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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TechnologizerTablets

I Hope I’m Wrong About Small Windows 8 Tablets

By Harry McCracken May 06, 2013

How will cramming full-blown Windows 8 onto even smaller screens help Microsoft’s tablet initiative?

TechnologizerBusiness

eBay’s $35 Million Mess

By Harry McCracken May 05, 2013

The Business Insider reports on eBay’s two most successful affiliate partners, and why both ended up pleading guilty to wire fraud.

TechnologizerTablets

Barnes & Noble Puts Google’s Play Store and Apps on the Nook

By Harry McCracken May 03, 2013

The walled garden around the venerable bookseller’s reading-centric tablets is coming down.

TechnologizerSecurity

Lost Your Facebook Password? Get Back In with a Little Help from Your Friends

By Harry McCracken May 02, 2013

Facebook’s Trusted Contacts feature lets you specify friends who can participate in the password-recovery process.

TechnologizerInnovation

Tiny Toon: IBM Makes a Movie Out of Atoms

By Harry McCracken May 01, 2013

Big Blue’s researchers have set a Guinness record with their new cartoon — every pixel’s an atom.

TechnologizerInnovation

Living History: Computing Pioneer Harry Huskey Is Honored at 97

By Harry McCracken April 30, 2013

The Computer History Museum honors a distinguished scientist who worked on the first computer, and just kept going.

TechnologizerHealth & Science

Jawbone’s Fitness Future: A Platform and an Acquistion

By Harry McCracken April 30, 2013

The Bluetooth audio maker is letting other apps and services talk to its Up band, and adding BodyMedia’s products to the lineup.

TechnologizerApps & Web

Handle Tries a Task-Based Approach to Taming E-Mail Chaos

By Harry McCracken April 29, 2013

A new web service aims to complement Gmail with one-click tools for dealing with the messages — important or otherwise — which fill your inbox to the bursting point.

TechnologizerSmartphones

New Windows Phone Ad: iPhone and Galaxy Fans, You’re All Idiots

By Harry McCracken April 29, 2013

Microsoft’s ad doesn’t actually explain why you want to buy a Windows Phone, but it is funny.

TechnologizerApps & Software

Google Now: Now on the iPhone and iPad

By Harry McCracken April 29, 2013

One of Android’s best features arrives on iOS in an update to the Google Search app.

TechnologizerNetflix

I’m Still Trying to Figure Out Qwikster

By Harry McCracken April 26, 2013

Reed Hastings regrets Netflix’s aborted plan to spin off its DVD service. But he hasn’t explained how it happened in the first place.

TechnologizerHistory

Kim Komando Explains PCs, Circa 1994

By Harry McCracken April 26, 2013

In vintage video, one of techdom’s most durable personalities assures worried people that PCs are just as easy as a typewriter.