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by Peter Smith

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Peter Smith writes about personal technology for ITworld.

Another geek holiday: Happy Pi Day!

Posted Mar 14, 2009 - 10:57 am

It only comes once a year, so don't miss the festivities!
Offbeat, Math Holidays, Pi Day
How to thrive as a conference-going introvert

Posted Mar 13, 2009 - 11:52 am

For some of us, heading to a big conference causes mixed feelings of gleeful anticipation and dread. Here're some tips to reduce the latter.
Personal Tech, Conferences
Apple cries wolf

Posted Mar 12, 2009 - 03:05 am

Did they really need to take the Apple store offline just to add one new product?
Business, Apple Store, iPod Shuffle
Legacy Locker: Your last Web 2.0 experience.

Posted Mar 11, 2009 - 08:01 am

A new service offers to send your online usernames and passwords to loved ones after you die.
Security, Legacy Locker, security
Apple netbook rumors resurface

Posted Mar 10, 2009 - 08:02 am

What's Apple going to do with all those Wintek touch panels?
Hardware, Apple, netbook
Dancing with the Woz

Posted Mar 09, 2009 - 08:01 am

ABC's new season of Dancing With the Stars offers Apple co-founder an opportunity to show off a new side of himself.
Offbeat, Steve Wozniak, TV
Salacious content driving the adoption of ebooks?

Posted Mar 06, 2009 - 02:33 pm

The e-book buzz continues this week as Barnes & Noble buys Fictionwise. It would seem e-books have finally "arrived," but who or what is driving the adoption of the format? Some things never change...
Personal Tech, Barnes & Noble, e-books
Putting TwitteReader to the test

Posted Mar 06, 2009 - 12:02 am

A new web application lets you read Twitter using an interface similar to Google Reader. But is it better than going to twitter.com?
Software, Twitter, TwitteReader
Spotify leaks personal data

Posted Mar 05, 2009 - 09:12 am

Users who signed up before December 19th, 2008 urged to change their passwords.
Security, security breach, Spotify
Kindle books come to the iPhone

Posted Mar 04, 2009 - 09:14 am

Amazon expands its potential customer base by creating a Kindle app for the iPhone & iPod Touch. Is this the start of a new trend or a one-time thing? And what's in it for Apple?
Personal Tech, e-readers, iPhone

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