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Which Smartphone Is Right For You? It Doesn’t Matter Anymore
Did you hear the earth move recently? No? Me either. When Nokia announced the Lumia 925, their newest Windows Phone/“iPhone Killer,” few raised an eyebrow. It certainly wasn’t the media event that heralds the coming of a new iPhone or [...]
How to manage the social media overload
With Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, foursquare, Tumblr, WordPress, Google Plus, MySpace and more and more social media sites and apps to update, post to and follow, I am often asked, “How can I easily manage my social media?” I recommend, and [...]
How the iPhone made me miss my first flight ever
I’ve always been slow to pick up new technology. Blame my parents: We didn’t have a computer until I was 13 (I had to bring in a signed note confirming that I was unable to practice typing at home for [...]
Digital Voodoo & Freaked Out Facebookers
This past week, another round of Facebook privacy notices started copying-and-pasting its way around the social network. The first occurrence was earlier this year when Facebook became a publicly traded entity. A message quickly circulated claiming this change had somehow [...]
The Listserve brings back show and tell
Whenever a new form of electronic technology emerges, my instinct is to draw metaphors from the more familiar analog world. Facebook is a modified public square, the suburban park where you can bump into acquaintances and join conversations. Twitter is [...]
Confessions of an iFanboy
It’s no secret, I am an Apple fanboy. I own an iPhone 4, a second generation iPad and a 2009 MacBook Pro, which is still running strong, by the way. But even with the courts awarding $1 billion to Apple [...]
Why are Facebook’s mobile apps so awful?
As good as Mark Zuckerberg and company has been on the desktop version of the social media powerhouse, they’ve lacked in all facets of the mobile app – even on the iPad. Between sluggish load times – not just on 3G or [...]
Everything you need to know about the new iPad
In case you’ve been living under a rock the past 24 hours, Apple announced “The new iPad” yesterday at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco. That’s right, it’s not called iPad 3 or iPad HD or [...]
TWoP and Me
Of the things I “do” on the Internet, reading recaps of and message boards about television shows consumes a large percentage of my time. Sometimes, I even do it while I’m watching the shows themselves — since I don’t have [...]
The top ultrabooks, tablets at CES
So, you’re not a big enough nerd to have wanted to closely follow 2012′s Consumer Electronics Show; however, you still want to know what’s on the horizon, right? Luckily for you, this is where I come in to play. There [...]