Some brief thoughts on the Apple iPad and whether it changes anything for publishers.

In theory, online backup systems should work. Except for that broadband thing.

Long-suffering MobileMe users: we owe it to one another to fill in the gaps that Apple leaves.

Adobe gets clever about insurrection.

My experience switching to Google Reader and reflecting on the state of RSS aggregators.

Encountering a new software product for the first time, blow by blow.

Apple has some explaining to do when it comes to the Apple TV. Plus: take my ex-girlfriend. Please!

What the failure of banks like Washington Mutual can teach us about Web applications.

IMAP for messaging of all kinds. Please?

Freezing and crashing on devices ”that need to work.“

Spending US$599 on an iPhone a year ago turns out to be not a great way to invest my money.

Ideas for iPhone applications that I’ll never turn into reality.

Follow-through is everything in consumer-friendly packaging.

RSS readers are like junk drawers that won’t listen to you.

Is software better when it lives on the desktop or in the browser?

How many customers does it take to reformat an old Palm device?

First steps to a new publishing platform.

“U2 3D” and the price of innovation.

Looking for a new hosting provider. I think.

Amazingly, most of the software on my computer is owned by me.

I’ll never be an Apple TV customer. For now.

Text Expander 2.0 is a great use of .Mac, but that doesn’t mean I can’t complain anyway.

Enterprise software as cross-species aberrations of nature.

The way you use your software should stick with you.

Three examples of unglamorous, indispensible software.

Let’s hope .Mac gets better tomorrow. Plus: how to own more than one iPhone.

How it all turned out with my new toy, at least for now.

Ways in which I’m definitely not planning on acquiring my own iPhone.

Transportation narcolepsy, continuous partial attention and interface addiction. All in one post!

The software that ships with most hardware is a missed opportunity.

I want the Wii out of my living room, and why Nintendo should help.

Who to favor when designing features.

Sovereign and auxiliary postures and language as factors in updating my friends on what I’m doing.

What three installers have to say about the software they deliver.

The Palm O.S. blew it, and why the new iPhone is a typographic milestone.

Why the Apple Phone and iTunes shouldn’t get too cozy.

My obligatory blog post about Apple’s upcoming mobile phone, focusing on what it probably won’t do.

Looking ahead at all the social networks I’ll join in 2007.

Casting about for a replacement personal banking application.

Movable Type maintenance in progress here.

Problems publishing this blog that shouldn’t require anyone smarter than me to fix.

Switching away from Rosetta apps means ditching Entourage.

Coping with my new Intel-based iMac.

A surefire way for Adobe to hit a home run.

At long last, OmniWeb 5.5 is out of beta, and it’s just like it was.

At long last, it’s time to buy a new Mac.

Looking for help in the world of spam.

Coming changes and changes that should be coming to instant messaging.

I’m trying to send back my potentially explosive PowerBook battery, but Apple won’t let me.

A free link aliasing utility I built just for you.

Hoping someone will create a Cocoa version of kGTD with a true database.

A novice’s step-by-step for getting this Linux distribution on your Mac.

I’m switching to Linux… for just a bit.

Disaappointment and signs of synchronicity at Apple’s 2006 World Wide Developers Conference.

Wrapping up my appearance and attendance at An Event Apart New York City.

Just published in today’s Guardian: my article on software that works like a typewriter.

Software that helpfully lets you know when it’s time to update is actually not helpful at all.

A software brainstorm of mine makes some strides towards reality.

Software has a cost, no matter what anyone tells you.

The time for a truly user-friendly mobile phone from Cupertino is now.

How to turn your computer into a manual typewriter.

Lamenting the state of affairs for Six Apart’s pioneering blog publishing software.

A new links section raises some issues with CSS text control.

Boot Camp is the most adventurous OS idea Apple has had in twenty-one years, which is too bad.

Groping with the gobbledygook of home networking.

The intrepid cousin to Firefox makes releases its version 1.0 today.

After a scare a few weeks ago, the internal drive on my PowerBook finally checked out.

Cut off from POP3 access at work, I’m forced to resort to webmail.

