Had a blast yakking with Leo Laporte, Don Tapscott, Jeff Jarvis and his son Jake Jarvis on today’s episode of This Week in Tech. We covered much ground, from gushing over/being cautiou... Read more
As I was finishing up work last night, I accidentally knocked a half-full glass of Diet Coke over and got some in my keyboard. Argh! I shook it out and went on my way, but then this morning... Read more
My personal patron of all-things-Android Viss had the latest firmware update codenamed Cupcake on his G1’s memory card when we met up last night, so now I’m rocking it 1.5-style... Read more
Last week I downloaded and installed the Windows 7 release candidate (free for anyone to use till June of next year) and the whole process was much easier because I’ve got my PC’... Read more
In an attempt to nail down what psychological aspects factor into “the successful life,” researchers have been following 268 Harvard students from the 1940s until now, conducting... Read more
Artist Jorge Colombo drew the image that graces the June 1st cover of The New Yorker magazine with Brushes, a $4.99 iPhone app. Virtually “finger-painting” an image like this ont... Read more
I’ve got my own pie chart of how I want to spend my time, so it was fun to hear that Jim Collins, author of bestselling book Good to Great, also has a similar breakdown, pictured right... Read more
Over at Lifehacker this morning I had the chance to do a navel-gazing tour through my laptop bag and show off all the stuff I take with me when I travel. The only truly unusual item I carry... Read more
A neat new Gmail Labs feature can translate email in another language to your native tongue. That’s cool, but when it comes to foreign languages, what Gmail really needs is the ability... Read more
Seems a foregone conclusion that Google’s the best search engine on the web, but at this point, there’s not that much of a gap between the second-place engine, Yahoo, and the big... Read more
Once you get past a simple to-do list and start getting into the heavy-lifting of complex team projects, it’s time to look into project management software. My only memories of my proj... Read more
What’s the unemployment rate of San Diego versus New York? How many football fields would fit between the Earth and the sun? What’s the likelihood of getting two heads in 10 coin... Read more
Emailing a group of people to find out the best time to schedule a meeting or event is probably the least efficient way to do so; inevitably you start a long thread of “This time works... Read more
My MacBook Pro has taken a beating lately: it’s been across the country and back, staying awake all night running hourly cron jobs, acting as my media center and development web server... Read more
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