Do you really want to have an intern running your company’s Twitter account? That’s the question I address in a new post up on BNET. In addition to weighing the pros and cons of Twit-erns, I give tips on how to best utilize your Twitter account — regardless of who is at its helm. Here’s [...]

Spend enough time on corporate or ISP provided email, and eventually you’re going to run into a situation where the file you need to send is too big — you click ‘send’ and get an error message, and the person you’re sending it to gets nothing. These caps on email attachment size often aren’t explicitly [...]

I’m still proudly holding on to my original iPhone, but fortunately I’ve had the opportunity to have some extended hands-on time with the new iPhone 3GS. My usage of has formed some definite thoughts and opinions. The new model boasts a lot of new features and incremental improvements, and I’ll go in depth into them [...]

As it currently stands, electronic textbooks will never take off. Last month I wrote an article about this, discussing the pros and cons of using e-book readers such as the Amazon Kindle DX for college textbooks. There are many advantages to e-textbooks – read the article for a list – but there is one big, [...]

Sometimes, an idea will seem great on first glance, but the more you think about it the less sense it seems to make. I call it the “wait a minute…” factor, and it can’t be avoided when talking about bringing college textbooks to the Kindle. Recently, Amazon announced a new, larger version of their Kindle [...]

I have finally gotten around to fleshing out the My Gear section of the website, and to start with I’ve written about the laptops that I own and use on a daily basis.  I talk about the laptops themselves and their specs, how I use them and what I use them for, and my thoughts [...]

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 [...]

Here’s a challenge:  could I compare the four major browsers without spilling more than 125 words on each? And somehow reference Lolcats? I recently did just that for Concrete, the student newspaper at the University of East Anglia. Here’s the article, in it’s entirety: Web Browser Faceoff! by Tyler Kearn Microsoft Internet Explorer: Compared to [...]