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I love the feeling I get after I tweak what songs are on my iPhone. I added a composer (Mahler) and a Teaching Company course (about …

I have a long history with Infocom games (“text adventures” was what I called them as a kid, and “interactive …

The iPhone does not display any progress bar or countdown to let you know when the song you’re listening to will end. If you tap …

I’ve owned a Palm or Clie device (which used the Palm OS) for 8 years. I used them as my PIM and as an eBook reader. My very …

I bought an iPhone 3G this past weekend (and waited 4 1/2 hours for the privilege). One of its functions is to play your music/movies …

I grew up assuming that people make their own way in the world. I thought it was up to me to make every decision, plan every move, open …

Microsoft Excel was released in 1985 for the Mac and in 1987 for Windows. Today I was using the 2007 version. After 20 years of work by …

As you know, I want to stream movies and music from my PC to my TV. I have an all-star lineup of tools:

  * PC running Vista with …

Alison was interviewed on one of our favorite podcasts, Jumping Monkeys. Here’s the episode page. She discusses home archives and …

Robert X. Cringely, my favorite tech pundit, had an interesting aside in this week’s column (which is otherwise about Apple and …

Over this holiday break, I played through all the tutorials in one of my newer DS games Panzer Tactics. It’s a very engrossing …

Over Thanksgiving, I was complaining about people who crowd forward when boarding a plane, even if their row hasn’t been called, …

I’m listening to The Return of the King: The Complete Recordings at work, and I’m at the point near the (first) end when …

Has Masterpiece Theater always just been some British TV show? Lately they’ve been showing The Amazing Mrs. Prithcard, which felt …

The Zune software turned out not to be so great at working with iTunes playlists. It’s not a dynamic synchronization, just a …

Microsoft includes a Windows-based desktop media player with their Zune portable media players, to manage your music and sync it with …

Recently I bought all the bits and pieces to build a new PC for home. My old one is a few years old now, and isn’t up for all the …

Ars Technica is a wonderful tech news site that’s fast becoming more and more like a real news source, with journalists and …

A while back I wanted to read The Lord of the Rings aloud with my wife. We’ve read lots of books together this way, and I’m …

Makers of software demonstrate their values in their products. Each decision they made along the way is visible to the user in one way …

Within the last year, I’ve purchased both an Xbox 360 and an HDTV (a 37" Sharp Aquos LCD). I have a TiVo, a home network, a …

I’ve bought my first computer wargame, called Korsun Pocket, from Matrix Games. I wanted to share a short section from the …

My interest in the World Wars, and my recent reading of The Guns of August (Tuchman), led me somehow to look into the wargaming …

I recently heard of a book called The Jasons at the blog of a former colleague, Peter Woit. Since I spent the summer of 2004 doing …

“Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn’t mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny …