I’ve heard a lot of comments lately saying something along the lines of, “Coin, Plastc and Wocket are too late! Apple Pay is the way of the future!” To anyone who shares this sentiment I ask a simple question: Where do you shop?  I have yet to be able to buy gasoline with Apple Pay […]

Life’s always hectic for me. It’s my natural state, I suppose. This month is a bit more hectic than normal, if there is such a thing. In addition to all my regular activities, I’ve just finished tech week and 3 shows of Next to Normal, my first foray into playing in a theater pit in […]

I’ve been interested in Swatch’s new, mechanical, automatic and inexpensive Sistem51 since it was announced earlier this year.  This week the Sistem51 (finally!) went on sale… in Switzerland. The US release is still planned for “early 2014,” though they won’t confirm a more specific time frame than that (at least not with me… and not […]

Earlier this year Swatch made waves in the watch industry when they introduced the Sistem51, a watch with a mechanical movement whose assembly is fully-automated. This keeps costs down (think $150) while presumably preserving high quality (they say the watch is regulated by a laser at the factory and requires no further tuning). Initially rumored for […]

It’s interesting how misunderstood Sonos is by us geeks. I say “us” because I was firmly in this “Sonos doesn’t make sense to me” camp right up until the day I wasn’t. Kind of like how some computer geeks used to be (and some still are) about the Mac. “It’s too easy.” “It looks cheap […]

You can read it over at TMO (where there are some *great* comments) and/or watch it in my interview with TheDigitalLifestyle.tv. Or, you know, right here below.

I had what I consider to be quite a fantastic idea for solving a lot of the complaints about the iPhone OS’s lack of multitasking support for third-party apps. I wrote about it over at TMO, so you can see it there. Enjoy!

Just posted an article about my lightning experiences and lessons learned over at TMO that *should* have gone live a year ago, but got lost in the system. Thankfully a conversation sparked up this weekend on the Macworld Forums about Chris Breen’s related power experiences, and it sent me to seek out this old article […]

Skype for the iPhone came out last night, and I spent a little time with it, and wrote a lot about it. Don’t worry, I’ve been using Skype regularly for years, so most of what I wrote is actually real stuff I didn’t make up! 🙂 The article’s posted over at iPodObserver today, and even […]

Amazon released the Kindle app for the iPhone last night, and this morning I released my thoughts on it over at iPodObserver. There’s already an interesting stream happening in the comments over there. Enjoy!