Technologizer by Harry McCracken – A Smarter Take on Tech
Nov 17, 2024 — Okay, maybe “lost” is overstating things. Still, I tend to forget about most of the stuff I write the moment I’m done with it. So I certainly don’t have vivid recollections of writing my weekly Technologizer column for TIME.com, which I …
About Technologizer and Harry
Photo by Marie Domingo I'm Harry McCracken, founder and editor of Technologizer. My life's work is helping people get more out of the technology in their lives, a job I'm very lucky to have. I started this site in 2008. From February 2012-May 2014, I …
Harry McCracken | Technologizer by Harry McCracken
Jan 21, 2024 — Introduction by Harry: David Bunnell (1947-2016) didn’t create the idea of computer magazines.But he may have done more than anyone to turn them into a big business. In the 1970s, when David was working at pioneering PC company MITS, he published Computer Notes—as far as I know, the first periodical about the then-new devices known as …
Osborne! - Technologizer by Harry McCracken
Apr 1, 2011 — Frustrated chemical engineer Adam Osborne left Shell in 1971 and quickly reinvented himself as successful technical writer Adam Osborne. He founded Osborne & Associates, a company which started out doing documentation and began publishing books about microcomputers in an era when hardly anyone had even heard of microcomputers; his best …
Behold the lost TIME.com Technologizer columns
Feb 29, 2024 — Okay, maybe "lost" is overstating things. Still, I tend to forget about most of the stuff I write the moment I'm done with it. So I certainly don't have vivid recollections of writing my weekly Technologizer column for TIME.com, which I did from September 2010 until February 2012. But when I was
My mid-aughts PC World Techlog tech blog, available again at last
3 days ago — Apologies for the continued self-indulgent excavation of my own work, but after indexing my TIME.com columns and preserving my tweets, I’m back with links to the 952 posts I wrote for my PC World blog Techlog between 2004 and 2008. Until now, I’ve considered them to be more or less lost. At some point after I left PC World, the publication decided to pull the …
The Inside Story of PC Magazine, PC World, and Macworld's …
Jan 20, 2024 — Introduction by Harry: David Bunnell (1947-2016) didn’t create the idea of computer magazines.But he may have done more than anyone to turn them into a big business. In the 1970s, when David was working at pioneering PC company MITS, he published Computer Notes—as far as I know, the first periodical about the then-new devices known as …
The End of Computer Magazines in America
Apr 15, 2023 — The April issues of Maximum PC and MacLife are currently on sale at a newsstand near you—assuming there is a newsstand near you. They’re the last print issues of these two venerable computer magazines, both of which date to 1996 (and were originally known, respectively, as Boot and MacAddict).Starting with their next editions, both publications will be …
The 25 Most Notable Quotes in Tech History - Technologizer by …
Nov 9, 2009 — It's not love, war, or baseball. But over the years some memorable things have been said about technology. Some have been memorably eloquent; others are unforgettably shortsighted, wrongheaded, or just plain weird. Let's celebrate them, shall we? A few ground rules for the list that follows: I considered only statements attributable to a specific individual,…
A Brief History of the Rise and Fall of Telephone Competition in …
Mar 20, 2011 — So much for quiet Sundays. AT&T announced today that it's agreed to acquire T-Mobile US from Deutsche Telekom, a merger which, if completed, will make it by far the country's biggest wireless phone company. It'll also leave us with three national carriers: AT&T, archrival Verizon Wireless, and the much smaller Sprint. I'm not an expert…