• What’s Apple’s next big major product?

    Perhaps the biggest concern Apple aficionados have about Steve Jobs’s departure from Apple isn’t that Apple will suddenly fall apart, but that there won’t be…

  • In defense of the Ribbon-ization of Windows

    The initial reaction to Microsoft’s unveiling of the Ribbon in Windows 8’s Explorer.exe has mostly been sour.  Of course, most of these people are using…

  • This is just embarrassing, Evernote!

    Evernote posted a remarkably cool product in their blog (http://blog.evernote.com/2011/09/02/htc-tablets-and-evernote/) by HTC. Understanding that this is a major thing to me to say, it’s the…

  • So Steve Jobs Calls Me Up Again

    So I’m sitting here this morning doing some meditation and my phone starts ringing.  I notice the number is a Cupertino number.  Excitedly, I pick…

  • Bert and Ernie tying the knot

    I was excited to hear that a petition was going around to Sesame Street’s creators suggesting that Bert and Ernie finally get married. Given the…

  • A case for cellular carriers becoming the dumb pipe

    Despite being on the approach of an effective duopoly with the AT&T-Mobile merger, cell carriers are living in fear right now of losing control over…

  • Will Facebook Messenger kill SMS? (spoiler: a little)

    The announcement of it caught me by surprise today, but Facebook released a new app called Messenger, a standalone iOS/Android app that handles just your…

  • Life without Flash

    I decided a couple months ago to just remove Flash from my computer outright. I’m not really outwardly in a pissing match against Adobe or…

  • How I will know when Republicans are serious about the deficit

    1. The defense budget will start coming under serious scrutiny. Our military is the absolute archetype of inefficient government bureaucracy and lack of accountability to…

  • So Steve Jobs calls me up

    So I’m having my Pop Tarts this morning, when all of the sudden, I get a call on my phone from Cupertino. Immediately I recognized…