Every couple of days, my Finder search goes dead. I have no idea why, but I think it has something to do with iMovie. So I search for a file name I know exists on the drive, and the Finder can't find it. I drag it out on the desktop, so now I'm looking at it -- repeat the search, and Finder still ca...

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/gadgets/The_Top_10_Alternatives_to_the_Apple_iPhone'; Nearly two years ago, the mobile phone market changed forever.  The iPhone became the King of communication while every other phone played second fiddle.  Today, mobile developers have caught up– and in some ca...

The idea for NYU Local, the newest addition to New York University's list of publications, was born last year when founder and editor Cody Brown, 20, came up with the idea for a survey to be conducted by the Foundations of Journalism class. The survey question asked other NYU students: "Would you tr...

I thought I'd steal Joe Kissell's idea and write an article on my conversion to the iPod touch (see "Confessions of an iPhone Convert," 2008-09-17). My usage needs were different from Joe's so I went with the iPod touch instead of the iPhone. Since I have to use a work-provided BlackBerry for phone ...

Tim O'Reilly, in a comment on my earlier post about how he overstates the importance of the network effect, writes: "... you failed to address my main point, namely that cloud computing is likely to be a low-margin business, with the high margin applications found elsewhere." Let me try to correct t...

I spent the week in Silicon Valley for a bunch of meetings, and I've been disappointed with the voice quality of the iPhone (esp. recently), so I decided to carry both it and my E71. In addition, I now have my work email, contacts, calendar, and corporate directory on the E71. For a bit of history, ...

A couple years ago, I had an idea for a mobile app that would revolutionize the universe. It was innovative, solutionable, and coked to the gills with passion. It was everything the World 2.0 wanted as well as a bunch of stuff it didn't. I could have written it back then, but the tech required was a...

And so we have the third bug-fix update since the big 2.0. Minor changes to the iPod app and a relatively faster SMS experience. It’s been a year since I had a real chat application on my phone and my patience is running wafer-thin. At this point, the Nokia E71 is looking like an increasingly ...

iPod + Apps demo, Apple, 09-2008 Originally uploaded by xeni It's been a big damn week I achieved enough of my Monday blog post todo list and I dealt with the high priority issues, which will follow into execution of tasks next week. But I've started and broken the back of it, and got some rhythm pl...

Along with my fellow Zune MVPs, nine of us in total, I spent Monday September the 8th visiting the Zune headquarters in Redmond, Washington. The MVPs in attendance were Chris Leckness from Got Zune, Patrick Heffner from Zune Tracks, Graham Skee from AnythingbutiPod, Drea from Beetstro, Harvey Chute ...