June 6, 2011 – A haunted house? Yes please. A crowded house? Sure, as long as someone's always playing "Don't Dream It's Over." But one thing I could not stand is a rainy house, like this one, which will be rainy for the entire month of June. Australian art and design collective The Glue Society have put together... More »

June 6, 2011 – Love Twitpics (or Lockerz now or whatever?) but hate having to open them individually every time you see one pop up in your overstuffed Twitter timeline? More »

June 6, 2011 – It seemed like Apple was poised to let iTunes in the cloud be an officially-purchased-music affair only, but the One More Thing this year was a bit of a curveball: More »

June 6, 2011 – This was just one of the many new features that didn't warrant more than a sneeze at the end of the iOS 5 portion of today's keynote, but it's an awesome one: More »

June 6, 2011 – Smartphone cameras are the new, ya know, real cameras, and iOS 5 is gonna make the iPhone's camera a hell of a lot easier to use. First and foremost: HARDWARE SHUTTER BUTTON. More »

June 6, 2011 – Yes. Oh yes, yes, yes. Mobile Safari in iOS5 will bring real tabbed browsing to the iPhone and iPad. I can't express how much I hate that little tab thumbnail button, so this makes me happy as a clam. More »

June 6, 2011 – From the looks of things, OSX is all about refinement: finding the rough edges of personal computing and smoothing them out into a nice polish. One of the roughest edges? More »

June 6, 2011 – OSX Lion is coming. iOS5 is coming. iCloud is coming. The banners for these products are already flapping in Moscone Center's air conditioned wind. But what is behind this mystery banner, shrouded in black? More »

May 31, 2011 – They're small, they're powerful, and they're finally here. Pages, Numbers, and Keynote for the iPhone are packed with features, proving just how extensive pocket-size productivity can be. More »

May 23, 2011 – In this age of excess, there's one thing we could all use a little more of: Nature! It's life giving and life affirming. It's all around us. And yet, most of us still don't know it all that well. More »

May 9, 2011 – Your voice! It's the only instrument you always carry with you. Unless you're that weird guy who always walks around with a harmonica in his pocket. But for most of us, it's the voice. More »

May 4, 2011 – Woodstock is perhaps the single most mythologized pop culture event of the '60s, perhaps the most mythologized decade in pop culture history. And because your hippie aunt's account of the historic concert can't really be trusted (if she did it right), the interactive On the Way to Woodstock app is... More »

May 3, 2011 – The iPad's native iPod app isn't particularly pretty nor easy to use—you either get a dense list of artist names or a scattershot cover view—but even if it did get a swell redesign, it's hard to imagine it existing in the same universe as the breathtaking cosmic music player Planetary. More »

April 28, 2011 – While the iPad has ramped up my of internet reading considerably, I still prefer to tackle books in their physical form, largely because there's no real advantage to reading them on the tablet. More »

April 26, 2011 – Here's a problem you might have encountered: you're boppin' along to a song on your computer when you realize it's time to leave. So in addition to putting on socially acceptable clothes and making sure you have your keys, you have to tap, tap, tap your way to that same song on your iPhone, too. More »

April 26, 2011 – This week, a sperm bike makes donor deliveries, the first EV built by Porsche 100 years ago, an iPhone infographic, find out if you're in a nuclear hot zone, a couple cool gadget-y videos and more! More »

April 25, 2011 – The weather is easy to come by these days, what with mobile apps and desktop widgets and the windows in your wall and all that. But sometimes that dry meteorological data can be deceiving. More »

April 22, 2011 – In this week's app roundup: Panoramas, produced; Sword & Sworcery EP, miniaturized, slit-scan photography, discovered; mobile browsing, made social; Wikipedia, beautified; More »

April 22, 2011 – Photosynth: Basically, Photosynth is a panorama photography app. It's got Microsoft's Photosynth engine under the hood, stitching together as many shots of a given area-up, down, left, and right-as you feel like snapping to create a surprisingly smooth model of the space. More »

April 22, 2011 – Qwiki: Qwiki for iPad, like their website, is like a visual Wikipedia. Which is to say it's a super pretty way to learn stuff. How so? Instead of delivering information in text and hyperlinks, Qwiki provides a narrative to the topics you search for with an audio commentary and relevant visuals. More »