I’ve never found Siri to be worth much other than for idle amusement. I always thought I was an outlier. Maybe not. I‘ve been seeing more and more pieces like this one. … [Read more...]

I've been using Windows 8 on a test machine for about three months, upgrading to the preview version when it came out about a month ago. When the preview version of Office 2013 was announced, I loaded that too. I've now reached some preliminary conclusions. Both the new … [Read more...]

I switched from Firefox to Chrome soon after Google introduced their browser. Chrome was clean, and Chrome was fast. Chrome is fast no longer. Partly, that's because fast is relative, and Firefox has gotten better. But a big change is that Chrome has gotten slower as it has … [Read more...]

Yesterday my scanning program hung converting a scanned document to a PDF. Suspicious, I tried to launch Acrobat X without success. I poked around on the web and found out that there’s a widespread problem with CS6: a month after activation, Acrobat sometimes stops working. I … [Read more...]

I usually report here on technology gone wrong. Today, I’d like to change that and write a little love letter to my Epson 9800. It occurred to me that I hadn’t used the printer for a long time – I’m using my 4900 for most everything these days – so I decided to print something … [Read more...]