dan tynan on Nov 29 2008 | Filed under: Computerworld, Culture Crash, Da Web, Shopping, not dropping, amazon
Whether it’s Black Friday, Cyber Monday, or Stupid Bloody Tuesday, you can find great deals on gadgets and gear this season — if you know where to look.
The economy may be going to hell in a shopping basket, but you wouldn’t know it from the crowds I saw at my local Big Box store [...]
dan tynan on Oct 07 2008 | Filed under: Apple, Sony is baloney, US Airways Magazine, Video, Web 2.0
The future of entertainment can be found inside a game console
Hi, my name is Dan and I have a problem with electronics. (“Hi, Dan.”)
As a professional gadget wrangler, my home often looks like an electronics warehouse. These days my living room is filled with devices designed to deliver content from the Internet to my [...]
dan tynan on Sep 07 2008 | Filed under: Sony is baloney
One of the perks of doing what I do for a living is that companies send me stuff to play with. Recently I wrote a couple of stories about game consoles and movie download services, so I got Sony’s PR firm to send me a PlayStation 3. (But not a new PS3 - the one [...]
dan tynan on Aug 14 2008 | Filed under: Da Web, Facebook, Microsoft, PC World, Web 2.0, youtube
You can’t force anything to ‘go viral’ on the Internet, but that didn’t stop these 10 companies from giving it a big, dumb try. Guess who topped the list.
(This post originally appeared on PCworld.com)
Sure, it looks easy enough. Post a video of yourself wiggling your butt on Wii Fit, dancing your way across the globe, [...]
dan tynan on Jun 15 2008 | Filed under: Gadgets, Reviews
I finally got my hands on a Kindle. Here’s what I like about it — and what needs to be fixed.
The Kindle is amazing and awful, grand and terrible. It’s a groundbreaking device that’s in need of an overhaul. I like it and it annoys me all at the same time. Have I made that [...]
dan tynan on Apr 18 2008 | Filed under: Gadgets, PC World
Front-projector TVs can be the least expensive way to get the big picture in high definition–but read this before investing your hard-earned cash in one.
(This originally appeared in the May 08 issue of PC World magazine.)
by Dan Tynan
You can have your plasmas and LCDs, your CRTs and rear-projection DLPs. When it comes to watching a [...]
