Gadgetory

hey everyone my name is Taylor and you're probably just as surprised to see my face here on android authority as I am as is customary here at Android Authority i'm going to give you a little behind-the-scenes look at who i am how I got started and what I like outside of technology I'm also going to answer some common questions that I get asked all over the internet all the time so without any further delay let's get to it first I want to say thank you thank you so much because the first video I uploaded on the channel got almost 400 comments as of like 10 minutes ago and they were all or mostly all very very kind there are some trolls out there I know who you are but it was a very warm welcome and it felt great to be joining such an awesome team so I want to say I'm happy to be here and thank you for anyone and everyone who said the nice words in the comments section because that's my favorite place and I girlfriend's favorite place control so I guess I'll begin with where I actually got my start here in the industry about six years ago I got a job working at best buy mobile I was selling phones and I ran into a man who came in often his name is Aaron Baker and some of you may know him he was working at phoneDog at the time and he was starting a new website for blackberry fans and he asked me for my help because of my expertise and blackberries seriously I was obsessed with blackberries like really really bad swore off Apple and Android Android wasn't really a thing then but swore off pretty much everything but blackberries and swore I would never carry anything but a blackberry yeah pretty short-sighted I guess but anyway Aaron offered me a free volunteer job as the forum's moderator think through the span of like three months I might have posted like three things and moderated a bunch of spam and that's pretty much it but fast forward a little bit he offered me a news position with the website and fast forward like six months later I was the managing editor of the website fast forward just a little bit more because this is kind of boring stuff I decided to leave bberry dog and they were gonna shut up the site so they offered me a position at phoneDog as I guess just a news writer and that kind of led me into writing editorials because I preferred giving my opinion because I talk a lot and I like to share my opinion even if not everyone wants to read it all the time to date i've probably written over 3600 editorials which is a crazy number that is almost i think i calculated a while back maybe a million words or so that's a lot of writing it's it's not darren murph like Guinness World Records writing but it's a lot of writing and i also got into videos i started doing some videos for phoneDog and they were horrible I'm so embarrassed of them do not go look at him I know that's what you're going to do now but don't go look at them but then at CES 2013 I ran into some guys you might know them Michael Fisher Brandon minimun Jaime Rivera I became pretty close friends with these guys and I actually joined pocket now in February of 2013 and I sort of being I guess one of the main YouTube guys they're doing cell phone reviews and tablet reviews and all kinds of other different videos I was also doing a lot of written work there as well but fast forward to November 2014 I decided that I was tired and I needed a break but I'm not going to get into all of that here if you want to listen to the whole story you can go listen to my podcast it's untethered it'll be episode 49 it's not live yet I'm actually about to record that with Josh here in a little bit but it will be live later this week i believe on thursday but it was actually CES 2014 where i met Darcy and josh and we didn't really talk that much we met at Pep calm and kind of met and did a little meet and greet and went on about our business it was really busy but at Eva 2014 in Berlin Josh and I got to hang out a lot and we got really close after that he's been a regular on my podcast we talk about pretty much anything and everything it's kind of an anything-goes podcast we come each week without a topic to talk about and ramble on for about an hour to an hour and a half sometimes two hours and it's really interesting because sometimes the conversation is just amazing and then other times we really don't know how we got to where we are or what we're talking about and it's led down some very dark paths some very interesting things and secrets have been dropped on the podcast so it's a it's a lot of fun and I look forward to it every single week but after I left pocket now I picked up where I left off with my own channel it's called mod and I do a bunch of DIY videos and cover technology and pretty much anything that I find interesting I also posed some vlogs with my girlfriend I do some videos for two doest and I write for them and I do a lot of work on the side I'm a pretty busy guy but now here I am in February 2015 and I'm with android authority making videos about phones again because I always knew that I was going to miss mobile technology that never a secret i knew i was going to miss it and i wanted to be back eventually but I didn't know how soon that would be so what am I going to do here at Android Authority the video i posted on sunday the nexus 9 tips and tricks is a very great representation of what i'm going to be doing here are some tips and tricks how to's and other odds and ends like that but i'm also going to be filling the gap and covering the review devices that the other guys can't get to just kind of be here when they need me to do different things so now to some questions