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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 [...]
“Annoying habits” ad irony
You know, if you’re going to do a feature called “The 10 Most Annoying Habits of Technology Companies”, you’d do best to vet your own site first — especially the page dedicated to annoying advertising. Although to be fair, they do disclaim being guilty of the same, and I’m sure the site’s editorial staff doesn’t [...]
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 [...]
Does Twittering mean you blog less? The answer might surprise you.
The other Twitter-related post I’ve been wanting to write lately regards the correlation between the decline of “regular” blogging (which I’m now referring to as macroblogging), and microblogging (specifically, Twittering). Ask anyone with a blog that also spends time Twittering, and they’ll likely tell you that as their microblogging has gone up, their macroblogging has [...]
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 [...]
Ownership rundown: who owns who in tech pubs
Lots of media buys going down lately — some solid, others a little harder to see. But for better or worse, in the last couple of years the new media market’s definitely trending heavily on the corporate-acquired end of things. Just for grins, let’s take a quick look at who owns who. Note: this is [...]
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.
Quote from Helvetica
As a type geek took me longer than I’d like to admit to catch Helvetica (the movie), but there was definitely one quote by Lars Müller about the quaint ubiquity of the modern world’s “default” typeface that stuck with me: “What I like is that this very serious typeface tells you the dos and don’ts [...]
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