Smartphone smarts for a mobile world
SMARTPHONE SMARTS By Jessica McCurdy Crooks There are so many people who own a smartphone but they are only using it as a basic cellphone. For one thing, many people are afraid to play around with...
View ArticleIntroducing the Jones family and their full-family backup challenges
KEEPING UP WITH THE JONESES' BACKUPS By David Gewirtz There's a new family in town. The Jones family has a lot more computers than most families of even a few years ago, and therefore also has a lot...
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The Novel: a $159 iPad knock-off that’s not half bad
PRODUCT REVIEW By Joseph Andrews In late August, ZATZ editor-in-chief David Gewirtz wrote How a mediocre iPad knock-off could foretell Steve Jobs' eventual doom on his ZDNet blog. In that article, he...
View ArticleCloud backup failures and a potential possibility
KEEPING UP WITH THE JONESES' BACKUPS By David Gewirtz A few weeks ago, we introduced you to our new series on family backups. We put together a composite of the Jones family, a tech-enabled family with...
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Lightroom 3: what’s new, and why is it important?
PRODUCT REVIEW By Scott Koegler Adobe's Lightroom has transformed the way many of us deal with our photographic images since its first incarnation as a beta four years ago. The latest update to version...
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Lightroom 3: cool, new editing features
PRODUCT REVIEW By Scott Koegler This week, we continue our look at the new Adobe Lightroom 3. This time, I'll look at some slick, new editing features. Developing and RAW processing Once images are...
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Lightroom 3: cool, new publishing and video features
PRODUCT REVIEW By Scott Koegler This week, we continue our look at the new Adobe Lightroom 3. This time, I'll look at some exciting new publishing and video features. Publishing services In previous...
View ArticleMobile computing and the teaching landscape: a relationship worth exploring
SCHOOL SMARTS By Jessica McCurdy Crooks Mobile computing is the new frontier in technology. When it comes to imparting knowledge, especially to today's always on-the-go population, few technologies...
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You’ll flip out over the Flip SlideHD
PRODUCT REVIEW By Scott Koegler I've used nearly every version of the Flip video cameras... you know, the tiny video cam that started a revolution in video sharing? The latest one that I'm using is the...
View ArticleWhy I want a Kinect
FROM THE EDITOR-IN-CHIEF By David Gewirtz I want a Kinect. I do. I'm almost ashamed of my desire, but for some reason I want one oh so bad. I haven't wanted something this bad since, well, after...
View ArticleThe Xbox 360 red ring of death: some possible fixes
WE GOT GAME By David Gewirtz I love my Xbox, but it doesn't love me. I actually own two of them, an HDMI-equipped Xbox Elite, and one of the original white Xbox models with a 20GB hard drive. Sadly,...
View ArticleHappy Thanksgiving from ZATZ
FROM THE EDITOR-IN-CHIEF By David Gewirtz Here's a Thanksgiving shout-out to all our readers. We're celebrating Thankgiving this week in America and the editors and staff of ZATZ wants to wish everyone...
View ArticleI’m on the History Channel on Wednesday night
FROM THE EDITOR-IN-CHIEF By David Gewirtz On Saturday, April 21, 2007, I published a small article in DominoPower called, Technical analysis: the White House email controversy. I'd been watching the...
View ArticleHello, 2006 called and wants its tech support question back
MOBILE Q&A By David Gewirtz So, we get reader questions. Every so often we respond by mocking the question, much to the apparent disgruntlement of one or two readers. Sadly, today, we find...
View ArticleShould you get a Kindle?
HOLIDAY RECOMMENDATIONS By Joe Dolittle We're constantly asked holiday gift recommendations, and one of the most common is whether or not a Kindle is a good holiday choice. As you know, the Kindle is...
View ArticleHappy holidays to all!
FROM THE EDITOR-IN-CHIEF By David Gewirtz With truly our sincerest apologies to Clement Clarke Moore, and/or Henry Livingston, Jr., we present more well-intentioned, bad poetry: Happy holidays! Twas...
View ArticleFacebook privacy issues: are they really that big a deal?
SOCIAL NETWORKING By Jessica McCurdy Crooks Statistics indicate that almost 500 million people worldwide use Facebook for one purpose or the other. What started out as a social outlet has now morphed...
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WikiReader: read all of Wikipedia and Project Gutenberg without an Internet...
PRODUCT REVIEW By Nancy Hand The WikiReader, shown in Figure A, is a small touchscreen device -- 5 inches on the diagonal -- that packs a lot of information and does not require an Internet connection....
View ArticleWhat to do when GNOME goes away
LINUX LOVE By David Gewirtz I've been setting up a local CentOS box on my home network. It'll eventually run some hack software I've been fiddling with, but for now, it's just a matter of making it all...
View ArticleA quick Linux network performance tip: iptables
LINUX LOVE By Joe Dolittle Here's a quick tip if you want to improve your system's performance and you're not doing any routing: turn off iptables. The iptables system uses a few cycles from your CPU...
View ArticleHow to install PHP 5.3 on CentOS
LINUX LOVE By David Gewirtz Let's talk about PHP for a moment. In particular, let's talk about PHP's release history. PHP 5.1 was released in 2005. PHP 5.2 was released almost exactly a year later, in...
View ArticleLooking for a good wiki? Try DokuWiki.
PRODUCT REVIEW By Joe Dolittle I love Wikipedia. There's no end to the fun I have searching for information on any topic that strikes my fancy. I spent countless hours that I should have been writing...
View ArticleInternet Explorer 9 is out — should you download it?
BREAKING NEWS By Joe Dolittle Microsoft's new browser is now available as a released product. It contains a number of new features and performance enhancements, including a faster JavaScript engine and...
View ArticleStatus report: migrating ZENPRESS to a new platform
FROM THE EDITOR-IN-CHIEF By David Gewirtz Ever since the company was started, ZATZ went beyond basic publishing and has done ground-breaking research into Internet publishing technologies. In 1997, we...
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Nik Software’s HDR Efex Pro reveals photographic details previously hidden to...
PRODUCT REVIEW By Scott Koegler HDR (High Dynamic Range) photos have become increasingly popular in the last couple years. The best examples combine multiple images of the same scene, taken with...
View ArticleCitizen journalism: is it sustainable?
GUEST EDITORIAL By Jorge Sosa Chuck D. knew the score. If you're a particularly obsessive music geek, you might recall how the Public Enemy frontman once defended peer-to-peer music file-sharing as...
View ArticleOpen question: what would you like to see us cover?
FROM THE EDITOR-IN-CHIEF By David Gewirtz ZATZ editorial coverage has always been a reflection of the interests and needs of our readers. From the very earliest days covering Palm devices, to our long...
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Is Windows Phone 7 for power users?
PRODUCT REVIEW By James Booth Previous versions of Windows Mobile truly were tailored for power users, with file explorers, screen capture utilities, and the ability to customize nearly every aspect of...
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HTC’s HD7, the HD2 update
PRODUCT REVIEW By James Booth Last year's release of HTC's HD2 was the final evolution of the Windows Mobile device. It made the most of the mobile OS and really took it as far as it could go. For...
View ArticleWecome to the ZATZ Studio
FROM THE EDITOR-IN-CHIEF By David Gewirtz Back in May, I told you about our home buying adventures. In that piece, I also explained that we're building a studio for ZATZ. Well, a lot of progress has...
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