Dec 19, 2013, 2:57 PMFavorite tech things: 3 products this reviewer actually chose to buyMakers of tech products are often told to “eat their own dog food” – actually use what they tout in… Read More
Dec 11, 2013, 4:23 PMGeekWire’s Gift Guide: 12 geeky gift ideas from Seattle-area designers and startupsLooking for great gifts for the geeks on your list? Why not make it local? Continuing an annual tradition, we’re pleased… Read More
Dec 4, 2013, 3:15 PMWhere do you work? Why multiple ‘offices’ are the next productivity hackI’m finding it harder and harder to answer a simple question. Where do you work? There are two traditional choices:… Read More
Nov 14, 2013, 6:30 PMIt’s time to kill the password — before it kills usIt’s time to shoot the password. And multiple screens are the trigger. I had this epiphany when wrestling with one… Read More
Nov 13, 2013, 4:53 PMFarewell, stack rank: Why this change is so big for Microsoft[Editor’s Note: Christopher Budd worked at Microsoft for more than 10 years, specializing in security response and communications.] Yesterday every… Read More
Nov 13, 2013, 1:30 PM‘Destroy all Macintosh products,’ and other ways to map the Seattle areaThere’s what a neighborhood is called, and then there’s what comes to mind when you think of it. A San… Read More
Nov 6, 2013, 6:51 PMTwitter’s bittersweet IPO: Our little social media’s all grown upTwitter will become a public company Thursday when millions of shares in the social media company go up for sale… Read More
Nov 2, 2013, 3:12 PMWhen technology – and time – overtake researchFor the past three decades, I have been a psychological test subject. Not in a creepy NSA-and-tin-foil-hat kind of way,… Read More
Oct 30, 2013, 3:25 PMWhy Washington state’s Obamacare site doesn’t suckMy husband and I were browsing wahealthplanfinder.org this week, to see if any of these new options were better than… Read More
Oct 25, 2013, 1:56 PMGot mentors? 8 ways to build career-boosting relationshipsIn our public professional lives, we like to play a little game. We pretend we know exactly what we’re doing.… Read More
Oct 19, 2013, 11:30 AMThe geek/nerd divide: This time, it’s personalA geek is not a nerd. And vice versa. Unless, of course, they are. When I was a kid, I… Read More
Oct 18, 2013, 1:21 PMCommentary: Do we have an emoticon problem? :-/So. Where do you come down on emoticons? They’re everywhere, these tiny typed expressions, and locally, reviews are mixed: “I… Read More
Oct 9, 2013, 5:51 PMLego love: The greatest engagement photos everThis week my friends Marika Burkhart and Justin Jensen posted some of the best engagement pictures I’ve ever seen. And… Read More
Oct 4, 2013, 3:46 PMSex, drugs and Facebook: Seattle Children’s social media research team takes on teen healthDr. Megan Moreno once met a teen who went to bed every night with her smartphone tucked under her pillow… Read More
Sep 26, 2013, 12:00 PMCD, noun: A flat, round thing that turns colors in the lightI was going to save the old CDs from the destructive clutches of my toddler. Then I thought, why? They’d… Read More
Sep 21, 2013, 11:35 AMThe Web: a generation old, a link unexpectedOn this twentieth anniversary of the first popular web browser, consider how its potential was viewed just one year after… Read More
Sep 18, 2013, 12:38 PMMobile pic critique: Here’s what photographer Chase Jarvis thinks about your best smartphone shotsWhen we asked you to submit mobile photos for a live critique by renowned photographer Chase Jarvis, hundreds of you… Read More
Aug 29, 2013, 12:40 PMAwkward blend: Job interviews and coffee shopsEverything looked just as I expected inside the Uptown Espresso in Belltown. Then I noticed the dress. Deep red, form… Read More
Aug 27, 2013, 4:12 PMWhen companies know too much: UW researcher explains digital market manipulationEarlier this month a certain daily deals site sent an email to Gmail users on its list. Gmail had rolled… Read More
Aug 15, 2013, 4:00 PMBad move: The cold, blunt justice of negative reviewsOne day last week, my Mom had had it. “I’m going to tear them apart,” she told me over the… Read More
Jul 31, 2013, 12:29 PM10 great ways to take awful mobile pictures of peopleAnyone can take a mobile photo of you. That doesn’t mean everyone should. Every week on social streams I see… Read More
Jul 25, 2013, 5:56 PMWriting science fiction in a Write-a-thon of geeky solidarityGeeks and science fiction. You can almost track the rise in influence of the former by the inexorable pop-culture spread… Read More
Jul 18, 2013, 12:30 PMWhat is innovation, anyway? Four ways to make an impactLike any word bound to human ambition, “innovation” is a claim as much as it’s a description. And it’s no… Read More
Jul 1, 2013, 11:35 AMSaving a ThinkPad from drink: How to recover from a tech travel disasterThere are those moments in life that occur, seemingly, in slow motion. That first teenage kiss. A bobbled piece of… Read More
Jun 26, 2013, 12:20 PMThe weight of words: Why I hope bookstores stick aroundI was taking video of my baby’s small, assisted zig-zag steps between the shelves at Ravenna’s Third Place Books when… Read More
Jun 20, 2013, 4:43 PMA night without powerWe were making our dinner last Tuesday when the kitchen light went out. A second later, I realized the new… Read More
Jun 15, 2013, 3:04 PM5 steps to prepare your geek child for collegeAs caps and gowns are returned for deposits while freshmen are readying to be deposited this fall in the college… Read More
Jun 12, 2013, 10:52 AMSecrecy and trust: Why the NSA leaks feel like ‘The X-Files’As I try to sort out how I feel about the secret programs that have allowed the National Security Agency… Read More
Jun 9, 2013, 10:22 AMMy VloggerFair vlog: How everyday online stars are changing the face of fandomVloggerFair, the come-one, come-all festival of vlogs and vlogging, kicked off its inaugural run at the enormous Terminal 5 building… Read More
May 30, 2013, 3:36 PMDo you live this moment, or capture it? Facing an everyday digital dilemmaWe took our 10-month-old son to Disneyland on Monday. When my husband watched video I’d taken of the day, I… Read More
