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Stories About Ben Wood

  • Remove Unwanted Text Shadows in IWork Programs If you use the iWork applications, or other programs that use their own font styling features and the system-wide Fonts panel, here's a little potential "gotcha"...
  • Apple Approves, Then Pulls Nintendo Emulator for IPhone Last night, I e-mailed my editors at Macworld excitedly: "NES emulator for iPhone! Approved by Apple! Let me write this up!"
  • Gifts for the IPhone Lover Add another item to the list of ways the iPhone can improve your daily life--it makes gift-giving a heck of a lot easier. After all, if someone on your list...
  • Buying a Printer: Fact vs. Fiction Buying a printer would seem to be straightforward: Decide what you need the printer to do--text? photos? scanning, copying, and maybe faxing?--and you'll have a...
  • Microsoft Strikes Out in Word Patent Appeal An appeals court has decided against Microsoft and upheld an earlier judgment claiming that Microsoft has infringed on technologies patented by i4i.
  • A.D.D. for IPhone It took Apple six months to edit down A.D.D. (Addictive Dumb Distractions), the long awaited release from Iugo Mobile Entertainment, to something suitable for...
  • Sketches 2.0 Drawing App Adds Maps Integration We use our iPhone touchscreens for typing, scrolling, panning, and zooming—but have you ever wondered how cool it would be if you could use your iPhone as a...
  • Dell's Inspiron 11z Netbook: Superior Performance, Lousy Touchpad If it weren't for the absolutely awful touchpad, we'd have no problem recommending the speedy little Dell Inspiron 11z.
  • HP's TouchSmart 300: A Versatile All-in-One Media-Centric PC HP's TouchSmart 300 All-in-One touchscreen PC has some very attractive features, including the company's TouchSmart software that provides full-screen widgets to access music, video, Netflix, Twitter, and other services.
  • Privacy Guide for Kindle, Other E-Book Readers The Electronic Frontier Foundation put together a guide to the privacy policies and practices of Google Books, Amazon's Kindle, and other readers.
  • Yelp Rejects Google, Google Walks from Yelp: Bad News Either Way Google and Yelp don't seem to agree on why the deal between the two unraveled, but it's unfortunate regardless of how it happened.
  • Obama Selects Tech Veteran for Top Cybersecurity Post Howard Schmidt was named as the White House's cybersecurity coordinator on Tuesday, a job that was reportedly difficult to fill.
  • Bring Your Middle Mouse Button to Life That middle button is often ignored, but you can tap its potential for browsing more efficiently, scrolling quickly, and more.
  • Facebook's Top Status Updates of 2009 Facebook apps, "FML," and even Facebook itself earn spots on the list -- but the social network's privacy problems are not on there.
  • iPhone 3GS Tames Unreal Engine 3 Epic demonstrates high-end visual engine powering Gears of War 2 running on Apple's iPhone and iPod Touch 3GS.

From Around the Web

  • Remove Unwanted Text Shadows in IWork Programs If you use the iWork applications, or other programs that use their own font styling features and the system-wide Fonts panel, here's a little potential "gotcha"...
  • Apple Approves, Then Pulls Nintendo Emulator for IPhone Last night, I e-mailed my editors at Macworld excitedly: "NES emulator for iPhone! Approved by Apple! Let me write this up!"
  • Gifts for the IPhone Lover Add another item to the list of ways the iPhone can improve your daily life--it makes gift-giving a heck of a lot easier. After all, if someone on your list...
  • Buying a Printer: Fact vs. Fiction Buying a printer would seem to be straightforward: Decide what you need the printer to do--text? photos? scanning, copying, and maybe faxing?--and you'll have a...
  • Microsoft Strikes Out in Word Patent Appeal An appeals court has decided against Microsoft and upheld an earlier judgment claiming that Microsoft has infringed on technologies patented by i4i.
  • A.D.D. for IPhone It took Apple six months to edit down A.D.D. (Addictive Dumb Distractions), the long awaited release from Iugo Mobile Entertainment, to something suitable for...
  • Sketches 2.0 Drawing App Adds Maps Integration We use our iPhone touchscreens for typing, scrolling, panning, and zooming—but have you ever wondered how cool it would be if you could use your iPhone as a...
  • Dell's Inspiron 11z Netbook: Superior Performance, Lousy Touchpad If it weren't for the absolutely awful touchpad, we'd have no problem recommending the speedy little Dell Inspiron 11z.
  • HP's TouchSmart 300: A Versatile All-in-One Media-Centric PC HP's TouchSmart 300 All-in-One touchscreen PC has some very attractive features, including the company's TouchSmart software that provides full-screen widgets to access music, video, Netflix, Twitter, and other services.
  • Privacy Guide for Kindle, Other E-Book Readers The Electronic Frontier Foundation put together a guide to the privacy policies and practices of Google Books, Amazon's Kindle, and other readers.
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