Tech
Ask a Mac: Calendar, Contacts Swallowed by the Cloud
Yipes! My iPhone’s calendar and contacts have stopped syncing with my MobileMe calendar and contacts. Alas, Apple’s cloud solution is convenient but not a hundred percent reliable. Here are two ways you can cope.
Design by Community? Nokia’s Dumbphone Concept
Crowdsourcing is supposed to be the smart way to do things these days, but Nokia’s turned it into a popularity contest that’s supposed to magically result in the best next-generation smartphone? Seriously?
Stapled Shut: How a Misprint Got Me a Sweet New Monitor
Learn how a misprint in this week’s Staples advertisement could get you an HD monitor for a lot less than you think.
The Looming eBook Quandary
Thanks to the leverage of their iPad distribution agreements with Apple, the big book publishing houses won their recent price skirmish against Amazon.com, but will the victory be a Pyrrhic one?
Ask a Mac: Why Use Wordpress’ New Thumbnails Feature?
Ask a Mac No. 2: How you can use the new Wordpress image thumbnail feature to liven up the online experience of iPhone (and other smartphones’) visitors to your site — even if the theme you currently use isn’t set up for it.
Featured Articles
Article Archive
I Love the SarcMark :-|
Sarcasm shouldn’t require a neon sign. The SarcMark, too artificial and inauthentic to convey true sarcasm, will be the Esperanto of punctuation — a seemingly good idea when invented, and with its own (small) cult of adherents — but ultimately irrelevant.
Virtual Ennui
Twitter. Tumblr. Social media can ensnare us alongside only those who agree with us. When those who disagree with us are automatically silenced we can fall prey to a virtual ennui.
World Peace at Hand
I nominate the new Internet Movie Database (IMDB) app for the iPhone for the Nobel Peace Prize. Just think about all the arguments it has settled.
Today’s Find: Cool CSS Tool
Some cool free software to help you learn how CSS works to make sites luverly.
Magazines on Computer Tablets o’ the Future?
The folks at Bonnier, publisher of Popular Science and other magazines, are working with Berg on prototypes for digital magazines to be displayed on tablet computers of the future (are you paying attention, Apple? — actually, I’m sure they are).
