In case you forgot or missed it when I mentioned it earlier, yes I am going to Macworld next week and you can come vicariously with me. I’m hoping to highlight the best the floor has to offer when the expo starts on Thursday with a possible close encounter with an iPad on Saturday. If […]
Category: Pen & Links
A year into my work as a copy editor for the Appeal-Democrat, I started a technology blog for the newspaper. Among the accomplishments were covering both the 2009 and 2010 Macworld shows in San Francisco and liveblogging Apple’s final keynote address at the event in 2009.
A few months ago AT&T introduced an app for the iPhone to mark trouble spots for data and send the information back to the telecom provider. The first question I had was how could you send data to mark where there is no data, where there is no data. Where most people’s eyes would glaze […]
Double click on desktop folders and they open. Single click on Internet links and they open. Double click on the wrong button in stock trading software, your algorithm stifles Wall Street and your bank is out $150,000.
The Konami code is everywhere, even in the Palm Pre. No 30 lives though. You’re still stuck with the just the one you have.
I haven’t heard many stories about people whose lives get flipped around so quickly by literally being in the background of a project, but here’s one on the photographer who shot the background image for the iPad and didn’t know it.
There are many amazing things on the Internet to learn to do and to play with. Then there’s the dark side which I will simply describe by saying “Once you’ve seen it, you can’t unsee it.” Random searches online can find all sorts of unsettling images that’ll poison your mind for years to come. No […]
So the hype and bluster of another Apple event overshadowed it once again. Let’s all take a step back to reality and realize what we have. It’s a larger iPod Touch As has been fairly obvious from the get-go and even moreso with hindsight, this is a device that fills the gap between the iPhone […]
Alright, I let my predictions loose at 11 p.m. last night and haven’t changed them since, so let’s see how badly I failed: 1) There will be a tablet. Yes, I got this one right, it was a no-brainer. 2) It will run on iPhone OS 3.2, which will be announced tomorrow and made available […]
I like to be last second with these things as you probably noticed last year with my Macworld Keynote predictions. Since I bombed on those pretty badly, there’s plenty of room for me to go up with this one. 1) There will be a tablet. 2) It will run on iPhone OS 3.2, which will […]
Get a free $50 iTunes gift card. Join this group. Get a free Mac Book Air. Join this group. After getting a couple of these messages on my Facebook account, I did some digging and found out the root of this problem. The invite will take you to the group’s homepage. Contrary to what it […]