A Tech-Filled Life, Without Power
Thursday, March 18, 2010

My family has now been without electricity, heat or hot water for five days. I gotta tell you: it's getting old. .. read more..

Photo Tip: Slowing a Babbling Brook
Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Try photographing a babbling brook on a sunny day. Here's the trick to avoiding an overexposed shot. .. read more..

Why I Prefer External Chargers
Friday, March 12, 2010

Is it better to have in-camera battery rechargers or external recharges? .. read more..

Microsoft's Free Sync Service
Thursday, March 11, 2010

Live Sync, offered for free from Microsoft, allows you to sync your computers with each other, magically, over the Internet, with no effort on your part. .. read more..

A Closer Look at Windows Live
Thursday, March 4, 2010

There are a couple of whopping great features Windows Live, available to everyone (even non-Windows people), that are totally underpublicized. .. read more..

Marketers on Facebook Find Photo Tagging
Monday, March 1, 2010

Marketers are making inroads into Facebook. .. read more..

Photoshop and Photography: When Is It Real?
Thursday, February 25, 2010

If you were running a photography contest, at what point would you draw the line and say "That's not photography anymore?" .. read more..

Will Carriers Offer a Better Way to Get Voicemail?
Thursday, February 18, 2010

We all should have known that it boils down to money. Tedious voicemail recordings make it; fixing the system costs it. .. read more..

A Reader's Ode to the iPad
Friday, February 12, 2010

As longtime Pogophiles know, I'm fond of writing new lyrics (about the tech industry) to old melodies. But today, I've got some competition. Here's a clever song parody by reader Peter Weisz... .. read more..

Why We Make Home Videos
Thursday, February 4, 2010

As you may be aware, we're about to enter a whole new era of data rot, one of the biggest and most personal of all: consumer videotape is going away. .. read more..