This weekend I signed my family up for the local ‘Race for the Cure’, I’ll be running the 5k and my wife and boys will be walking it. I covered the firestorm related to the Komen Foundation suddenly pulling funding for Planned Parenthood efforts in Cancer screening and health care for needy women a few [...]
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Developers, Please Finish Your Apps Prior to Release!
Last week, Nokia ran an ad campaign that welcomed people to the end of smartphone Beta-testing thanks to the release of the Nokia Lumia 900. I criticized them for the initial ad, which tried to focus solely on the iPhone and some of its limitations and bumps encountered along the way, pointing out that there [...]
Nokia Lumia 900 Has Botched Retail Launch, Yet Still Hits #1 on Amazon!
This past Sunday, my brother was visiting; he and my wife and I went for a long bike ride, taking a path around the local mall along the way … and noting that everything was closed. Because it was Easter. It just also happened to be the launch day of the Nokia Lumia 900, the [...]
How the Helicopter Parents Stole Easter
Even though it has been 7 years, I remember it as if it was yesterday. My wife and I were Cub Scout den leaders for each of our kids, and we thought that a cool spring event would be an Easter Egg hunt. We had cleared it with all parents, and all of the kids [...]
Teething Troubles for Tablet Adoption in the Workplace
It’s always tempting to impute Unlikely virtues to the cute. – Ogden Nash The tech world is abuzz with them, many of us own our own and several of us use them at work. They have transformed the personal computing landscape and become a standard in their own right, sized from the neighborhood of 10″ [...]
Does iOS Need a User Interface Overhaul?
I posed a question to my fellow staff at Gear Diary, asking all iPhone users why Apple hasn’t really changed their UI since 2007. As a non iPhone user, my questions stemmed from a post that Carly had put up about her finding her original iPhone, when she posted a side by side of the home [...]
Adventures in Stupid Advertising Plays, Nokia Lumia 900 Edition
Nokia has just rolled out a new campaign for its Lumia 900. I am personally a bit disappointed in the company. Here’s why – The Lumia 900 is a fantastic phone. It looks and feels great in the hand, the screen is beautiful, it is sleek and attractive, and it’s running an operating system that [...]
Google, This Is Why You FAIL
This morning I got excited, at first. I saw on my phone and my tablet that Temple Run has had an update. The game has been less than stable on all of my devices so I was anxious to get the update to see if it was fixed. So I go to the Google Play [...]
Is Pottermore Going to Change the eBook Market?
As Michael told you the other day, the new Harry Potter official site Pottermore has been launched with much fanfare. Your source for all things related to the Potter universe, including (finally!) electronic versions of all the books. (And your faithful Gear Diary team has discussed that a bit in other posts as well.) Now, [...]
Open Letter to Google: Fix Android Now
Dear Google, I love Android. Ever since Judie gave me my G1 I was in love. You had an OS that was pretty good then, even better now and getting better all the time. So I don’t have too many problems with your OS. However, the problems that remain are ones that are bad enough to [...]
Hey Amazon, Can You PLEASE Let Me Change the Paragraph Justification in Your Apps?
Image courtesy of (believe it or not!) furnitureconsignment.com So as you’ve probably heard–Michael posted about it, for example–J.K. Rowling’s latest cash cow, the Pottermore web site, finally went live today (a mere 6-9 months after it was originally promised, but that’s a whole different ranty post). For me what this meant was that, finally, I [...]
Apparently Some Critics Want to Call Her ‘Fat’niss
My household has been abuzz after all of us finally saw The Hunger Games this weekend – my wife and I and older son went together on Friday, and younger son went to a birthday party featuring heading to the movie on Saturday. There were a load of highlights – and of course a number [...]
App Avalanche! How Do You Deal with Constant App Updates?
For anyone in the tech biz, one of the scariest words is, “Upgrade”. You’re bumping along just fine, things are going well, and you get that dreaded email from your IT department informing you that some critical change has been made (usually to security and networking software), and you are required to upgrade your system. [...]
We Don’t Do Rumors, and Here’s Why!!
In the last couple of months there have been several reports regarding operating conditions at the Foxconn factory in China, most famous as the producer of the majority of Apple mobile devices. The current frenzy started in January with a report from Mike Daisey on PRI’s ‘This American Life’, and what started as one has [...]
Why the Vere Sandal Company Kickstarter Project Needs a Kick in the Pants
UPDATED WITH A DIRECT RESPONSE FROM THE COMPANY Kickstarter is a great way to help new businesses get moving, and in the process get your hands on new products early. Judie and I have both backed numerous Kickstarter projects over the past few years, and we’ve been quite pleased with the process; until now, that is. [...]
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