ХудожникИконописIsn’t that little blue iMessage button on the iPhone the greatest thing?  It changes from green to tell you that the person you are about to text also has an iPhone running iOS5, and that the text message you are about to send will cost you nothing more than a kilobyte or so against your [...]

In landscape photography you often want to have both near objects (like foliage or people) and distant objects (such as a bridge) in focus at the same time.  To achieve the widest depth of field you have to focus at the hyperfocal distance. But it’s not trivial to figure out what that distance is.  It [...]

Or will it pretend to stream while acting like a remote control?

Transferring and syncing files between multiple portable devices needs to be made easy and direct.

Multitouch isn’t all that. Except when it is.

Numbers have always been a challenge to type accurately on regular keyboards. Here’s a tactical fix.

The best $200 you ever spent

When will we get proper voice command of smartphones?

Why must we have internet-based apps OR a modern user experience?

Wow, the upcoming Chumby has an incredibly simple and intuitive UI for adjusting volume: just turn the dial. No unlocking to make the volume UI available.  No having to ensure that you are in the right mode.  You can feel for it and operate it without even looking, with instant response. What a great idea! [...]

Stationery is broken in the Mac OS. Here’s the fix, and a workaround in the mean time.

Apple’s dubious track record of mouse design

Et tu, Palm?

If you need to generate all that heat anyway, why not do something useful in the process?