Shortly after Steve Jobs died last October, an entrepreneur and former Apple employee named Craig Elliott was nice enough to let me share a memorable film which Apple’s employees made for Jobs’ 30th birthday celebration. It …
Prezi, the Anti-PowerPoint, Gets a PowerPoint Import Feature
Web-based presentation service Prezi, which lets you create fluid shows that zoom in, zoom out and pan around information using either predetermined paths or ones you create on the fly, has as little in common with PowerPoint as …
RIM’s BlackBerry 10 Announcement Is a Tease, and That’s Okay
BlackBerry maker RIM isn’t just holding a conference in Orlando this week — it’s holding two of ’em, BlackBerry World and BlackBerry Jam. The big news is that CEO Thorsten Heins officially unveiled BlackBerry 10, the company’s …
Jawbone’s Big Jambox Wireless Speaker: It’s a Big Jambox!
Back in 2010, Bluetooth headset maker Jawbone entered the speaker business with the Jambox, a just-about-pocket-sized, battery-powered Bluetooth speaker that sounded far bigger than it was, and doubled as a speakerphone. …
Glimpse: A Facebook-Powered Pinterest Clone Without the Human Feel
Pinterest, which lets you collect and share images and links from around the web, is quirky, addictive — and wildly popular. So it’s not surprising that it’s also proving to be influential. It sure influenced Glimpse, a new …
HTC One S Review: A Winning Android Phone for Shutterbugs and T-Mobile Customers
Call it the great Android paradox. The whole notion behind Google’s mobile operating system is to give hardware makers software that’s flexible enough to let them build an array of different handsets. But when you start to …
PCWorld and Macworld’s New Site: Not a PC Site or a Mac Site
Get Ready for June 11, iPhone and iPad Owners
This may be a minority viewpoint — in fact, I’m positive it’s a minority viewpoint — but I get far more excited about new versions of Apple’s iOS than I do about new iPhones and iPads. There’s only so much Apple can do to …
Nook Simple Touch with GlowLight Review: An E-Reader That’s Not Afraid of the Dark
If ever a technology was defined by its highs and lows, it’s E Ink, the monochrome screen system used in e-book readers from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Sony and other companies.
Its virtues are downright amazing. E Ink uses power …
A Brief, Inaccurate History of the Mythical ‘iPhone Nano,’ 2007-Present
Let us examine a legendary Apple product that has never arrived — and yet just won’t go away.
Hate the New Gmail? Here’s How to ‘Fix’ It
First, a disclaimer: I like the current version of Gmail, which Google started to preview last summer and then rolled out in November. I found the old one insufferably cramped and claustrophobic, and am positive that the airier …
Adobe’s Creative Cloud: All the Creative Software You’ll Ever Want
For years, Adobe sold Photoshop, Illustrator and its other applications for creative pros primarily in stand-alone boxes — like items on an à la carte menu. In 2003, it bundled them all into a multiple-course feast it called …