Geek With Laptop

The novelist John Irving made that observation years ago about the VCR and each generation of video technology brings watching and reading closer together, making video more private and more under the user’s control.
Until recently, books were unlike video in that they private, portable and under the reader’s control. When you’re reading a book, you’re [...]

Google may say it fights spam but I’m beginning to have my doubts. A recent post on Google’s Webmaster Central blog offers advice on how to build “startpages.”
What is a “startpage”? “Basically, it’s a Web page with a lot of links about a specific topic,” explain Selina & Jos, two members of Google’s Search Quality [...]

Apple CEO Steve Jobs was so happy to show off the fact that the iPhone’s browser lets users experience the “real” Internet that he forgot one important fact: The “real” Internet requires speed.
As early reviews of the iPhone are pointing out in hordes, speed is one thing the iPhone doesn’t have over AT&T’s EDGE [...]

One of the hallmarks of Apple’s current cache, along with pure stylishness, is its secrecy.
Products don’t get announced until very close to release date, features sometimes even later and Apple’s public relations department isn’t exactly the most open.
Apple’s cageyness certainly breeds intrigue, but it wouldn’t work as a corporate policy at a place [...]

Will Windows users switch to Safari?
The new version has some intriguing features but there are already several great browsers for Windows based machines.
Fortunately for Apple, it doesn’t have to win a lot of market share for Safari on Windows to be a winner.
Apple’s announcement yesterday at WWDC in San Francisco that they’ve ported [...]

Well here I am “Live from Chicago” attending SOBCON 2007. The 2 hour time difference is really kicking my butt right now but things are moving along… I’ve even had breakfast. w00t.
About 30 minutes ago things got kicked off with Phil Gerbyshak, self proclaimed relationship geek. He’s a great guy. I actually got to [...]