Doug Aamoth

Aamoth handles news, reviews, how-to's and videos as TIME's technology editor. He lives in Boston and has spent more than 15 years in the tech industry.

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Paycheck Friday: Purchasing Suggestions For Your Perusal

It’s Friday! Maybe you just got paid. You could use that money for boring stuff like bills, rent, and food, or you could act like a wonderfully impulsive consumer and spend it on any number of products. Here are some ideas to get you started based on your taxable income bracket.

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Two Minute Video: Do You Want the World’s Lightest Netbook?

Though not technically a netbook — Sony prefers that it be referred to as a “Lifestyle PC” — the almost impossibly small Sony VAIO P features an Intel Atom processor, unbelievably high resolution screen, and a few unique features you won’t find in other netbooks.

Here’s a quick first look before it comes out this June. …

Twitter Tattoo Means Twitter Will Be Around Forever

This probably isn’t the first Twitter tattoo (henceforth known as a twattoo) and it probably won’t be the last, but it’s the latest. An enterprising young lady has decided to work at building her personal brand by getting a tattoo that says “follow me” in Twitter’s font next to Twitter’s bird logo along her left arm. Her …

Google Announces Browser-Based App Store

Citing the difficulty inherent in finding web-based applications, Google has announced its own web store, fittingly called the Chrome Web Store. It’ll feature one-click purchases tied to your Google account, and purchased browser-based applications will appear right on your Chrome start page.

During the keynote at its 2010 …

Cryptids: The Bloop

The year was 1997. Yours truly was graduating from high school, no doubt wearing a braided belt and some sort of Phish tee shirt while hard-working scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) were trying to figure out what in the hell they had just recorded from deep, deep in the Pacific Ocean. It was a …

Intel to Allow New Dual Core Atom CPUs in Larger Netbooks

Silly though that headline may sound, manufacturers who wish to sell netbooks with screens larger than 10 inches have had to swap out the made-for-netbooks Atom N-series processors with either Z-series chips, made for mobile internet devices and smaller tablets, or even cram a D-series desktop Atom processor into a netbook, as ASUS has …

They Should Make It: Big City Tourist Chairlifts

I live in Boston. Charlestown, if you’re familiar with the area. The other night I was over in the North End for dinner, which is about a mile or so from my place. The North End is Boston’s preeminent Italian neighborhood and most weekend nights are jam-packed with tourists and locals looking for dinner. Getting there by cab, even …

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