David Pogue Parodies Britney Spears With "Apps!...I Did It Again"

Memories of mornings spent singing into a hairbrush flooded back as I listened to this Apple-themed rendition of Britney Spears' Oops...I did it again being performed by David Pogue. He could have a heck of a pop star career. More »

David Pogue: "Smartphone Is Too Limited...It's An App Phone"

Before David Pogue wrote his review of the Droid, he had trouble deciding what to call the device. He argued that "smartphone" is an outdated label for the "iPhone-like" devices coming out and so he looked for a new one. More »

Pogue: AT&T Drops Inane Paging Option From Voicemail Chatter

David Pogue says AT&T is officially cutting back the robo-banter you hear when leaving voicemail. It's not fully stripped, but you won't hear the "page this person" nonsense anymore. Nice one, Dave. We support you in your cause. [NYT]

David Pogue Says Sony DSC-WX1 Is the Best Low Light Point-and-Shoot

Low light camera functionality is the most important advancement in point-and-shoots "since image stabilization came along," says Sir David Pogue. In his latest, he takes a look the Fujifilm FinePix F200EXR and the Sony DSC-WX1's handling of no-flash allowed situations. More »

"Take Back the Beep" Voicemail Crusade Takes Back Its First Beeps

Who knew David Pogue's consumer insurrection against scummy, minute-hoarding voicemail messages would actually work? Sir David would like to report that most major carriers have at least responded to the campaign, and AT&T is cutting down on message length. More »

A Rallying Cry Against Scummy Carrier Voicemail Messages

The New York Times' David Pogue is sick and damned tired of wireless carriers wasting our time and our minutes with their intentionally drawn out voicemail messages. And he wants your help to get them to change. More »

Congress: Stop Wasting Time Trying for a Verizon iPhone and Actually Help Us Out

The New York Times' David Pogue has a great story condemning Congress for trying to outlaw exclusivity contracts instead of implementing changes in the cellphone industry that would actually benefit consumers. Down with those outlandish, unfair fees! More »

David Pogue Piano Solo Imagines a World Without Apple or Gadgets

Here's the humorous David Pogue singing about a world without Apple in a way that only, well, David Pogue could pull off.

NYTimes: Pogue's Livescribe Pulse Smartpen Video

David Pogue has a quick video review of Livescribe's Pulse Smartpen that does a very good job of illustrating the concept. Worth watching on top of our own review. [Pogue's Livescribe Pulse Smartpen Video review]

Pogue Reviews Sony A300 DSLR: Live View "Perfection"

The big shebang on Sony's latest entry-level DSLRs, the a300 and a350, is their two-way tilt-y live view. Pogueman takes a peek today and really digs it: "Live View on existing cameras is slow, noisy and deeply confusing" but on the a300 it's "a completely different experience." More »

More Sling Player Upgrades Coming

Pogue reviews the Slingbox Solo, but the news is that the Sling Client is getting an upgrade in the shape of local pause and rewind controls. That's cool because you don't have to deal with the stream delay while trying to rewind or pause the TiVo back home remotely. More »

Pogue Reviews the OLPC

David Pogue is right about the OLPC in his NYTimes column this week. For those of you who haven't kept up with the changes in the One Laptop Per Child he sums it up nicely, demoing all the engineering miracles in the machine, addressing the low minded complaints of "snarky bloggers" (Where?!), going on to explain why it's an interesting and important thing for the developing world. The video does a great job, so I'll recommend you watch the video above. It definitely convinced me: Even more so than water or malaria shots or food, kids in third world countries need this PC. (David, I'm kidding. Nice column this week.) [NYTimes]

Pogue and Woz in the Geeks on Board Cruise Documentary DVD

Director Abe Greenwald just released his documentary of what goes on during Geeks on Board cruises, featuring Woz and David Pogue, among others. This is a trailer. Best part is when they go ashore to some exotic local and everyone lays on the beach far from the water, with laptops in tow. Gotta be hard to see the screens under those conditions, eh? [Amazon]

Pogue Sees Eye-to-Eye With Vudu Video-on-Demand Box (Verdict: Mostly Great)

Pushing out his review a bit before the official embargo lifted last night, our favorite Times wonder-reporter put the video store in a box, Vudu, through its paces and walked away mostly happy with the experience. Brownie points for: picture quality, slick five-button remote, pay-per-flick, and truly instant viewing. Buts: More »

David Pogue reviews macro software that'll speed up your computer usage; he ends up with a list of 5 for the Mac and PC you might find useful. [NYT]

Pogue Reviews Waterproof Cams, Sanyo Xacti E1 Floats Above the Competition

Pogue takes a a few waterproof cams down to the local waterpark for testing and finds Sanyo's 6MP Xacti E1 to be of better image and video quality than the rest. I've always found the Xacti cam's nice, but the low light performance to be lacking. That doesn't matter when you're talking about beach and pool time, however. I believe its image quality is better than the other cams in this roundup, but it's only rated to 5 feet of depth. More »

iPhone Applecare $80$69 For an Extra Year, Says Pogue [UPDATED: Confirmed]

[UPDATED: Confirmed at $69.] Applecare is supposed to be available for the iPhone this month, and the price may be $80. Joel Johnson, walker-of-Gizmodo-halls-of-lore, noticed this statement in Pogue's Missing Manual PDF, on page 277: "The iPhone comes with a one-year warranty. If you buy an Applecare contract ($80) you're covered for a second year. If, during the coverage period, anything goes wrong that's not your fault, Apple will fix it for free." Apple neither confirms or denies this price, but The NYTimes tech columnist is pretty damn good as far as sources go. [UPDATE: Nope, this wasn't a final copy of the book, so it will have to be corrected at $69.][iPhone Missing Manual via JJ's Dethroner]

