With less than seven weeks to go before Google Reader shuts down, we still have plenty of time before making a switch, but reviewing our options is nevertheless a worthwhile endeavor. I talked before about Feed Wrangler, a yet-immature hosted solution that’s looking to do a bit more with RSS feeds than Reader ever did, [...]
With the impending shutdown of Google Reader on July 1st, a lot of nerds are scrambling to find a replacement. I’ve been in the wait-and-see camp, because several projects were announced after Google posted about shutting down Reader, and all of the existing solutions seemed hasty. One of the alternative options that I’ve been waiting [...]
Managing the things I need to do throughout the day has been an evolving system, but slowly all the right pieces have come together. Surely things will continue to evolve as existing apps are refined, new apps are released, and completely new ways of doing things are revealed. My system today already works pretty well, [...]
In a lot of ways I’m a geek before my time, particularly given my love of mobile computing. Before leaving the computer software industry I worked for an IBM subsidiary developing J9, the scalable Java Virtual Machine that ran on everything from car stereos and other embedded devices to mainframes. I was the designated Palm [...]
With Galaxy Note sales apparently doing pretty well, it’s no surprise people are insisting Apple address this larger-phone (phablet) market. Arguably, Apple’s move to increase the iPhone’s screen size with the iPhone 5 was in part due to market demand for larger screened smart phones. Now, Marco Arment makes a case that Apple could re-purpose [...]