Harry McCracken

Harry McCracken is an editor at large at TIME, where he writes about personal technology for the magazine and TIME.com. He’s been a gadget nerd since the late 1970s and is the founder of Technologizer and the former editor in chief at PC World magazine. He's talked tech on everything from the History Channel to Dateline NBC to NPR's Science Friday. Contact him at harry_mccracken@timemagazine.com.

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WebOS: Dead? Oh, Sure, Almost Certainly — But Not Definitely

Palm Pre

It’s hard to imagine a future for the once-promising operating system. But that doesn’t mean it doesn’t have one.

Technologizer

SketchBook Ink: iPad Art at Retina Resolution, and Way, Way Beyond

SketchBook Ink

First shown at Apple’s iPad event, Autodesk’s new drawing program permits jaggy-free sketching at super-high resolutions.

Technologizer

Bump’s Newest Trick: Phone-to-PC Photo Sharing

Bump

The smartphone app now lets you bump photos onto a computer — no configuration or accounts required.

Technologizer

Yahoo’s Axis: Visual Search, an iOS Browser and No ‘Ten Blue Links’

Yahoo Axis

Yahoo tries a new, thumbnail-centric twist on search for desktop browsers, iPhone and iPad.

Technologizer

Digitimes on Digitimes: We Know What We’re Doing, and We’ll Try to Do Better

Digitimes

The Taiwanese news site, where many Apple rumors originate, defends itself but says it’ll do a better job of vetting future scoops.

Technologizer

Coming Soon: TiVo Streaming for iPhones and iPads

TiVo Stream

The upcoming TiVo Stream box will turn Apple gadgets into portable viewers for recorded shows.

Technologizer

Windows Aero: Why I’m Glad It’s Dead

Windows 8 Desktop

One of the last major vestiges of the unfortunate Windows Vista era is going away. Good!

Technologizer

BREAKING: Chrome Just Became the Web’s #1 Browser (Unless It Didn’t)

Techland illustration

New figures that show Chrome taking the lead are a big deal — until you realize that nobody agrees on browser market share.

Photos: 14 Masterpieces of Gadget Design

Apple iPhone (2007)

From the View-Master to the iPhone, 14 memorable gizmos that exude a style all their own.

Technologizer

Remembering Andrew Fluegelman, a Quiet Giant of the PC Revolution

Andrew Fluegelman

A recently-uncovered video and an awards ceremony pay tribute to Andrew Fluegelman — programmer, editor and radical thinker.

Technologizer

The Knowledge Graph: Google’s Next Frontier for Search

Frank Lloyd Wright

Google’s major new search technology, launching today, aims to understand millions of things — not just strings of characters.