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

Thursday, August 14, 2008

[UPDATE: This is one of the most popular stories we've ever published, but with the arrival of the new MacBook on October 14th, it's also obsolete. Read it if you like--but this new article compares the new MacBook to comparable Windows computers.] It’s of those eternal questions of the computing world that never seems to get [...]

A Brief Reverse-Chronological YouTube History of Apple

Thursday, August 14, 2008

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The history of Apple is so long and interesting that some amazingly weighty tomes have been written about it. But I don’t think you need to pore over hundreds of pages to get the gist of the company’s journey. Actually, more than with any other computer company, its advertising tells much of the story. And [...]

A Brief History of Internet Outages

Monday, August 11, 2008

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Someday we’ll all tell our grandkids about what we were doing during the great Gmail outage of August 11th, 2008. Well, okay, probably not–Google’s e-mail service was down for only a couple of hours, which is relatively brief as Internet outages go. But when one of the world’s most popular mail systems goes missing even [...]

An Open Letter to Windows Vista

Wednesday, August 6, 2008

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Dear Windows Vista, First of all, I’m sorry it took me so long to sit down and write this letter. You’ve been an unusually busy operating system lately, starting with the official (if less than utterly final) demise of your predecessor Windows XP at the end of June. Then you spent some time helping with a [...]

The First $1000 iPhone Application

Tuesday, August 5, 2008

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iPhone developer Armin Heinrich has released an application for the iPhone with two noteworthy characteristics: 1) Its primary function is to display a handsome glowing red jewel on your iPhone’s screen: 2) It sells on Apple’s App Store for $999.99, thereby explaining its name: I Am Rich: (Okay, it does have one other feature: If you touch the [...]

Goners! 10 Websites That Didn’t Deserve to Die

Sunday, August 3, 2008

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The World Wide Web is such a young medium that many of the best sites from its earliest days are still very much still with us, such as Yahoo (founded in 1994), Amazon.com (1994), CNET (1994), eBay (1995). and Salon.com (1995). It’s a little as if I Love Lucy, The Honeymooners, The Milton Berle [...]

13 Ways I’d Change the iPhone’s Interface…if I Could

Friday, July 18, 2008

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For a year now, an amazing number of people have assumed I own an iPhone. Until last week, I had to politely correct them. (My phone of late has been an AT&T Tilt.) I hadn’t bought a first-generation iPhone for three big reasons. Which were: 1) I worked for a large company that used Lotus Notes–as [...]