Kevin here at Android Authority gave me a little crap over not answering his question which he then later said i did answer his question about what audio setup i use for these videos currently just out of frame is a samsung meteor mic on mic stand it's nothing fancy it's a little USB mic and it works really really well as you can see but last week i actually had a much nicer mike i was using a blue spark with a focus right scarlett 2i2 interface and for some reason decided to stop working the very minute I decided to start making videos for android authority so there's that I'm now using my old Mike to do these videos devices i carry i know this is going to come up so i'm going to go ahead and get it out of the way right now i am carrying my primary device is the Moto X 2014 pure edition this is on tmobile it is I love it I just want to say that the only two things to say about it are the battery life is f and the camera sucks also i'm using an iphone 6 plus on verizon at 64 gigabytes space grey and i have this really cool fit bag for it I yeah that's what it's called fit bag it's just a little pouch I like it a lot people make fun of me for my fit bag but i like it also ipad mini yeah I'm a little bit of an apple guy not really a fan boy I use Apple devices I use Android devices so what and of course the Nexus 9 you saw that in the video the other day oh and before I forget I use a moto 360 it's just my wrist and most the time I forget about it because i don't know maybe I forget and leave it in theater mode I don't know it's on my wrist and never buzzes but that's pretty much the gist of my mobile devices i also have a macbook pro retina 2013 mid-2013 early 2013 I don't know and some other knickknacks you can see my everyday carry videos on the mod channel also what is probably my most prized possession is my car i drive a scion fr-s it is hot lava not orange and I have done a tablet install on the dash and took it out and I want to finish that but other than that I haven't done any mods but i do want to swap out the exhaust and do a force injection though I haven't decided between a supercharger or turbocharger I will probably go supercharger once the warranty runs out of course other random interests I have recently picked up skateboarding in high school I was the crazy guy who was jumping stairs heads and grinding rails and doing crazy stuff and then I hit my head I almost died I went blind for 24 hours and decided to call it quits and recently because my girlfriend loves me so much she bought me another skateboard maybe she's trying to tell me something I also ride a motorcycle it barely qualifies as a motorcycle is 250 CCS it's a ninja and it looks like a straight out of the 80s and I Plasti Dip tit and that's pretty much all there is to know and from time to time mostly every night after my girlfriend goes to bed I play video games most recently I've been playing NHL 2015 I have both Black Flag and unity for Assassin's Creed and then modern warfare which I play online not really as often as I would like I want to do twitch streaming but the internet here so bad and I'm so busy that I just don't have time and it's not worth the struggle because time warner man seriously time warner and then finally coffee yes coffee I love coffee it's probably a very very bad addiction and maybe borderline obsession but I love it and it tastes great and I like to make different types and try all the different flavors and different roasts and everything I use an aeropress i use the inverted method for three to three and a half minutes and that's pretty much it may be a coarse grind oh and then of course DIY I like to make things lots of things I make things every monday so i guess that's pretty much it that's about all there is to know about me I live a pretty boring life here in my sister's basement it's really dark and drab and we have to use a lot of lights to make you see me on the camera but I look forward to making videos for you guys to watch and I look forward to your comments and getting to know some of you in the comments section I'm pretty active on google+ well not really that's a lie that's a total lie I always tell myself I'm gonna be more active on google+ and I never am but I will try I will make an effort to be more active on google+ for you but you can definitely find me on twitter at casper tech I'm always there it's like my second home I'm tweeting all the time sharing links and you clickbait stuff that you don't want to click but I do it just to troll you I also use Facebook but for some reason buffer and all the other services I used to share to Facebook decided not to let me post publicly so you probably will never see anything if you follow me there but do it anyway and i'm also on instagram also a Casper tech you can find my other youtube channel at youtube com / mod at home and that's actually the handle for everything instagram facebook google+ twitter and snapchat it's all at mott at home the podcast is untethered cast find it on soundcloud or untethered casscom that social is untethered cast on twitter facebook google+ and pretty much i think that's it but that is going to do it for this video if you liked it please give it a thumbs up and subscribe to the channel if you haven't done so already i'm happy to be joining a team of awesome guys who do a lot of awesome video stuff and I just I'm just happy to be part of the team also go to android authority calm to check out the site for your source on all things android and one last time my name is Taylor Martin you can find me on twitter at casper tech and i will see you in the next one