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The so-called "four horsemen" of Apple product reviews have weighed in on the near weightless MacBook Air. You may have seen our post on it last night. You may have even caught one or two of the reviews. But only now can you sit back and enjoy the best quotes from all four reviews in a handy easy-to-read review matrix from your friends at Gizmodo. More »
Our MacBook Air Review Matrix
The so-called "four horsemen" of Apple product reviews have weighed in on the near weightless MacBook Air. You may have seen our post on it last night. You may have even caught one or two of the reviews. But only now can you sit back and enjoy the best quotes from all four reviews in a handy easy-to-read review matrix from your friends at Gizmodo. More »
9:00 AM on Thu Jan 24 2008
By Wilson Rothman
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Where Is David Pogue's MacBook Air Review?
Wednesday night around this time, we like to check in with our favorite columnists. Tonight we expected MacBook Air reviews from Walt Mossberg at WSJ, Ed Baig at USA Today, Steven Levy at Newsweek and of course, David Pogue at the venerable New York Times. Only, when I refreshed my browser at 9pm, Pogue's Jan. 24 State of the Art column turned out to cover Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac and MacSpeech Dictate, rather than the far sexier (and more controversial) MacBook Air. UPDATE: Pogue scoops the other A-Team members by reviewing the Macbook Air on the Macworld show floor. His response in the comments. [First MacBook Air Reviews]
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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 »
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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 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]
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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]
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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]
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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 »
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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:
3:17 PM on Thu Jul 19 2007
By Brian Lam
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Latest by richard8a: WTG Giz. This has been on the Apple page for a while, now. It takes no longer than 30 seconds to find this info. more »
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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 »
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Opinions Side-By-Side In Our iPhone Review Matrix
If you were too lazy to actually read the four iPhone reviews that came out last night, we've done the hard part and stuck the most salient tidbits into a chart, hoping to see both agreement and dissent among the elders: David Pogue of the New York Times, Walt Mossberg of the Wall Street Journal, Ed Baig of USA Today and Steven Levy of Newsweek. (What happened to Lev Grossman at Time Magazine? He usually gets the Apple stuff early too.) Jump for our painstakingly created review matrix—it's fun to notice what words they all use, and when one totally disagrees with the rest. More »
10:03 AM on Wed Jun 27 2007
By Wilson Rothman
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Latest by piotrj: when the specs on the phone first came out i was generally unimpressed. until i get the chance to play around with it, i will remain unimpressed by it. i was also annoyed by all the hype drummed up by more »
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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]
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]
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Breaking: Pogue Reviews the iPhone, Gives it 1.5 Thumbs Up
David Pogue of the NYTimes got his iPhone review up (the first one by 3 minutes. Suck it, Mossberg!), oh boy! So what's he think of it? Well, he likes it. Sort of. He's taken with the design, but has some reservations overall. More »
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Winners of the David Pogue Photoshop Contest
Sorry for the delay on this, folks. We had to run the results through our computers here to make sure they were up to snuff, and you know that takes time. But we're finished, and without further ado, I present to you the three winners of the "Make David Pogue a Badass" Photoshop contest, each of which will be receiving an autographed copy of the Pogue book of their choice. Congrats to the winners, and thanks so much to everyone who participated! You're all winners in my eyes. Look for another Pshop contest in the coming weeks. More »
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Pogue Finds the Best Reasonably-Priced Noise-Cancelling Headphones
NY Times badass David Pogue took a look at noise-canceling headphones, looking for a pair that can match the quality of Bose's QuietComfort 3's without the ridiculously high price ($350[!!!). What he found were a bunch of pairs that did the job decently, and a couple that came close enough to the QuietComforts to make spending $350 an option only a real sucker would choose. More »
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David Pogue: Now a Badass, at Least in this Gallery
Man, you guys love to Photoshop David Pogue. I received over 100 entries to my challenge to make the NY Times tech guru cool, and it was a lot of fun going through them all. Mr. Pogue himself offered to send autographed copies of whichever of his books the top 3 winners would like, so look for a post about determining a top 3 later on. Until then, here are the best 24 entries as judged by me in no particular order. Sure, I'm not an unbiased judge (both entries with my picture got in, not just because I'm in there but also because they're the most insane), but I'm all you people have got. I chose entries that were either technically amazing or funny with some effort shown, even if the skill wasn't all there. More »
3:30 PM on Mon Jun 4 2007
By Adam Frucci
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Latest by NOIRtist: I'm with shred on this one, lol. I'm assuming mass amounts of Fonzie/Pogue mashups were sent in. But I thought mine came out pretty damn good, so I want to share it with the Gizmasses. http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b230/saintjezter/humor/D... And my intentions are not more »
