There are few things in this (first) world that are worse than trying to cancel your internet and cable service.
In fact, Comcast has folks that are dedicated solely to the mission of retaining those who wish to graze in other internet pastures, complete with a guidebook on how to keep a customer on the phone and persuade them to keep their Comcast service. We have seen this go horribly awry.
Even in the best case scenario, you’re stuck arguing with a stranger over something you no longer want or need for far longer than you want.
But a service called Airpaper is looking to take that mess off of your hands for the relatively cheap price of $5.
All you have to do is offer up your name, address, phone number, and Comcast account number and Airpaper will make that nasty phone call for you. The company promises it won’t use your information for any reason other than to cancel your service, but it’s worth noting that handing over so much personal data to a third party is never 100 percent safe.
That said, I’d still pay $5 to have someone else handle the the process of canceling my Comcast service.
[via Geek.com]
Android Wear, of course, also shows you all of your notifications from your phone (and when they are interactive, Wear will automatically mimic those, too). You could push all of your phone notifications to your watch, but that would be overkill. Thankfully, Google lets you choose which applications can push to Wear. But its most useful feature — and maybe its killer feature overall — is definitely easy access to Google Now.
That is, of course, only when Google Now gets it right — and most of the time, it does. The company has been working hard on bringing more information to Now and that has made it quite a bit more useful by regularly adding more information and new cards to it. Some cards that Google shows on the phone don’t make sense on Wear (links for topics you recently search for, for example) and those thankfully never make it to the watch.