If you turn a long URL into a short one, shouldn’t it be all yours?

Things are looking up: I didn’t buy a new Mac and my hard drive crashed.

It’s Microsoft country over here.

Nifty image manipulation in Mac OS X Tiger and the bad old days.

There’s something missing from Apple’s Macintosh hardware offerings.

Tantalizingly close but still miles away from the perfect media center.

For me, Writeboard is probably the most useful 37signals application yet.

Even recent improvements to Apple’s Web services leave much to be desired.

Encountering the spirit of Bob Metcalfe on a train.

Looking for a trackball for the 21st Century.

The fact that most of us only have one mobile phone handset has always struck me as pretty lame.

Despite being publicly dismissive of PDAs and wireless data, I bought a Treo 650.

Billing customers got you down? Try Blinksale.

Camino, king of the uphill battle.

The palmOne LifeDrive Mobile Manager is a PDA that almost made me forget I don’t like PDAs. Almost.

Fireworks is better, but the whole damn category of web design software kind of sucks.

Some thoughts on Apple’s move from PowerPC to Intel.

Mac OS X’s unheralded dictionary feature is great.

Mac OS X’s synchronization technology makes less sense than ever.

Some comments on 37signals’ new online application.

Mac OS X Tiger is finally here, but I’ve been taking my own sweet time installing it.

Ask for some kind of software that you don’t think exists, and ye shall receive.

I can’t figure out how people are managing projects on the Macintosh.

Until last week, you could count me among the podcasting skeptics.

Thoughts on Adobe’s announced acquisition of Macromedia.

For years, I’ve been nursing a daydream of an extended vacation spent learning to program.

RSS feeds take a lot of energy, but where do people find the time?

The continuously degrading performance of home broadband.

There’s a great design opportunity in wikis — except it looks like someone else got there first.

Subway thefts of iPods are up in New York City, sending me into the market for new earbuds.

We’re living in a secret agent future, where everything is locked away.

Why it’s not completely crazy to expect the Mac OS to remain stable under duress from third-party system enhancements.

Mac OS X and its susceptibility to the effects of accretion.

On the third day, the second report from SXSW.

Something about music collections makes some people very, very fussy.

How much I really, really dislike Apple’s recent lawsuits.

With all of these Macs, what use could I possibly have for another?

Putting an end to a decade’s worth of video fun.

On the cusp of buying myself an iPod shuffle, it occurs to me that I really don’t like to shuffle.

XML feeds for Subtraction.com have been revamped. Go wild!

I’ll take one of everything announced at Macworld Expo this morning.

Rumors in advance of next week’s Macworld Expo have me a little worked up.

An auspicious beginning for my brand new Vonage account.

The Matias Tactile Pro Keyboard inspires more discussion of keyboard technologies than is probably healthy.

Looking for a USB hub that works the way USB hubs are supposed to.

What’s the name of that song that goes, “Doo de dum de doo… you know the one I’m talkin’ about?

The new iPod Photo is just a big tease.

Report on my trial period with NetNewsWire 2.0 beta.

Wouldn’t be great to have a true Apple sub-notebook? Keep dreaming.

Just a moment to say goodbye to my Sony VAIO PCG-SR7K. Sniff.

Apple’s new iMac doesn’t follow through on its tradition of innovation.

Motorola’s new Bluetooth phone is everything I’ve been waiting for, except it᾿s not.

It’s child’s play to draw a square with a computer. Unless you’re using PowerPoint.

What a wonderful way Toshiba has of greeting its users for the very first time.

Though I just started using ecto, I already have a complaint.

How much is spam protection worth, and who benefits from it?

Real plays the barbarian at Apple’s gates, and for once, I’m rooting for Real.

More thoughts on my new Sony Ericsson T608.

First day with a new version of Microsoft Office for Macintosh.

Is Bluetooth all it’s cracked up to be?

Recommended math for those tempted by Sony.

How I rode a chunk of text from email to Keynote.

Mellel is a great word processor, but it almost doesn’t matter.

The reality of security comes to Mac OS X.

