When we flip the switch, heading to Technologizer.com will take you to the new version that’s part of TIME.com. You’ll also find Technologizer posts, and scads more stuff, at TIME.com’s all-encompassing tech section, Techland.

The Technologizer Facebook page will continue to link to our new content, and both my own Twitter feed and the Technologizer one will continue unchanged. And all of our existing content, including this post, will remain available in its original form.

As part of TIME.com, Technologizer will certainly look different–here’s a sample–but I don’t plan to change my approach much. If you’ve liked what I’ve had to say here, I think you’ll like what I have to say there, and I very much hope that you’ll continue to be part of the community.

(When people tell me that tech-blog commenters are nothing but a bunch of trolls, jerks, and assorted other goofballs, I say “Not at Technologizer!” It’s true: You really are a savvy, affable group, and I learn from you every day.)

One other difference between stand-alone Technologizer and Technologizer on TIME.com is that it’ll be a one-man show. Since Techland is TIME’s multiple-contributor tech hub, I’ll be the only contributor to the new Technologizer.

So now is the right time to thank everyone who’s written for Technologizer up until now. It’s been an honor to publish their work. Just as important, it’s been fun to read it, and to hang out here with such a great gang of bloggers.

Four people in particular have been prolific, long-serving, intrepid Technologizer mainstays. I’m pleased to report that you (and I) will be able to enjoy their work at other sites:

• Ed Oswald joined me here shortly after Technologizer launched, hit the ground running, and has blogged for us ever since. You’ll find Ed’s new posts over at BetaNews and ExtremeTech.
• Jared Newman started out writing exclusively about games for Technologizer, and continued to cover them even after I convinced him to bring his smart perspective to the broader world of tech. Like me, Jared writes for TIME.com, and he also contributes to PCWorld.
• Benj Edwards’ specialty is the history of computing and technology, and he writes about it better than anyone I know. He continues to wax nostalgic at sites such as PCWorld and PCMag.com, as well as his own home base, Vintage Computing & Gaming.
• In recent months, David Worthington hasn’t contributed as frequently to Technologizer as he once did, but one of his 2011 posts–”My Mom Reviews the iPad, Her First Computer” was a blockbuster. Dave writes regularly for CBS Interactive’s SmartPlanet.

I’m also grateful to Christian Johnson, who’s silently and conscientiously copy-edited Technologizer posts behind the scenes, eradicating many a typo. The WordPress VIP team at Automattic–especially Lloyd Budd–has been wonderfully patient and supportive. And Federated Media–particularly John Battelle and Neil Chase–played an invaluable role in making Technologizer a reality in the first place.

I consider myself exceptionally lucky to have had the opportunity to start this site from scratch in 2008.  I’m only joining TIME because I’m even more excited about the things I’ll be able to do there. Thanks again for everything, and see you soon.

My interests are eclectic enough that Technologizer has tended to be eclectic. And when other folks started writing for the site, it sometimes got eclectic in ways that surprised even me. One of the great pleasures of blogging here is that so many of you have gotten what we do here, even in cases when the subject matter has gotten a tad peculiar.

Now that Technologizer is about to end its life as a stand-alone site and become part of TIME.com,  I wanted to look back at some of our most popular stories to date. Here’s a month-by-month accounting of the most-read items we’ve published, by unique visitors. (Unless otherwise specified, I wrote all of these.)

July 2008

Microsoft’s Mea-Sorta Culpa

(Windows Vista gets an ad campaign that’s very slightly apologetic.)

August 2008

Are Macs More Expensive? Let’s Do the Math Once and For All?

(I try to do an objective Apples-to-Windows comparison on the price of computers.)

September 2008

The Ten Greatest Error Messages of All Time

(This was our first blockbuster. Actually, it remains the most popular story we’ve ever published.)

October 2008

FireWire Isn’t Alone: A Brief History of features That Apple Has Killed

(When Apple yanked FireWire from the new MacBook–it later restored it–I looked back at other items that it had mercilessly done away with.)

November 2008

The T-Grid: BlackBerry Storm vs. iPhone 3G

(The first–I think–of many concise comparisons of two kinda-comparable products.)

