Author Biography
Glenn Fleishman is a TidBITS contributing editor and a Seattle journalist who covers technology for publications like The New York Times, Popular Science, and The Economist. He blogs daily about Wi-Fi and other wireless networking at Wi-Fi Networking News. Glenn lives in Seattle with his wife Lynn, sons Ben and Rex, two iPhones, and a dozen Macs of various vintages.
Most Popular Articles
- Prune Your Time Machine Backups Selectively (01 May 2008)
- Reluctantly Switching from Eudora to Apple Mail (13 Apr 2008)
- Hand Coding HTML Is Still in Vogue (25 Apr 2008)
- Iridium-Capable iPhone Not Entirely Laughable (13 Apr 2008)
Recent TidBITS Talk Discussions
- OmniFocus: the interface is weak but the project is willing (11 messages)
- Anyone tried the Online Passport application system? (20 messages)
- Phone Message Software Recommendation please (8 messages)
- auto-filing of read mail in Apple Mail (7 messages)
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Glenn Fleishman
Contributing Editor
Lovingly Craft Your HTML
Writing HTML by hand has the same relationship to graphical Web authoring tools as a chisel has to a jackhammer.Read more...
The Internet Organizes Itself: Here Comes Everybody
What happens when hundreds of millions of people come together online? Politicians fall from grace, businesses form out of nowhere, and people have new ways to share popular - and unpopular - interests, hobbies, and physical behaviors. In "Here Comes Everybody," Internet social commentator Clay Shirky examines the lot.Read more...
Conversions of a Twitter Revert
Twitter sucked too much of my time away because I liked it too much. I've turned off the flow, which makes me sad, but more productive.Read more...
Amazon Delivers Like It's 1999
A new grocery delivery service from Amazon being tested in Seattle reminds this author of the heyday of the early dotcom era. This time, however, there's a chance for a company to make money.Read more...
Leopard Envy and Tiger Inertia
I have made the mistake on previous releases of Mac OS X, other operating systems, and even software applications of upgrading immediately on a "dot zero" (.0) release, something I typically advise others to avoidRead more...
Hands on with Kindle
Impressions of the Kindle: it's neat, it works as advertised, but it's gawky. And the forced justification isn't the smartest idea for legibility.Read more...
Powerless? iPhone Provides a Light
In a brief power outage, I discovered the joy of continuous Internet connectivity with my iPhone. I express outrage at the outage reporting, too.Read more...
Infinite Recursion with Screen Sharing
I was experimenting with Leopard Screen Sharing and its backwards compatibility with VNC - see "Screen Sharing with Leopard Extends to Tiger," 2007-10-26 - when I managed to produce this lovely recursive screen captureRead more...
Network Security Podcast on Leopard
I was a guest this week on the Network Security Podcast, speaking with Rich Mogull, a frequent TidBITS contributor. We spoke about the early concerns with the security model and certain parts of the way it works in LeopardRead more...
Vega, Like the Star?
Doo doot doo doo, doo doot doo doot, doo doot doo doo doo doo doo doot... Suzanne Vega makes a guest appearance by inference in Leopard's post-installation startup music. Conspiracy? Coincidence? You decide.Read more...
Leopard Review in the Seattle Times
Jeff and I write a biweekly column for The Seattle Times called "Practical Mac," which means we're writing to the converted - we don't have to justify the use of a Mac or explain itRead more...
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My Real Breakfast with Fake Steve Jobs
Dear diary: I had breakfast with Fake Steve Jobs! He showed me the next-generation iPod (hint: it requires minor surgery to use), gave me a shiny new penny, and then wiped my memory using his reality distortion field. All I recall is eating a bagel with a Boston-based Forbes reporter named Dan Lyons.Read more...
Talking Your Way Out of a Plastic Bag
Turns out that an iPhone is interoperable with plastic baggies.Read more...
Cheap UK Wi-Fi Access Offered for iPod touch
It's not free, but if you're a UK iPod touch user, you might want to look into The Cloud's inexpensive Wi-Fi access plan.Read more...
How We Know Flash Memory Prices Have Really Dropped
I know that flash memory is now incredibly cheap - I keep having double takes every time I look at DealRAM, and see that an 8 GB Kingston SD card is just $90Read more...
Apple Sells Millionth iPhone
Someone got the golden ticket, and it's probably Steve Jobs. Apple has sold its millionth iPhone, the company announced, reaching that mark in just 74 daysRead more...
Breakfast, Dinner, Launch: A New Design
The new TidBITS infrastructure moves us from 1997 to 2007 in a single swoop at the expense of blood, sweat, and tears.Read more...
UPS, I Did It Again: Bits Versus Atoms
Our long-time co-location facility, Digital Forest - the folks that house our servers and provide juice, cooling, and connectivity - needed to add additional capacity for their power backup. Even though the large new units would slide through the building, it was unclear whether certain paths along the way were engineered to handle that much point weight. Why not rip open the roof, instead?Read more...
Apple Store Security Breached in Seattle: Mission Impossible Edition
The Apple Store in Seattle's University Village mall suffered a security breach - through the roof! Thieves broke in and stole laptops that were left for repair, which will be a bummer for those who didn't heed Apple's advice to back up computers before serviceRead more...
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