PulpFiction is finally here, and this is what I think of it.

Mac users: don’t throw away your mouse just yet.

I found a little bit of old New York when I tried to get a typewriter repaired.

Don’t underestimate the attachment that one can form to a good pair of headphones.

The search for the perfect XML news reader.

Community building is messy business with phpBB.

How the Apple Store solved all of my problems.

Making a copy of what you own is illegal. Damn activist judges!

Signs of a healthy software ecosystem.

Aside from the branding, not enough has changed in the Adobe Creative Suite.

No one believes that Entourage and the Mac OS X Address Book can be bridged. Except me.

Starting over from scratch is not always easy. Especially with Windows.

Quick thoughts on what was announced at 2004’s Macworld Expo SF and what wasn’t.

A way-back machine for writers.

What the Canon PowerShot SD10 lacks in optical zoom, it makes up for in compactness.

Instant Messenger spamming’s got me down.

Now that I can finally leave Sprint PCS, I probably won’t.

What a brand new, untouched Windows desktop looks like.

A year with five Alienware machines and an HP.

Picasa is a rip-off of iPhoto that adds its own innovations.

How I upgraded to Mac OS X Panther.

So, so ready to throw caution to the wind and install Panther.

iTunes for Windows brings the whole family together.

When you want to make a point, PowerPoint will help you not make it.

Why I could care less if musicians get paid.

All you have to do to get this Cisco wireless PC card working is download the software. I swear.

The startling true secrets behind Web Confidential.

Here’s a quick complaint about online ticket purchasing for highly popular events: it has a long way to go.

How I threw away all of the manuals for my home electronics.

There’s a frustrating defect lurking in every digital product you buy.

A round-up of some recent, uncharacteristically high quality articles about the Mac.

Going wireless is hard to do.

The future of television came to my house today.

Hog Bay Notebook is a smart and simple ‘snippet keeper.’

Browsers are to blame for how bad BuyMusic.com is — partly.

Is the Apple premium really worth it?

Sick, laid up in bed, and using remote access software.

Upgrading an old Macintosh.yields surprisingly good results.

Two reasons why I’m sure there will be another Internet boom.

In the battle for online music content, EMusic beats out the iTunes Music Store.

The pros and cons of ink jet printing.

My iPod has instilled in me a disturbing insatiability for more music, more often.

Longtime, well-liked software publisher Casady & Greene have closed shop.

With a new 80GB hard drive replacement, everything on my PowerBook has to be reinstalled from scratch.

This preview of “Half-Life 2” is ridiculous.

Microsoft confirmed rumors of the cancellation of IE for the Mac today.

The latest iSync doesn’t sync enough.

It’s impossible to find blank CD-Rs without branding on the labels.

Two questions: should I buy a TiVo and should I subscribe to digital cable?

Sprint PCS wants everything that can be digital to be digital.

Nokia’s N-Gage could be the first widely succesful hybridization of mobile phone and whatever.

The annual spring show for NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program begins today.

What to do with an aging PowerBook?

The FCC is set to vote on significant changes in media ownership rules, virtually without public debate.

This video of a 1968 Douglas Englebart presentation is historically significant and uncommonly beautiful.

The debut of Apple’s online music service is singularly elegant and overeagerly hyped.

MP3 Sushi is one example of the powerful, exceptionally easy-to-use software being written for Mac OS X.

SixApart Ltd., makers of Movable Type, are really on the move, and it signals the next phase of Internet innovation.

Mac OS X has inspired some of the best technical writing the platform has seen in years.

LaunchBar is a utility so powerful, it’s eerily evocative of the absurd computers we tend to see only in the movies.

It was on this day thirty years ago that the very first mobile phone call was made.

RSS is fun, and NetNewsWire is a great RSS client.

Motorola’s somewhat self-serving “Mobile” exhibit is no big deal.

A marriage made in heaven: Google has bought Pyra.

Business Week calls the music industry’s piracy numbers — and credibility — into question.

Microsoft’s Remote Desktop Connection client is a great cross-platform product.

This is just about the cutest little laptop ever.

