Thank goodness for bookmarklets. I have at least a dozen that I use regularly; one that lets me perform a Google search for text within the site I’m currently visiting, another to submit a publish action within a web app I use (whose own publish button is inconveniently placed), another to generate…

The following interview was conducted by Bruno Ferrari a writer about technology for EPOCA, the weekly magazine of Organizações GLOBO, the largest Brazilian media company on March 30 2011. The article (published in Portuguese here ) is an edited subset of the following exchange. Q: In your analyses,…

Today’s guest contributor is former Wall Street Journal and Fortune writer, Erik Calonius . Erik collaborated with Dan Ariely on Predictably Irrational and he has a new book out from Penguin Portfolio, Ten Steps Ahead: What Separates Successful Business Visionaries from the Rest of Us. +++ A few…

For such a seemingly simple concept, "open" sure is a contentious term these days. I've previously written at length on TUAW about the topic of Android's openness and, semi-relatedly, the GNU Public License . Last week, news came that Google is making serious changes in how it manages the Android…

Love Apple gear? Like math? TUAW's Doing the Math series examines the numbers and the science that lie behind the hardware. One of the new features we first saw in the developer beta of Mac OS X Lion back in February is long-overdue in this correspondent's humble opinion: it finally supports TRIM on…

Data Center Theory Banner Amidst news about the departure of Bertrand Serlet , this morning has seen some outstanding opinions about what Apple will do with their data-center in Maiden, North Carolina. Combined with the unrelated rumors that Apple could license AirPlay to consumer-electronics…

I like to pay for things I use, even if I get no benefit out of paying — I like to pay. It wasn’t always that way for me, as most of my life was years of trying to find, and trying to use, nothing but free software. As such, one of the first Mac apps that I fell in love with was the excellent…

March 12, 2011 I don’t know exactly when, but sooner or later, Macs will run on Apple-designed ARM chips. A look back at history Before WWDC 2005 the rumor mill was swirling. Some people were expecting Powerbook G5s; others were expecting an Intel announcement. Another group altogether thought the…

Welcome to an opinion piece about certain minor aspects of the iPad 2. I know, right, who’d think to write about that . This is my life, folks. The Case Against the Case I will admit I am mainly reacting to Marco Arment’s piece about Smart Covers. I don’t think he’s wrong on any count, but I…

As Rupert Murdoch nears 80, many see his son James as the heir apparent. Eddie Keogh/Reuters LONDON ON a night in late January when he should have been in the Swiss village of Davos, James Murdoch went to dinner here with his father, Rupert, and several journalists from The Sun, the tabloid that the…

TechCrunch, a San Francisco-based company that publishes the influential blog of the same name, started as a hobby. In 2005, Michael Arrington, a serial entrepreneur and former lawyer, was researching Silicon Valley start-ups and decided to post his findings online. Since then, TechCrunch, which…

Nearly six years ago I began writing on the internet. It’s been a near-daily event ever since. I love writing on the internet. Recently I’ve been reading through old archives from stuff I wrote in 2005, 2006, and 2007. It is amazing how different my writing is now compared to then. But sadly, it’s…

As we all know by now, comments on the Internet are a fascinating thing. My favorite involve the word “fanboy.” Generally speaking, it means you write (stories, tweets, whatever) about a certain topic with a positive angle. It’s meant to be derogatory, but the truth is that it’s so overused that…