They say timing is everything, but some photographs (such as these) become brilliant or hilarious considering both the timing and the angle work out just right. Sometimes that means catching folks or objects lined up perfectly at the ideal moment. Other times these are staged for maximum effect. Here are 20 examples of photos taken at the exact ri…

Here are a few questions I’ve received recently from society like you, and my answers. I have edited and restated the questions a bit, for readability.
My IT branch will not turn on the feature in our servers that would allow me to receive corporate e mail on my iPhone. that has forced me to revert back to my BlackBerry Pearl. Can I transfer…

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Companies have folded for many years to produce a successful electronic reader, a committed device that would do for books what Apple’s iPod has done for music — allow you to carry around large numbers of titles and enjoy them in a convenient way.
Just a year ago, Sony took another stab a…

During the 2006 election, more than 1.5 million of you participated in our special political features that let you indicate which candidates you supported and which political issues mattered most to you. For the 2008 election, we have partnered with ABC News to create the ‘US Politics’ application that has even more features to get involved in the …

With all due respect to Kevin Smith, the web is no longer only for complaining about movies. In fact, there are a large number of very helpful sites that teach you how to do things. These are do-it-yourself sites, but we’re not talking about building a deck or baking a cake — the web is full of more general interest sites that give quality inst…

OK, I’ve tried, I’ve really tried.
Spaces was one of the new features I was really looking forward too in Leopard. Even though I’ve got significant screen real estate (a 30″ Dell monster) I knew I could still benefit from having an orderly Spaces environment to group my related screens altogether.
Spaces is so close to being…

One of my musical heros has a blog!
That would be Thomas Dolby.
And in his blog, he tells of his search for a new boat to build a studio in. The thing is the boat will remain in his garden, firmly planted on dry land.
What a great notion!
Not certain whether I’ve got the room in my garden for such a structure for the ScreenCastsOnline studio…