Posts with category: Tech
Who would you rather sit next to on a bus?
Been pretty caught up over the last couple of weeks — especially in our iPhone 3G review and coverage — but one lasting memory I’m definitely going to take from 2008 is Bill’s last day at Microsoft. One Engadget commenter made a poignant remark that kind of brought it all home: Who would you rather [...]
Leica’s pixel dog
If I had a dog, it would absolutely have to be this breed. [Via Core 77 and Comunicadores]
Qore is go!
Veronica’s big, long awaited, heretofore secret project Qore launched for download last night — we grabbed it this morning to see how the final version looks. Very hot. And I’m not just saying that, because, well, you know. Also, I’m declaring myself the first (ok, maybe second) to have unearthed the Qore easter egg: press [...]
Joy of Tech brings me joy
I know Steve is a daily Engadget reader, but I never fully understood why until now.
Mentoring the next generation of gadget bloggers
Late last year Peter and I began a mentorship program with some students of the Torah Academy of Bergen County; Eli, Chaim, and later Charlie and Tzvi got together to begin writing an editing a gadget blog aimed at teenagers casually interested in technology, dubbed the TeenTechBlog. These kids have definitely made a lot of [...]
Good folders to exclude from Time Machine backups
Time Machine is a really effective tool for backing up everything on your drive. And when I say everything, I mean it — Time Machine indiscriminately backs up a lot of junk on your drive. And because of the techniques it uses and the way some files are used by your apps, you might find [...]
Microblogging needs platform independence
Although I’m fairly ill-equipped to delve deep into burgeoning distributed social networking “standards”, there are some clear trends in play pointing toward the need for microblogging to become a platform independent activity. (The multiple Twitter outages over the last week are only the icing on this cake.) Although blogging can trace its roots to zine [...]
Harry McCracken leaving to start a new site
So Harry McCracken is leaving PC World on June 2nd to start his own tech site. The man’s a titan in our industry, I can’t wait to check out what he’s got cooking — good luck, Harry! P.S. -And no, the EIC gig I referenced the other day wasn’t this, so there you go.
Selling News.com to bloggers? No, thanks.
James Nicholson over at Seeking Alpha thinks CNET should sell off its tech news division, News.com, to some other network of “top-tier tech blogs” (Engadget, Tech Crunch, etc. are named), and keep the best writers of the defunct brand to build a better blog network at CNET. Um, yeah, no thanks. That plan makes no [...]
Potential conflict, what do you think?
So last week I was invited to attend and speak at a semi-exclusive pre-trade show press event; not at all unusual or noteworthy in and of itself, but there are some things about it that some might find gray. In the interest of transparency, I figured I’d see what you think. Among other things, our [...]
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