Makers of tech products are often told to “eat their own dog food” – actually use what they tout in their real-world lives. The same should apply to reviewers of… Read More
Looking for great gifts for the geeks on your list? Why not make it local? Continuing an annual tradition, we’re pleased to present the third annual GeekWire Gift Guide, with help… Read More
I’m finding it harder and harder to answer a simple question. Where do you work? There are two traditional choices: at the office or at home. And there are two… Read More
It’s time to shoot the password. And multiple screens are the trigger. I had this epiphany when wrestling with one Rhapsody music service on two devices using three pieces of… Read More
[Editor’s Note: Christopher Budd worked at Microsoft for more than 10 years, specializing in security response and communications.] Yesterday every current and former Microsoft employee felt the earth shift. Microsoft… Read More
There’s what a neighborhood is called, and then there’s what comes to mind when you think of it. A San Francisco startup has made a Seattle map of the latter.… Read More
Twitter will become a public company Thursday when millions of shares in the social media company go up for sale and “TWTR” finds a home on the New York Stock… Read More
For the past three decades, I have been a psychological test subject. Not in a creepy NSA-and-tin-foil-hat kind of way, but as part of a long-term study designed to understand… Read More
My husband and I were browsing wahealthplanfinder.org this week, to see if any of these new options were better than our current self-employed health insurance plan, when we realized something.… Read More
In our public professional lives, we like to play a little game. We pretend we know exactly what we’re doing. For the most part, that game is a smiling, hand-shaking… Read More
A geek is not a nerd. And vice versa. Unless, of course, they are. When I was a kid, I wore thick black glasses, long pants that were too short… Read More
So. Where do you come down on emoticons? They’re everywhere, these tiny typed expressions, and locally, reviews are mixed: “I rely so much on emoticons to convey my emotion,” wrote… Read More
This week my friends Marika Burkhart and Justin Jensen posted some of the best engagement pictures I’ve ever seen. And they’re not even in them. Seattle photographer Shelly Corbett took… Read More
Dr. Megan Moreno once met a teen who went to bed every night with her smartphone tucked under her pillow and its alarm clock set to 2 a.m. When the… Read More
I was going to save the old CDs from the destructive clutches of my toddler. Then I thought, why? They’d been stuffed in the driver’s side door pocket of the… Read More
On this twentieth anniversary of the first popular web browser, consider how its potential was viewed just one year after its birth. If only to realize that sometimes in tech… Read More
When we asked you to submit mobile photos for a live critique by renowned photographer Chase Jarvis, hundreds of you responded, sending us great photos from around the world. We… Read More
Everything looked just as I expected inside the Uptown Espresso in Belltown. Then I noticed the dress. Deep red, form fitting and smart, it looked good on the young woman… Read More
Earlier this month a certain daily deals site sent an email to Gmail users on its list. Gmail had rolled out a “promotions” tab to filter marketing emails out of… Read More
One day last week, my Mom had had it. “I’m going to tear them apart,” she told me over the phone. “You’re going to help me. Right?” Mom was in… Read More
Anyone can take a mobile photo of you. That doesn’t mean everyone should. Every week on social streams I see awful photos of good people. I don’t know why they… Read More
Geeks and science fiction. You can almost track the rise in influence of the former by the inexorable pop-culture spread of the latter. So it was with a sense of… Read More
Like any word bound to human ambition, “innovation” is a claim as much as it’s a description. And it’s no wonder people aspire to be innovative. In a world that… Read More
There are those moments in life that occur, seemingly, in slow motion. That first teenage kiss. A bobbled piece of early morning toast headed Nutella-side down toward fuzzy carpet. A… Read More
I was taking video of my baby’s small, assisted zig-zag steps between the shelves at Ravenna’s Third Place Books when I looked at him and said something surprising. “I hope… Read More
We were making our dinner last Tuesday when the kitchen light went out. A second later, I realized the new Bruno Mars album had stopped playing. “Jason.” He was moving… Read More
As caps and gowns are returned for deposits while freshmen are readying to be deposited this fall in the college of their parents’ choice, it’s time to do some preparation.… Read More
As I try to sort out how I feel about the secret programs that have allowed the National Security Agency to collect phone call data and online communication for years,… Read More
VloggerFair, the come-one, come-all festival of vlogs and vlogging, kicked off its inaugural run at the enormous Terminal 5 building in West Seattle this weekend. Could anyone across the bridge… Read More
We took our 10-month-old son to Disneyland on Monday. When my husband watched video I’d taken of the day, I apologized. I didn’t think I’d gotten a lot of great… Read More