To help cure my RSI: a brand new Wacom Intuous 2 digitizing tablet.

RSI strikes!

The compact disc format turned 30 this week, and NPR’s “Morning Edition’ is running a series on the history of technological innovations in music.

This is the story of a boy and his chat bot.

Just got Movable Type installed. Whee!

I’m seriously considering switching over to Movable Type.

The Chill Factor Web site collects frightening samples of the corporate world’s legal bullying.

I sheepishly admit that “Computers, An Illustrated History” is probably the perfect book for me.

SpamNet has a plan for getting rid of spam.

A notable quote from Lawrence Lessig.

Just added some more RAM to my PowerBook. Aaaahhh.

Jaguar is great, and so is the software that runs on it.

Lawrence Lessig has a wake-up call for anyone frustrated with the way media companies are trying to dominate copyright controls.

Oh yeah, I remember bookmarklets.

What good comes of MacHack?

We just bought two new Wintel laptops at Behavior.

A weekend without my cable modem.

It’s now possible to have your own little droid.

OpenOffice.org aims to kick the shit out of Microsoft Office.

Aren’t you curious about my experiences with the D-Link DP-101P+ Pocket Print Server?

Replay TV goes on the offensive.

Citibank has a great product in their Virtual Account Numbers.

OQO is promising a micro-PC that’s too cool to be real.

My new HP Pavilion 701 is working out just fine.

Bert Monroy makes art with computers that doesn’t look like art made with computers.

Aping that System 6 aesthetic.

Training super-hackers for the government.

Trying to keep expectations low for “Episode II.”

Winners of Apple’s Design Awards.

Internet radio at risk.

Oddpost os an enterprising upstart challenge to all those other Web email services that just stink.

The latest addition to my hardware family is an Epson Stylus C80.

Vindigo moves to a paid subscription model.

Corporate intrigue over at HP.

Sony Japan has announced some beautiful new Palm OS devices.

Flash MX is here.

Just purchased a CanoScan N1240U.

MovieLens recommends movies to you.

Google is doing some interesting stuff.

Deep down, Wintel owners really want their PC’s to look as good as a Mac.

Cisco has a vision for the future.

The White Stripes a la Legos.

Blogger Pro is here.

Honda is working hard to bring you humanoid robots.

Notes from the Blogger Pro demonstration.

Cable modem goes out for an afternoon.

Dave Winer is all about blogging.

Playing around with Mac OS X.

Looking forward to 2002 being a heck of a lot better than 2001.

Net radio-enabled stereos are a good idea.

Michael Lewis got “Next.”

Happy birthday to me and Behavior.

Community-owned wireless access.

Problems with Palm, resolved through chat.

Subtraction now has search capability.

Admitting complicity in the dot-com bubble.

A promising hybrid of a phone and a Palm device.

Using Groove to collaborate after losing my job.

NASA’s Landsat program has produced some beautiful images.

How I learned to forget Napster and get on with KaZaA.

I’m pleasantly surprised by the latest version of Netscape.

Photoshop through the ages.

Sony takes another swing at the Palm game.

How to get the weather from your morning toast.

Majestic is a new-breed video game that invades your life.

TheFutureofSoftware.net dabbles in speculation on, er, the future of Software.

Robert X. Cringley offers a primer on XML in his latest column.

Cable modem access comes to my apartment.

The Palm OS is testing my patience.

Media Unbound recommends music for you.

At long last, Apple’s next generation operating system has arrived.

A beautiful illustration of how touchscreen computing works.

ActiveBuddy makes over instant messaging.

The long-awaited release of Mac OS X is just two months away.

The cutest and funniest computer I’ve ever seen.

Ars Technica takes an in-depth look at Macworld San Francisco 2001.

Steven Johnson takes a look at the anachronistic UI metaphors in music software.

Bill Hewlett, pionering co-founder of HP, passed away a few days ago.

The new Titanium PowerBook aside, what the heck is Apple’s long-term gameplan?

Sony has introduced MP3-capable CD players, to the dismay of its Sony Music division.

The Sony PCG-SR7K is the best computer I’ve ever owned.