December 2008

Apple Patentmania: 31 Years of Big Ideas

(One of our first slideshows. Our policy has always been to try and make them so good–and do them rarely enough–that very few people complain about clicking.)

January 2009

Atari’s 1984 Touch Tablet: A Retro-Unboxing

(Benj Edwards’ first Technologizer story. He found an unopened Atari graphics tablet, opened it up and used it, and documented the process.)

February 2009

Do You Think This is Sony Ericsson’s Answer to the iPhone? iDou!

(A very brief post on a little-remembered phone.)

March 2009

The Last Will and Testament of Circuit City

(When the venerable electronics retailer folded, I mourned in my own, quiet way–by visiting my local branch and shooting photos of sad, unsold products.)

April 2009

Game Boy Oddities

(The first of what was to become a tradition that continues to this day: Benj Edwards stories on the sidelights of iconic games, applications, and other tech products.)

May 2009

The Patents of Steve Jobs

(Who says that Apple’s co-founder never personally invented anything?)

June 2009

15 Classic PC Mistakes

(Benj on why the Apple III, DEC Rainbow, Coleco Adam, and other notable flops…flopped.)

July 2009

The Amazing World of Version Numbers

(Technologizer has always done well with stories on subjects that sound like they should be boring, but which are actually interesting.)

August 2009

15 Classic Game Console Design Mistakes

(Benj returns to the topic of bonehead design errors and their impact on the products that suffer from them.)

September 2009

Old Operating Systems Don’t Die…

(The fates of seven once-mighty computing platforms, starting with CP/M.)

October 2009

Windows Vista: A Review Recap

Everyone knows that Vista was terrible–but most of the reviewers who covered it when it was released didn’t think so.)

November 2009

The T-Grid: Verizon Droid vs. iPhone 3GS

(A quick comparison of the first Android phone that people got really excited over and an Apple phone that’s still on the market as I write this.)

December 2009

This Dumb Decade: The 87 Lamest Moments in Tech, 2000-2009

(Ten years of bad products, strange decisions, and other weird, weird stuff.)

January 2010

Mr. Edison’s Kindle

(Forgotten inventions that were brilliant–which is not necessarily the same thing as good.)

February 2010

Silicon Valley’s Isle of Misfit Tech

(A visit to the Weird Stuff Warehouse, where old products go to die–but often find new owners.)

March 2010

The Secret Origin of Windows

(Tandy Trower, the Microsoft product manager who shipped Windows 1.0, shares the traumatic birth of the most successful tech product of all time.)

April 2010

The True Face of Mario

(Benj investigates how a famous video-game character got his name.)

May 2010

The PalmPilots That Never Were

(As HP bought Palm, I dug up the most interesting gadgets that its new acquisition invented, but never built.)

June 2010

The IBM Muppet Show

(When my friend Andrew Leal told me he wanted to write about films that Jim Henson made for Big Blue in the 1960s, I knew it would be a ginormous hit. And it was.)

July 2010

Amiga: 25 Years Later

(Its owners claimed it was the greatest computer of its era–and they just may have been right.)

August 2010

iPadversaries!

(32 early iPad rivals–from knockoffs to gizmos that had very little in common with Apple’s tablet.)

September 2010

The Curse of 3D TV

(A rant about a technology that’s lame in more ways than I can count.)

October 2010

Nintendo Entertainment System Oddities

(Benj pays tribute to the console that saved the video game industry.)

November 2010

The Ones That Didn’t Make It: Windows’ Failed Rivals

(When Microsoft introduced its graphical interface for DOS, it was an underdog with plenty of competition.)

Decmember 2010

This Dumb Year: The 57 Lamest Tech Moments of 2010

(The year in mishaps and mistakes.)

January 2011

PlayStation 3 on Sale at Amazon for $40? Probably Not!

(Ed Oswald on a great deal that turned out to be a nasty typo.)

February 2011

The Legend of Zelda Oddities

(Benj celebrates the birthday of another video game classic.)

March 2011

Is Samsung’s New Galaxy Tab Fibbing About Its Figure? And About Those Galaxy Tab Fans…

(I stumble across a mini-scandal that’s more amusing than scandalous.)