Nobody Picks on Pogue But Me

OMG, the internet is beating up Pogue for his iPhone video. We like picking on the guy, even when we're praising the authoritative, yet mainstream-accessible NYTimes gadget columnist. (See our photoshop contest entitled "Make David Pogue Cool".) And we've had our share of blog fights with the guy. But when I see the Huff Po, Valleywag, and others take shots at him without understanding how annoying it was for a gadget journalist to actually have to make a fair verdict of the iPhone amidst the buzz and anti-buzz, well, it doesn't seem right. I mean, just because you hate your job doesn't mean the rest of us have to. It's a phone, relax, people. More »

The iPhone Period Trick

Some of you iPhone users have been complaining about the period key being banished to the numbers and symbols keyboard layout. Well quit your whining, here's a quick and easy way to get around that. All you have to do is press and hold the numbers key, and without lifting your finger slide it over to the period (or any other punctuation mark) and let go. Ba-da-bing you've got yourself a period and the keyboard has automatically switched back to letters again. More »

Pogue's iPhone Video Review

This is why we love Pogue. He reviews it, goes meta, and gives Mossberg a poke. And btw, he hates AT&T's EDGE network. [NYT]

Make David Pogue the Badass that he Deserves to Be

We love David Pogue here at Gizmodo. The NY Times tech guru is a playful geek whose love and passion for all things gadgety shines through with every over-the-top video he makes. He is not, however, the coolest guy in the world. Look, no disrespect, but you're no Justin Timberlake, David. More »

Pogue on Email For Dumb Phones

Pogue's video tells us how to read our email on Dumb Phones. (You like that? That's my name for every handset not a Treo, Windows Mobile, or BlackBerry.) More »

David Pogue's "Geek to Me" Show Airs Tonight

Set the TiVo! David Pogue's new show Science Channel show, which he writes and stars in, starts tonight. More »

NYTimes' Pogue Tests High Def Hard Drive Camcorders

Pogue's back from vacation, and this week, he's taking a look at high def hard drive camcorders (or, HDHD camcorders), marveling at the gadgets that giving your boring home videos the same picture pizazz as professional HD content. In his words, the picture is "sharp enough to slice a tomato." And your goofy dad will never tape over old content ever again because he accidentally hit rewind bfore hitting record. More »

NYT Pulp Watch: Pogue Spanks Sansa's Connect for Lame Yahoo! Connection

David Pogue of the NY Times saw so much potential in the Sansa Connect, the Wi-Fi music player that can tap into Yahoo's big online database without a PC in sight. But it disappointed him. And you know what happens when daddy is disappointed. Spankings. More »

NYT Pulp Bite: Pogue on 802.11n-ightmare Routers

Not an easy two weeks for the Poguester. First, he pulls an all-nighter putting together last week's video. And this week, he spends four days trying to get the N routers from Belkin, Linksys and Netgear running at the claimed speeds. That 300Mbps rating? It must have been measured on the moon, he quips. More »

NYT Pulp Bite: Pogue on Why TiVo Still Rocks

I am 100% in accordance with Pogue's reasons why TiVo Series 3 is still an important gadget that deserves your love. And David blows away last week's off-topic video with an animated deathmatch of TiVo versus a generic cable box. TiVo wins, all courtesy of broadband bits! More »

My David Pogue Obsession Continues: Latest NYT Gadget Video Has Boobs, Arson and Snark

[Updated for improved fairness] What the shit is this? I think New York Times' David Pogue just challenged the Internet to a gadget-video deathmatch. I just saw this video where he cranks an iPod speaker backpack to 11 in a quiet library, has a bikini'd babe dunk it in a hot tub, and finally drenches it in lighter fluid and sets it ablaze. More »

Apple TV Pulp Bite: NYT's Pogue Faces-Off the Streamer with Foes; PC Mag Goes Deep

Mossberg's review and video were straight up. Let's face it: He didn't need any fancy angling other than the 10-day lead he had on everyone, including nemesis (by publication), David Pogue. More »

PogueWatch: David Goes Nuts on NYTimes Gadget Video

The last two weeks of David Pogue videos on the NYTimes website have shown us that the guy has totally cracked. And he has more fun at work than we do. More »

The NYTimes' Pogue: Obsessed with Nikon's Superzoom Lens

While David Pogue, the brain behind the Grey Lady's tech coverage, is on his geek cruise in the Carribean, he's had some "close up" time with a Nikon DSLR and a 18-200mm, vibration reducing lens. That's enough focal range to cover a Macworld Keynote from the thirtieth row back, and also get wide angle closeups of new iPods after. We have to agree with him in saying that's quite a hot piece of glass. (Our words.) More »

Tech Journo Trivia: David Pogue the Elton John of Gadgets

I was surprised when NYT's tech journo David Pogue's most recent blog post was written as a song Hazing to the RIAA. His lead claimed that he had a music past as a Broadway conductor and arranger, which a little emailing and googling confirmed. More »

Pogue Follows Up on Netiquette Debate

We tend to poke fun at the New York Times' David Pogue a lot around here, but we want to make it clear that we kid because we love. David is like the wacky yet dorky uncle of the tech journalism world, how could we not like him? More »