This  week I wrote about simplicity in consumer technology, particularly in regards to Apple and the new iPod Shuffle, for my Tyler the Tech Guy column in The Occidental Weekly. Here’s the article lead: Can something really be made too simple? Well, it depends on what that thing is. In the case of a midterm [...]

This week I have a new Tyler the Tech Guy article in The Occidental Weekly, the newspaper at Occidental College. It’s about the new version of Skype, Skype 4.0, and about the phenomenon of video calling.  Here’s the lead of the story: Skype may be the greatest thing ever. Every time I use it to [...]

Wouldn’t you know it? Just as I publish my article comparing Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, and Chrome, Apple goes and annouces the public beta of  Safari 4. They claim the new Safari is the fastest browser of them all, destroying IE, beating Firefox, and inching ahead of Chrome both in HTML rendering and Javascript. While [...]