April 2011

PlayStation Network is Down for a Day or Two

(Jared Newman’s first report–of many!–on what seems to be a minor technical glitch for PlayStation fans.)

May 2011

PlayStation Network Down Indefinitely, Again

(More Jared: What happened to “a day or two?”)

June 2011

“Why Should Somebody Buy This Instead of an iPad?”

(An important question which other tablet companies keep failing to answer.)

July 2011

A Brief History of Apple Not Buying Things

(Such as Barnes & Noble. And Sony. And Disney. And Pixar. And Sun…)

August 2011

Steve Jobs Steps Down the First Time: The 1985 Press Coverage

(What pundits thought the first time Steve Jobs resigned from the company he co-founded.)

September 2011

Qwikster: Not to be Confused With Quixtar, QuickStar, Kwikster, Quickster, Kwik Star, Quik-Star, or Kickstar

(Among the many problems with Netflix’s later-aborted plans to rebrand its DVDs-by-mail service: the new name was too damn confusing.)

October 2011

Whatever Happened to the iPad Rivals of 2010?

(I follow up “iPadversaries!” by trying to account for all the tablets it covered–and the results aren’t pretty.)

November 2011

Inside Facebook’s Amazing Oregon Data Center

(A photographic tour of the giant building where your Facebook profile lives.)

Decmember 2011

How the iPad 2 Became my Favorite Computer

(In which I give up my MacBook Air for an iPad with a keyboard–and end up a happier tech blogger.)

January 2012

Why History Needs Software Piracy

(Benj’s impassioned argument for saving our digital legacy–by any means necessary.)

February 2012

Atari Oddities

(Benj’s final Oddities slideshow–at least for now, at least on the stand-alone Technologizer site.)

I’m going to complete my switchover to blogging at TIME.com soon, where my oddball beat will remain what it’s always been. (All of the above stories, plus everything else we’ve published here, will remain online in their original form.) I’ll let you know once we wrap things up here, and I hope to see you over at TIME.

• I tried Apple’s upcoming OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, an even more iOS-esque Mac operating system.
• I wondered if Windows for ARM-based processors is a stopgap rather than the future.
• I attempted to collect the most plausible-sounding iPad 3 rumors, from the most reliable sources.
• I mused about the rants of an understandably prickly member of RIM’s board of directors.
• I worried about Microsoft’s plans for Windows’ iconic Start button.

See you over there, I hope–and I promise to drop in here as well before the TIME.com transition is complete.

Three and a half years ago, I quit a cool job and started Technologizer. It’s been the best gig I’ve ever had. So far.

As a sideline, starting in September of 2010, I’ve been writing for TIME.com and TIME magazine. That too has been huge fun, and an honor. Over the past few decades, TIME has influenced my editorial brain as much as any publication. Just as important, I’ve been impressed by its current incarnation online, in print, on tablets, and elsewhere.

I’m pleased to announce that my relationship with TIME is about to become way more than a sideline: I’ve agreed to join its staff as an editor at large.

So am I ditching Technologizer? Nope, not at all. A big part of my day will be to continue to write for Technologizer, which will morph from its current stand-alone form into a blog on TIME.com, and part of its Techland tech section. I’ll also work on other projects for TIME’s site and for the magazine, including some ambitious stuff that will be easier to pull off as part of TIME than as an itty-bitty independent site.

Technologizer is by far the most personal product I’ve ever worked on; in theory, the notion of melding it into a very large site owned by a very large media company should be intimidating. But having already worked with TIME’s team for months and written dozens of stories for them, I know that they get what I do. That’s why they want me to do it over at TIME.com, and to do it under the Technologizer name.

So I plan to just keep on doing my thing for TIME’s jumbo-sized audience–and I might even do more of it and do it better, since I’ll be able to focus my energies on one outlet. (In recent months, I’ve been writing for Technologizer, TIME, CNET, and AllBusiness.)

The new version of Technologizer on TIME.com will debut soon. I’ll have more to say before the switchover happens, including some words of thanks for Benj Edwards, Jared Newman, Ed Oswald, and the other folks who have joined me as contributors here on stand-alone Technologizer. I’m lucky to have worked with them.

