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The interview I did with Chuck Joiner for his MacVoicesTV podcast is up. I talk mostly about my upcoming appearances at Macworld|iWorld, including the Macworld All-Star Band at Cirque du Mac, my session on “The Geek Outdoors” and more. The Road to Macworld | iWorld 2012 takes a Jersey turn in a conversation with Chuck (…)

It’s a rare opportunity when my love of technology and my love of the great outdoors align, so I was thrilled when I was asked to deliver a seminar on “High Tech Camping” at next week’s Macworld | iWorld event in San Francisco. If you’re coming to the event, I certainly hope you’ll consider attending (…)

[I neglected to link to this post I wrote over at The Mac Observer, but as I watched my son synching his new iPod touch over WiFi this Christmas, these thoughts came back to me; I figured they should be here as well. - Editor.] Apple released iOS 5.0.1 yesterday, mainly to address battery issues (…)

In years past, I had a tradition of linking to MacMinute on Veterans Day. The late Stan Flack would post “In Flanders Field,” a poem by Canadian Soldier Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, MD, dedicated to the fallen soldiers of World War I. Since Stan passed away, MacMinute has ceased publication. So I’ll carry on his (…)

I’ll be speaking at Macworld|iWorld again this year, with a session I’m very excited about. “Camping Tech: The Great Geek Outdoors” will feature ways to use your high tech devices to get more out of your next camping trip. From the session description: Can high adventure and high tech coincide? This fun and lively session (…)

Adobe has announced it will cease development on Mobile Flash. Arguments about proprietary technologies vs. open standards aside (but still valid), Adobe is finally admitting what Apple and other critics have been saying all along: Flash just doesn’t work well on mobile devices. The end result of this will be the marginalization of Flash on (…)

“Visionary” video from Microsoft. I don’t hate these in general as much as Gruber does, but this one is just soulless. Unlike AT&T’s “You will” ads that showed specific ways new technology would enrich our lives (send a fax from the beach, kiss your kid goodnight via video chat, pay your toll without stopping), this (…)

I’ve been around tech a long time now, but I have to admit I was having trouble finding some of iOS’s new features. Here are a few of the less obvious (to me, at least): iMessage: Don’t bother looking for an “iMessage” app on your phone — there is none. Instead, activate it from Settings–>Messages. (…)

I’ve been mentioning the resemblance of Apple’s iPhone 4S’ Siri voice recognition to it’s 1987 concept video (I noted it in my liveblog of the announcement.) What I didn’t notice was the uncanny accuracy of the date in which the fictional Knowledge Navigator was placed. From Andy Baio’s Waxy.org: Based on the dates mentioned in (…)

From an International Business Times article by Wendy Li: However, when iPhone 4S was launched, Apple fans were disappointed somehow, for they were expecting the redesigned iPhone 5 as rumors suggested. Naturally, many analysts had predicted a subdued response to iPhone 4S. But no one foresaw that the tech genius Jobs would suddenly pass away, (…)