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13 Ways I’d Change the iPhone’s Interface…if I Could

For a year now, an amazing number of people have assumed I own an iPhone. Until last week, I had to politely correct them. (My phone of late has been an AT&T Tilt.) I hadn’t bought a...

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Goners! 10 Websites That Didn’t Deserve to Die

The World Wide Web is such a young medium that many of the best sites from its earliest days are still very much still with us, such as Yahoo (founded in 1994), Amazon.com (1994), CNET (1994), eBay...

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The First $1000 iPhone Application

iPhone developer Armin Heinrich has released an application for the iPhone with two noteworthy characteristics: 1) Its primary function is to display a handsome glowing red jewel on your iPhone’s...

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An Open Letter to Windows Vista

Dear Windows Vista, First of all, I’m sorry it took me so long to sit down and write this letter. You’ve been an unusually busy operating system lately, starting with the official (if less than...

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A Brief History of Internet Outages

Someday we’ll all tell our grandkids about what we were doing during the great Gmail outage of August 11th, 2008. Well, okay, probably not–Google’s e-mail service was down for only a couple of hours,...

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A Brief Reverse-Chronological YouTube History of Apple

The history of Apple is so long and interesting that some amazingly weighty tomes have been written about it. But I don’t think you need to pore over hundreds of pages to get the gist of the company’s...

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Are Macs More Expensive? Let’s Do the Math Once and For All

[UPDATE: This is one of the most popular stories we’ve ever published, but with the arrival of the new MacBook on October 14th, it’s also obsolete. Read it if you like–but this new article compares the...

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