And I’m just as grateful to all of you who have contributed to the Technologizer experiment to date by commenting on our posts, hanging out with me on Twitter, and otherwise being part of the community. I plan to make my new TIME job the best gig I’ve ever had–and I hope that you’ll come along. It wouldn’t be the same without you…

2011, as you may have noticed, is finally over. And what a year it was in tech. The news just kept on coming, and while some of it was sad (the passing of Steve Jobs), alarming (the PlayStation Network break-in), or just plain weird (Qwikster!), it was never tedious.

Technologizer has never set out to be a plain-vanilla tech news site, so what gets read around here isn’t a snapshot of the year’s most momentous stories. Instead, it’s something a bit more idiosyncratic: a gumbo of major events, personal observations, history, and more. Basically, it’s what I and my fellow Technologizer scribes thought you’d find interesting.

And here are the 25 stories that you found to be most interesting–as ranked by the number of people who read them.

1.Whatever Happened to the iPad Alternatives of 2010? (September)

• I take a look back at scads of tablets announced soon after the original iPad.

2. PlayStation Network Down Indefinitely, Again. (May)

• For awhile, all anybody wanted to read about on the Internet was the PlayStation Network outage. Jared Newman covered it in a series of stories.

3. How the iPad 2 Became My Favorite Computer (December)

• On my stubborn refusal to believe that the iPad isn’t a good device for creating content.

4. A Brief History of Apple Not Buying Things (July)

• People keep thinking Apple is about to buy large, famous companies. People keep being wrong.

5. Is Samsung’s New Galaxy Tab Fibbing About Its Figure? And About Those Galaxy Tab Fans…

• At CTIA, controversy arises over the exact dimensions of a new Samsung tablet–and I notice that the real people in a video don’t look too real.

6. PlayStation Network is Down For  Day or Two (April)

• Jared’s first PSN outage story, when it looked like no big deal.

7. My Mom Reviews the iPad, Her First Computer (March)

• David Worthington interviews his mother, who never owned a computer until she got an iPad.

8. Polaroid’s SX-70: The Art and Science of the Nearly Impossible (June)

• My exceedingly in-depth look at one of the most amazing gadgets of all time.

9. Osborne! (April)

• The story of the first portable PC, and the odd, remarkable man behind it.

10. Qwikster: Not to be Confused With Quixtar, QuickStar, Kwikster, Quickster, Kwik Star, Quik-Star, or Kickstar (September)

• Netflix’s new name for its DVDs-by-mail service sounds sort of familiar.

11. iPod Oddities (October)

• Benj Edwards celebrates a decade of Apple MP3 players with a look at some fun sidelights. (In terms of total page views, this slideshow was the #1 story of the year.)

12. The Legend of Zelda Oddities (February)

• Benj pays tribute to twenty years of Nintendo’s sword-and-sorcery epic. (This one was the #2 story in terms of page views.)

13. The Mac’s Malware Problem Just Got a Lot Worse (May)

• Ed Oswald explains that Mac Defender, the first piece of noteworthy Mac malware in a long time, has reared its ugly head again under a new name.

14. Steve Jobs, 1955-2011 (October)

• My first reaction to the news of Jobs’ passing was to share a favorite photo I’d taken of him.

15. Verizon’s iPhone 4 Tethering Reality Check (January)

• Ed notes that if you want tethering with the new Verizon iPhone, you’ll have to pony up some cash.

16. Saying Apple Will Never Do Something: Always Dangerous (April)

• Some folks are positive that Apple won’t get into the TV business. They should talk to the ones who were certain it wouldn’t make phones and tablets.

17. Steve Jobs Steps Down the First Time: The 1985 Press Coverage (August)

• How the world reacted when Apple decided it was better off without its co-founder.

18. Who’s Suing Who? A Cheat Sheet to the Mobile Patent Mess (April)

• An info graphical look at the ugly world of patent squabbling.

19. PlayStation Network Data Breach: It’s Really, Really Bad (April)

• Whoops! Sony lost PSN users’ personal info.

