Asking the Crowd to Spread the News
"Web 2.0," as I understand it, refers to Web sites whose contents are supplied by us, the people. What would Flickr be without its photos, YouTube without the videos, Craigslist without the ads, eBay...
View ArticleYou Photoshop me! You really Photoshop me!
OK, I'm always happy to accept recognition in any form. But a "Use Photoshop to turn David Pogue into a badass" competition? Wow, thanks, Gizmodo! ...I think.
View ArticleOnStar for Lost Cellphones
Another gem from my e-mail box, this time from my former intern Josh: I have a brilliant idea: we need OnStar for cellphones. Think of it: you call AT&T OnStar and tell them your phone is lost. The...
View ArticleThe Psychology of Numeracy
In this month's Wired magazine, columnist Clive Thompson makes an outrageous and thought-provoking claim: that geeks like Bill Gates are better suited to comprehending the world's problems than...
View ArticleDigital School Pictures at Last
Tomorrow is elementary-school picture day for my kids. It's one of those deals where you have to order the prints and sizes you want *before* you even see the photo, which has never seemed quite fair....
View ArticleShort and Very Sweet
In tomorrow's paper, or right now online, you can read my review of the XO laptop, the "$100 laptop" created by One Laptop Per Child in hopes of bringing learning to the children of the world's poor...
View ArticleReturn of the iPhone Apps
Man, I'm getting whiplash. I feel like I'm watching a global Internet game of ping-pong. First Apple kept quiet as the hacker community dreamed up all these wicked-cool "hacks" (add-on programs) for...
View ArticleOne Question Answered
Holy cripes, I'm blown away by the number of responses to my "Pogue's Imponderables." 450 responses in the first 36 hours! Lots of thoughtful answers. Some nihilism about the underlying greed and...
View ArticlePogue on CNBC
If you don't catch the David Pogue videos on CNBC, you can watch them on CNBC's Web site and, of course, on nytimes.com.
View ArticleToward Friendlier Skies
David Pogue reports on the Federal Aviation Administration's new technology that aims to relieve the nightmarish congestion our air-traffic system faces right now.
View ArticleA Music-Recognition Breakthrough
O.K., whoa. I just read about a new computer program that can listen to a recorded chord in music and figure out what notes are in it. May not sound like much, but it's never been done before. The best...
View ArticleA Primer on Smart Cards
David Pogue talks to Randy Vanderhoof, executive director of the Smart Card Alliance, about smart card technology.
View ArticleYahoo's Answer to Speech Recognition for Your Cellphone
David Pogue tests another voice recognition program for cellphones, OneSearch with Voice, from Yahoo.
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