, 2008 · 35 comments

Final exams are around the corner and I can’t help but think how useful Google Docs has been for me this year. They may not have implemented the print layout view (although it is surely nearby) I have been longing for, but Google has completely turned Docs around since their acquisition of Writely in March 2006. [click to continue…]

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Google to Further Personalize Results?

November 29, 2007 · 11 comments

Based on this Google Experimental Search page, it seems as though Google is testing out a prospective feature for search results – voting. The SERPs show an “up” icon and an “X” icon. If a search result is completely irrelevant for what you were searching for, clicking the [click to continue…]

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Changing the Game – Gmail Gets IMAP

October 25, 2007

If you’re anything like me, for the past few days you’ve been checking the settings page of your Gmail/Google Apps Gmail account hoping to see an IMAP settings page. Google is slowly rolling out free IMAP access to all Gmail accounts. This is huge. IMAP support has generally been ignored by free email providers

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Say Hello to Google Presentations

September 18, 2007

With the release of the highly-anticipated Google Presentations (click New » Presentation), Google is one step closer to becoming a complete online office productivity suite and stealing many of Zoho’s users. Similar to Google Docs, Presentations can only do basic things and stays away from animations, sound, video and complex image manipulation. However, the most [...]

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Play It Safe, Secure Google Notifier

July 10, 2007

Chances are that if you use Gmail or Gmail for your domain, you are also a devout user of Google Notifier to let you know when your inbox needs your attention. Also, chances are that if you read this blog you have been on your neighbor’s Wi-Fi an insecure Wi-Fi network a few times before. [...]

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Google Docs Receives Update

July 2, 2007

I logged into my Google Docs account this evening to organize some school documents when I noticed that the Docs Home was revamped. The new structure, which I rather enjoy, makes it easy to view all of your documents as well as organize them by type, folders and collaborators. Overall, Google Docs now has a [...]

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Google Maps Street View, MS Live Search Maps 3D

May 29, 2007

My friend Dimitry has a post detailing the newest Google Maps feature – Street View. As the name implies, you can see an area at the street level as opposed to up above with traditional satellite views. At the moment, Street View is only for Denver, Las Vegas, Miami, New York and San Francisco.

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Mobile GPS Gets Interesting

May 23, 2007

More high-end phones, particularly smartphones, are coming with built-in GPS capabilities that coalesce with powerful applications to provide unparalleled utility. Case in point, the Google blog mentioned today that the GPS-enabled Cingular/AT&T BlackBerry 8800 supports advanced features of Google Maps for mobile.

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Briefly: GMail Ups Attachment Limit, Squeezebox

May 22, 2007

In addition to Google unveiling Hot Trends, an expansion of the Trends service which displays popular search terms for each day, Google will be upping the GMail file attachment limit. Currently, GMail users are limited to attaching files totaling no more than 10MB. The

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