If you’ve read many of my columns here, you know that I am a fan of the tablet form factor. I believe tablets to be some of the more important technology products of our age. Most of this belief is rooted in the concept of touch …
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10 Essential iPhone Tips, New and Old
The iPhone is known for its simplicity, but not everything about it is obvious. Beyond its straightforward grid of apps lies plenty of tricks that make Apple’s phone easier to use. Here are 10 essential iPhone tips and tricks, …
Microsoft’s Xbox Music Looks Good, As Far As It Goes
The Zune era is about to come to a definitive end. Microsoft’s new Xbox Music–the service it announced at the E3 conference in June–arrives on the Xbox console on Tuesday and on Windows 8 on the operating system’s debut day, …
iOS 6 Made My E-mail Stop Dinging: Here’s How I Fixed It
The night was quiet, my friends. A little too quiet. I had slunk into my oversized chair – bigger than a chair but smaller than a loveseat – to catch up on whatever whimsical programs had recorded on my TiVo. It had already …
Smaller iPad to Be Introduced on Tuesday, October 23? ‘Yep.’
Well-connected Apple blogger Jim Dalrymple’s one-word “yep” posts have become synonymous with confirming various rumors. The latest gives the nod to a post by John Paczkowski over at AllThingsD which says, “People familiar with …
Samsung’s Galaxy S III Mini Is a Flagship Smartphone in Name Only
For some reason, Samsung’s Galaxy S III Mini has become the talk of the tech blogosphere, even though the phone doesn’t look all that special.
Here’s the spec list, straight from Samsung:
- 4-inch, 800-by-480 resolution
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Here Come the Touchscreen Desktops and Laptops
Windows 8’s compatibility with keyboard, track pad and touch has created a new world of possibilities for PC makers
Sony’s Tap 20: This Desktop PC Thinks It’s a Tablet
Sony’s new VAIO Tap 20–one of a bunch of Windows 8 PCs it just announced–is a 20-inch all-in-one PC with a touchscreen and a wireless mouse and keyboard. Nothing particularly noteworthy about that. There are going to be plenty …
RockMelt for the iPad: Here Comes the Latest Social Browser
A social web browser. It sounds like a cool idea for a product. I first got excited about the concept years ago, when I tried a browser called Flock, which started as a Firefox variant and then became a radically different beast …
Logitech’s New Pointing Devices: Built for Windows 8
In less than three weeks, consumers will start getting their hands on Windows 8, with its radically new “Modern” (formerly Metro) interface, and forming opinions about it. Some of them will be buying it pre-installed on a new …
New Google Nexus Hardware: Here Comes the Wave?
Back in May, the Wall Street Journal reported that multiple Nexus devices from Google and its hardware partners were coming this fall. Now that the leaves are changing color, new rumors suggest that the Nexus invasion might be …
Review: The Return of the Slingbox
In the beginning–before Hulu, before Netflix Watch Instantly, even before the official launch of YouTube–there was Sling Media’s Slingbox.
The ingenious “place-shifting” box let you re-route the TV signal that would normally …