The official release of Firefox’s latest version 3.5 is available for download by the non-beta-testing public today. The folks at Mozilla Add-ons do a great job of nudging their extens... Read more
Uploaded a new version of the Better GReader Firefox extension late last week, with a long overdue bug fix on one of its most useful features: inline article preview. While you’re usin... Read more
New York Times technology writer David Pogue offers a few of his biggest productivity tips, from working at home (thus avoiding a time-intensive commute) to using voice-to-text transcription... Read more
Inc. magazine’s “The Way I Work” feature profiles Matt Mullenweg, creator of WordPress, the software that runs this site. Even though the article byline was “by Matt... Read more
Asked my Twitter peeps whether or not they were buying the just-released iPhone 3GS, and 175 replies later, the response is a pretty solid NO. Almost 80% of respondents are passing on the 3G... Read more
What I love most about my friend Penelope Trunk’s Twitter feed (and all her writing) is that it’s raw, personal, and hilarious. But I imagine getting served with legal documents... Read more
Jason Chen’s excellent review of the iPhone 3GS banished any doubt from my mind that Apple wasn’t kidding about that S: it does stand for capital-S Speed. (Just watch those side-... Read more
After six months almost 1,000 readers have registered for a commenter account here at Smarterware, either using Facebook Connect, OpenID, or just by creating an account. Obviously SW readers... Read more
Former cubicle jockey Jonathon Wilson now works from home, but it’s almost exactly as if he’s at his desk at the office. In the comments of my recent article on working remotely,... Read more
Now that Mozilla’s launched Add-on Collections, an easy way to subscribe to lists of good extensions for Firefox and friends, it only made sense to compile my series of Better extensio... Read more
Had a blast last night on Mitch Wagner’s Second Life interview series, Copper Robot, where TUAW’s Mike Rose, ArminasX Saiman, Mitch and I got to chat about Apple’s new iPho... Read more
After whinging loudly about not having access to the Google Wave preview, Santa GOOG dropped an invite off in my inbox last night. Sadly I have no invites to give you, but I want to share th... Read more
From Google Wave to Windows 7 and this week’s Apple announcements, there are some really cool future-ready consumer products right on the horizon. Over at Lifehacker this morning, I gu... Read more
I haven’t gotten an invite to try out the Google Wave Preview (yet? pretty please Mister Google?), but based solely on the 80-minute demonstration video, two weeks later I’m stil... Read more
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