Mea Vita: Carpe Diem

I recently upgraded my airplane's panel with an Aspen EFD1000 along with some other engine and transponder avionics. Now, instead of ...

Without a doubt, I believe that the mic on the earphones that ship with iOS devices is currently Apple's worst designed product. When ...

Thirty years ago, today, Harry Chapin died on the Long Island Expressway. He's probably best know for Cat's in the Cradle - which i...

Today, I went running with my virtual running buddy. I've been using my Garmin Forerunner GPS / heart monitor since 2005, but I've n...

This weekend I flew from Carlsbad to La Verne, in L.A., to visit a high school classmate. It was a perfect opportunity to snap some great ph...

Most every guy in the world learned how to shave from his father. When I joined the Marines at 18 years old, what I learned from dad didn...

It's interesting, yet not unexpected, to see how a next generation computer language becomes everything the previous generation wanted t...

Last year, an iOS developer created the "WiFi Sync" app which allowed the iPhone and iPod touch to sync wirelessly with iTunes ove...

When I worked at the Apple Online Store , we would never load test the live website. There was rarely a need. However, it was always an inte...

One of the problems with feed updates, such as an RSS or a podcast feed, is that they're not real time. Each client, that subscribes to ...