Stories by Harry McCracken

AdventNet Zoho Notebook

A powerful tool for creating, collecting, and sharing information; the beta version is rough around the edges.

Apple's likely strategy: What would Steve do?

First, a disclaimer, just in case you weren't sure: I'm not Steve Jobs's doctor. And I believe that all of us who aren't responsible for his medical well-being are in no position to have an informed opinion about it--and that to deal in rumor on the ...

Splashup

If an award existed for "Web Image Editor Most Likely to Be Mistaken for Photoshop," Splashup (formerly known as Fauxto) would win in a cakewalk.

FlauntR

FlauntR online photo editor is a veritable eye-candy store crammed with effects, fonts, clip art, borders, and other tools.

Picture2Life

Buried in the Picture2Life beta we tried are occasional, tantalising hints of a pleasing online photo-editing app.

Fotoflexer

Fotoflexer, which bills itself as "The world's most advanced online image editor," does indeed pack an amazing array of capabilities -- including a few that no other Web-based Photoshop alternative dares to attempt.

Unanswered questions about Apple's 3G iPhone

If you expected startling news to come out of Monday's keynote for Apple's World-Wide Developers Conference (WWDC) -- headlined, of course, by Steve Jobs -- you went away unstartled and disappointed.

Getting iPhone Apps Onto Your iPhone

Jobs is explaining that it's been hard, historically, for developers to distribute their phone apps. Apple is fixing that with the Apps Store, which will be on all iPhones with the new software release.

Ten Questions I Still Have About iPhone Software

Apple answered a lot of questions about iPhone apps today. But its announcement also left me wondering about a bunch of things.

MacBook Air: How incomplete is it?

Steve Jobs is, among many other things, the great denier. Second mouse buttons, floppy drives, 56-kbps modems--for decades, he's been perfectly willing to release producrs that lack one or more features that are standard equipment on everyone else's ...

Corel Painter X

Better brushes and photo tools make for a winning upgrade.

Google Docs, with Presentations

You could make a case that there's no such thing as a full-blown office suite that can't do presentations. And if that's true, Google Docs just became a full-blown office suite.

21 Quibbles I Have With Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard

Apple's operating system upgrade is full of good stuff, but there's room for improvement. Lots and lots of it. Herewith, my list of gripes, requests, and puzzlements.

Google Docs: Now with presentations

You could make a case that there's no such thing as a full-blown office suite that can't do presentations. And if that's true, Google Docs just became a full-blown office suite: As of Tuesday, it features the presentation features that CEO Eric Schmi...

Fifteen random thoughts about the new iPods

Whenever I attend an Apple product launch, I know the drill: By the end of the day, I'll have a head full of random thoughts and questions regarding the stuff that was unveiled. As usual, I'll document 'em here for posterity.