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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TechnologizerHistory

Everything You Needed to Know About the Internet in May 1994

By Harry McCracken Sept. 29, 2013

A snapshot of a revolution, just before it really took off.

TechnologizerAccessories & Peripherals

Adonit’s Evernote Stylus for the iPad Looks Like a Pointy Breakthrough

By Harry McCracken Sept. 26, 2013

This upcoming product could be the most pen-like digital pen yet for iOS devices.

TechnologizerApps & Software

JumpCam Is a Video Sharing Network That’s Collaborative as Well as Social

By Harry McCracken Sept. 26, 2013

If Instagram let multiple people make movies together, it might come out looking like this new service.

TechnologizerTablets

With the New Kindle Fire HDX Tablets, Amazon Stays Ambitious and Goes Upscale

By Harry McCracken Sept. 25, 2013

Jeff Bezos shows off better screens, slick TV tricks and built-in help from real people.

TechnologizerApple

The Myth of Steve Jobs’ Constant Breakthroughs

By Harry McCracken Sept. 24, 2013

Most of Apple’s improvements have always been incremental — and there’s nothing wrong with that.

TechnologizerTablets

Microsoft’s New Surface Tablets Are the Same Idea, Refined

By Harry McCracken Sept. 23, 2013

The Surface 2 and Surface Pro 2 won’t win over skeptics, but they make sense for Microsoft.

TechnologizerVideo Games

Virtual Reality Gaming Gets Real with EVE: Valkyrie on Oculus Rift

By Harry McCracken Sept. 23, 2013

Even in demo form, this space dogfight game is dazzling.

TechnologizerGoogle

10 Things I Didn’t Know About Google

By Harry McCracken Sept. 21, 2013

Interesting stuff that didn’t fit into our big cover story.

TechnologizerApps & Web

Microsoft Previews Internet Explorer 11 for Windows 7, Continues Trying to Woo Back IE Haters

By Harry McCracken Sept. 19, 2013

IE is a good browser these days, but its maker is still trying to overcome its not-so-good reputation.

TechnologizerSmartphones

Review: Apple’s iPhone 5s, iPhone 5c and iOS 7

By Harry McCracken Sept. 18, 2013

Apple is never going to be a company that makes a phone for everybody. But with the iPhone 5s and 5c, Apple is finally offering new models for two different types of somebody.

TechnologizerApple

When the iPhone “Experts” Speak…Ignore ‘Em!

By Harry McCracken Sept. 10, 2013

Last week, I noted one of the eternal verities of the tech journalist’s life: Big news stories result in us receiving unsolicited, canned quotes from would-be experts, and what they have to say is nearly always either painfully …

TechnologizerApps & Software

Opera Coast iPad Web Browser Treats Websites like Apps

By Harry McCracken Sept. 09, 2013

Opera’s new browser hardly looks like a browser.