20. Remembering the Apple I (April)

• The first Apple gadget of them all, and why it mattered.

21. To Steven Jobs on His Thirtieth Birthday (October)

• A remarkable film, made by Steve Jobs’ colleagues in 1985.

22. Windows 8: The Verdict Isn’t in. (September)

• Why taking awhile to review tech products makes sense.

23. A Strange Sort of Prison, a Strange Sort of Freedom (October)

• Two open-source gurus think that Apple’s customers are idiots.

24. Some Quick Thoughts on GarageBand for iPad (March)

• Jared tries out Apple’s neat new music-creation app.

25. The Secret World of Alternative Operating Systems (May)

• Benj explores a bunch of OSes that aren’t Windows, OS X, or Linux–yes, there are lots of them.

Thanks to all of you for reading all this stuff–and for commenting, sharing, and otherwise being part of the community. You’re a smart, fun bunch to hang out with.

On Monday June 6th at 10am PT, I’ll be at San Francisco’s Moscone West for Steve Jobs’ WWDC keynote. It sounds packed, packed, packed–we’ll get our last big look at OS X 10.7 Lion before it ships, and our first big looks at the next version of iOS, and the long-rumored service now known as iCloud. And rumor has it that there are occasionally surprise announcements at these events. (I’m told Jobs likes to keep them until the end.)

I’ll blog the keynote news as it happens, with color commentary from special guest Doug Aamoth of Techland. Tens of thousands of folks attended our last Apple live coverage (the iPad 2 announcement), but we’ll save room for you. Join us at technologizer.com/wwdc11–and go there now to sign up for an e-mail reminder if you like.

We have winners in our ScanSnap scanner giveaway! Ruth Hiner won the ScanSnap S100. And Harvey Rogers won the ScanSnap S1300.

Thanks to Fujitsu for providing the scanners…and to everyone who entered here and on Twitter and told us about the paper documents in their lives.

Weren’t we supposed to live in a paperless world by now? I seem to have at least as much stuff printed on dead trees in my life as ever—business documents, photos, greeting cards, and a whole lot more. So do you, I’ll bet. And if you’d like to cut clutter by bringing them into the digital world, here’s a way to get a shot at a scanner that can do the job.

Courtesy of Fujitsu, we’re giving away two of its snazzy ScanSnap scanners in a random drawing: the super-portable S1100 (a $199 value, shown on the left above) and the double-sided S1300 ($295, on the right). Both are compact desktop models that can scan to PDF, Office, e-mail, and more, and are compatible with Windows PCs and Macs.

There are two simple ways to get your chance at winning:

• Leave a comment on this post talking about the paper items in your life you most want to turn into digital form. (Please use a real e-mail address so we can contact you if you win; we won’t display it, share or sell it, or use it for any other purpose.)
• Tweet me (I’m @harrymccracken), again sharing your thoughts on the paper items you want to turn into digital files. (Make sure you’re following me so I can Direct Message you if you win. And if you have enough characters left over, you can optionally use this hashtag: #ScanSnap.)

You only need to enter once; multiple entries won’t increase your chance of winning. Please enter between now and 12pm PT on Friday, May 27th. We’ll choose two winners at random from everyone who participates by this deadline and notify them by Monday, May 30th.

For more on ScanSnap, check out Fujitsu’s ScanSnap Community and its Twitter account. Have fun—and good luck!

In the end, the contest wasn’t that much of a contest: Josh Baer, founder of the neat service OtherInbox, won the overall competition handily and beat me at air hockey like I’ve never been beat before. I went away happy anyway, having tied for second place, won the trivia round, and generally comported myself better than I did at last year’s inaugural IronGeek edition.

After the jump, a few photos I took of my fellow contestants.

Best Web Publication/Consumer (hey, we’re up against our friends at PCWorld here)

Best Web or Digital Publication Article/Consumer (for Fanboy! The Strange True Tale of the Tech World’s Favorite Put-Down)

Best Web or Digital Publication Blog/Trade and Consumer

The winners will be announced at an awards gala on April 29th in LA. I’ll let you know how we do.