By Senior Editor – Kris Smith (@croncast)

Yep, you read that title correctly, ‘Serial’. Oh, boy.

Like you my first thought was, “Really? My grandpop’s got an old printer he needs to connect to?”

My second thought being that is a great idea given the amount the products…

By Senior Editor – Kris Smith (@croncast)

The time has come for me to give up my Virgin Mobile burner after 3 months of trusty use. It just isn’t cutting it any longer.

I’m tire of having to re-up minutes and pilfering my…

By Senior Editor – Kris Smith (@croncast)

As most of you know based on logging in to Facebook since last evening or have read in nearly every media outlet – Facebook got a facelift.

A slight nip tuck and a little work done…

By Senior Editor – Kris Smith (@croncast)

Lifehacker has a great little piece that will interest the Windows users out there.

It’s about a program called Lammer that adds some new right-click menu features for folders and files. Welcome additions that allow users to search the…

By Senior Editor – Kris Smith (@croncast)

Update: There is a word. Thank you @sumyunguy on Twitter. It is archivist . . . still not sciencey enough though!

The English language has completely let me down this evening!

How can there…

By Senior Editor – Kris Smith (@croncast)

Thanks to Springwise.com this brilliant product from a Texas entrepreneur came across my reads today – One Light Charcoal.

It is a bag filled with charcoal, how cool can it be?

Turns out that it can be really…

By Senior Editor – Kris Smith (@croncast)

Search Engine Optimization is taking on all kinds of new definitions today as it is stretched and pulled in new directions by social media, mobile apps and geo-location.

It used to simply mean preparing content and…

By Senior Editor – Kris Smith (@croncast)

The host of Web Soup on G4TV and all around funny guy, Chris Hardwick, got his hands all over an iPad today at the…

By Senior Editor – Kris Smith (@croncast)

Insulated from reality and what must have been focus group after focus group that said, “iPad? You must be crazazy,” Jobs kicked off 2010 with the worst named product since Prince partied like it was 1999 in his little…

By Senior Editor – Kris Smith (@croncast)

There is this little thing called Twitter. You’ve heard of it right?

How about this Facebook thing? Good.

Well, here’s the deal . . . I’m sure you check your site stats and client site stats to see how people…

By Senior Editor – Kris Smith (@croncast)

Having just experienced a seriously nerd hyped event in the last week that let me down, I’m sure hoping that Apple can live up to the hype.

If they can pull off a Twitter type…

By Staff Writer – John Federico (@gadgetboy)

It must be about a year ago that I discovered Prezi. It’s an online presentation application with a twist – literally. See, unlike the slide deck format that we’re all accustomed to, Prezi uses a single- Read the full story »

Tags: Business , editing , freemium , Online and offline , Page layout , presentations , Prezi , Usability , YouTube

By Senior Editor – Kris Smith (@croncast)

At the expense of Apple, all the hype and the zealous fanboys quite a few people have had enough.

They’ve also taken to the tubes and created some slide shows and videos that bring it all back to earth.

My…

By Senior Editor – Kris Smith (@croncast)

It sounds like a pitch from the pre-ubiquitous days of broadband but it is still true in many ways.

So this quick tip comes to you as a way to add a little more speed to…

By Senior Editor – Kris Smith (@croncast)

Would you be crushed if this Wednesday Apple’s big announcement is for a 10″ netbook?

After all of this hype I would say that it would be a major let…

By Staff Writer – John Federico (@gadgetboy)

At the end of last week our gadget guy, John Federico,  picked up a Wacom Bamboo Pen and Touch tablet. He wrote a short piece describing the device and is preparing a follow up piece on it this week.

I couldn’t…

By Senior Editor – Kris Smith (@croncast)

Computer virtualization company, NComputing, is offering a what it is calling the $70 computer as vSpace.

It is sort of a computer . . . as it is a virtualized machine. One regular priced computer running NComputin’s software…

By Senior Editor – Kris Smith (@croncast)

There is nothing more frustrating than following a link to a site with a post that you want to read, finding it interesting and then having do decipher where the story occurred.

Worse yet is when you read the article and scour…

By Senior Editor – Kris Smith (@croncast)

Above the skies of Berkley, California the rssCloud began amassing and is now blowing Eastward.

Today, Dave Winer gave access to those interested in testing what he calls, “the last major piece,” piece…

By Senior Editor – Kris Smith (@croncast)

My life is filled with thoughts of user experience goodness and ways to hack things together to make them better. Better for whom? Well, everyone silly!

When it comes to the web and hackery, often to share some awesome tool or user…