The Veer '4G' is a good thing in a really small package When the original Palm Pixi debuted on Sprint, we fell in love with the form factor and were then immediately turned off by nearly everything inside the phone. While Palm was able to fix it a bit by adding Wi-Fi to the Pixi Plus, the little…

7 Verge Score Brilliant’s new smart home controller makes it easier to put a touchscreen on your wall The new plug-in version of Brilliant’s wired smart switch is simpler to install and just as easy t

In the beginning, there was the web and you accessed it though the browser and all was good. Stuff didn’t download until you clicked on something; you expected cookies to be tracking you and you alway

Looking to buy your next phone, laptop, headphones, or other tech gear? Or maybe you just want to know all of the details about the latest products from Apple, Samsung, Google, and many others. The Ve

A recent post over at Mashable got me thinking about the issue of slactivism. It doesn’t take much brainpower to work out the origins of the word (slacker + activism), and it’s now so much in common parlance that it has its own Wikipedia entry. Slacktivism is defined as “a pejorative term that…

Earlier today I went on a mini-Twitter rant about switching platforms from webOS and apparently some people didn’t quite follow my point, so, I’ll explain here. Laying Down the Facts I’ve been a webOS user and developer the same amount of time – since October 2009. During those two years, I’ve…

The problem with shit work is that no one likes doing it, but an awful lot ofpeople say they do. Shit work Take a look at Twitter Lists. The idea behind Twitter Lists was that userswould carefully cul

I wrote this little anecdote shortly after Steve Jobs passed away. Despite it happening more than 5 years ago, it still is imprinted on my brain and does a great job of illustrating the person I felt

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This morning, I came across a list of tips on how to get through ten different kinds of writers’ block . Pro Tip: there aren’t “ten different kinds of writers’ block.” There isn’t even _one_ kind. There is no such thing as writers’ block. Okay? On a physical level, writing involves just sitting in a…

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Like many of us, I’ve been thinking a lot about Steve Jobs the last few days — thinking about the man and his legacy. I’ve been having some trouble even understanding the way I feel, let alone being a

Share Like many of us, I’ve been thinking a lot about Steve Jobs the last few days – thinking about the man and his legacy. I’ve been having some trouble even understanding the way I feel, let alone b

When I wrote my piece entitled “ One More Thing… ” in August following the news that Steve Jobs was formally stepping down as CEO of Apple, I knew that sooner or later there would have to be a follow

BLOGS RSS The late co-founder of Apple had far more profound impact on my life than that, though. By Jeremy Parish Oct 06, 2011 2:51PM PST I am not one to eulogize celebrities, or even to mourn their passing overmuch. So, I was surprised when I found myself as saddened by Steve Jobs' sudden (though…

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Be still, rogue toe. Please! Don't you dare surrender to that muscle cramp. Now is not the time. Lying here diagonally across the top of a dining table in the back room of Ambassador Wines and Spirits

It's impossible to imagine the web as it is today without Steve Jobs in the story. Even something as seemingly simple as proportional width fonts might not exist were it not for Jobs and Apple, to say

AllThingsD marks the anniversary of Steve Jobs’s death with Walt Mossberg’s memories of the man, originally published Oct. 5, 2011. That Steve Jobs was a genius, a giant influence on multiple industries and billions of lives, has been written many times since he retired as Apple’s CEO in August. He…

I met Steve Jobs while I worked at Gizmodo. He was always a gentleman. Steve liked me and he liked Gizmodo. And I liked him back. Some of my friends who I used to work with at Gizmodo refer to those days as the Good Old Days. That is because those were the days before it all went to shit. That was…

The past year has been one of the strangest ever in the life of game designer, lecturer and author Ian Bogost. It started with the launch of the most successful game he's ever developed, and ended wit

I have been intending to write this essay for months. Why am I finally doing it? Because I finally found some uncommitted time? Wrong. I have papers to grade, a grant proposal to review, drafts of dissertations to read. I am working on this essay as a way of not doing all of those things. This is…

7 Verge Score Brilliant’s new smart home controller makes it easier to put a touchscreen on your wall The new plug-in version of Brilliant’s wired smart switch is simpler to install and just as easy t

No one ever gets talker’s block. No one wakes up in the morning, discovers he has nothing to say and sits quietly, for days or weeks, until the muse hits, until the moment is right, until all the craziness in his life has died down. Why then, is writer’s block endemic? The reason we don’t get…

About Dan Dan Lyons is a humorist, journalist, and screenwriter. He has been called “the Mark Twain of Silicon Valley,” and “Jonathan Swift for our own digital age.” He’s a sharp-eyed, cynical humorist in the spirit of Dave Barry, Jon Stewart and Bill Maher. But instead of politics, Dan aims his…

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