Retina Displays: Not Seeing Pixels for Almost Half a Year
It all started in October. I ordered my new MacBook — a Retina Display MacBook Pro 15-inch with all the base specs — as a half-gift. When I say that, I mean I saved a majority of the money, and my mom...
View Article3D Printer Price: $50? 3Doodler Aims to Make It So
Who doesn’t like to doodle? Imagine if you could scribble a bunch of lines into thin air and have it result in something tangible — something you could pick up and hold? Sounds like an expensive dream,...
View ArticleWill Buying Video Games at a Store Be Obsolete?
Cecily Kellogg of Uppercase Woman writes: Nearly twenty years ago I was the proud owner of an old-school cartridge gaming system (which was state-of-the-art at the time and seems hopelessly clunky...
View ArticleWhy I’ve Switched from Google Chrome
[Editor's note: Please keep in mind that this is a guest post. While it takes a pretty definite position against Google Chrome, not everyone here at LockerGnome feels this way about the browser. In...
View ArticleCustomer Service in the Twitter Age
How does customer service in the age of social media — especially Twitter — differ from customer service at any other time in consumer history? Here’s a little story. My wife and I decided to buy a...
View ArticleData and Information Ethics
How do your ethics cope with today’s availability and exchange of data? Guest blogger Andrew Rosenfeld writes: I remember the first time I spoke the words, “I believe information should be free.” A...
View ArticleMac Learning Curve: Hurdles Moving from PC to Mac
So you’re considering moving from a PC to a Mac. Maybe you’d like to use both operating systems, or maybe you’re considering a permanent switch. The problem is, you’ve never used a Mac before, let...
View ArticleMedia Storage: Copy Vs. Google Drive
After watching a recent LockerGnome video, I decided to check out a cloud storage and file sharing service that Chris mentioned called Copy. Among more well-known competitors like Dropbox, Google...
View ArticlePlantronics GameCom 307 Gaming Headset Review
Guest blogger James Swanson writes: A few weeks ago, I purchased the Plantronics GameCom 307 Gaming Headset for around $25. While on the low end of the gaming headset spectrum, it’s small and portable...
View ArticleGoogle Chromebook: My New Tech Love Affair
Max Nab (a cool name straight out of the Mos Eisley Cantina if ever I heard one) writes: Hi, Chris. I had a fairly powerful Dell Inspiron for for six years. It played all the games I wanted, ran MS...
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Seven TV Shows for Geeks and Nerds
Television series aren’t only limited to the usual genres of drama, comedy, and action. From time to time, TV networks churn out shows that also cater to a very specific niche market usually composed...
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Can Windows 8 Save Microsoft?
Shon Sullivan writes: Hi, Chris. I have been following your vlog recently after being reintroduced to you during your visit at Ignite-U. I had originally followed you back in the days when you were...
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Hello, World! How to Get Started Writing Apps
One of the questions I am asked all the time is how I learned to write software. That question is always followed by “will you teach me?” Creating applications is a complicated process, but that...
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How to Disable Spam Invites from Google+ Appearing on Google Calendar
Not long ago, Chris Pirillo mentioned that he no longer uses Google Calendar because of all the spam invites that he gets via Google+. Whether or not Chris has figured out this workaround by now (quite...
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How to Develop for Android, iOS, and Other Mobile Devices
Today, the average smartphone user is spoiled for choice. There are over 700,000 apps from which to choose at the Apple App Store, and around the same at the Google Play Store for Android — with...
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