SUPER CHARGE YOUR IPHONE

We can barely remember to charge our cell phones, so this new product from Dexim is the kind of thing we need. It’s a leather case for an iPhone that… Read more

STEEL BUSINESS CARDS

Steve Wozniak (“the Woz”), co-founder of Apple Computer, uses steel business cards. Gizmodo says he gets them from a British company, Plasma Design,… Read more

NUMBERS REPORT: EBOOK SALES

At Amazon.com, Kindle books are outselling hardcover and paperback books combined by more than two to one. The Association of American… Read more

BEST IPHONE APPS

It’s hard to find good iPhone and iPad apps without a lot of web surfing, so we were delighted with this little book: “Best iPhone Apps,” by… Read more

PUT YOURSELF ON THE MAP

Yelp.com is hugely popular for opinions, whether good or bad, about U.S. businesses. But they’ve gotten some bad press recently because a couple… Read more

BUYING A NEW LAPTOP

A friend asked for advice about buying a Windows laptop. This is a question we hardly ever deal with in this column. The reason is simply that… Read more

HEADS IN THE CLOUDS

Microsoft has been around for 35 years and dominated the desktop for most of that time. Google’s goal isn’t to dominate the desktop, because they… Read more

SOFT HANDS FOR ROBOTS

Last night we saw a remarkable thing at a University of Chicago lecture. An unusual robot hand could pick up things as delicate as raw eggs or as… Read more

TOGETHERVILLE

Togetherville is a nice-looking social networking site for kids 10 and younger. It has games, creative projects, video and preset comments you can… Read more

PRINT OUT YOUR FACEBOOK WALL

PrintingFacebook.com is a new website that can literally put your Facebook friends on the wall. We’re talking a real wall, of course, like the one… Read more