Michael Rose

Editor

blog http://geekparent.com
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Mike's first Mac (a 128K original) served him well through high school and its successors (a 512KE, SE, SE/30 and IIsi) were loyal stalwarts during editorial jobs at the Carnegie Mellon college newspaper, followed by a 10-year career in editorial technology at Time Inc. titles Entertainment Weekly & LIFE. From 2001 Mike worked in IT and as a creative director for MJM Creative Services, an NYC events agency. As of May 2013 he's a Senior Sales Engineer at salesforce.com. He has written for TUAW since November 2006. Mike & his family live in Brooklyn, NY.

Michael Rose's Latest Posts

Belkin's Thunderbolt dock delivers plug-and-play flexibility

by Michael Rose (May 9th 2013 9:00AM)

It's dock o'clock, thank goodness, as Belkin's long incubation period of the Thunderbolt Express Dock closed out last month. The US$299 expansion peripheral is now shipping to customers; is it worth your attention? We've had a week to put it through its paces. The most direct product comparison ...

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Mobile device power shines with Etón's new BoostSolar

by Michael Rose (May 7th 2013 10:05AM)

It may rank closer to the "inconvenience" end on the post-disaster scale of challenges, but a lack of power for mobile devices certainly didn't help matters in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy last year. Innovative devices like the BioLite camp stove made appearances on the streets of New York as ...

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SharePractice wants your doctor to have the best advice on the iPhone

by Michael Rose (Apr 30th 2013 12:30PM)

Among the startups competing for attention (and funding) at Monday's opening round of the TechCrunch Disrupt Startup Battlefield, one unusual social app for iPhone stood out. SharePractice, from physician Andrew Brandeis and his team, aims to connect physicians to each other and give them access ...

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Talkcast tonight, 7pm PT/10 pm ET: iTunes store turns 10, quarterly results

by Michael Rose (Apr 28th 2013 6:30PM)

It's a big 1-0 for everyone's "favorite" music store, which has evolved far beyond its humble Rip, Mix, Burn origins to become the digital hub for a new generation of digital devices. Happy birthday, iTunes Music Store, and here's hoping that you make it out of your adolescence wiser and more ...

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Uber gets go-ahead for New York City e-hail service

by Michael Rose (Apr 28th 2013 5:00PM)

Talk about magical and revolutionary: the manual and unpredictable task of hailing a taxi is being completely overturned by mobile devices. In many American cities, app vendors like Uber are disrupting the livery and taxi business by providing quick and predictable service at the tap of a ...

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New iPhone ad focuses on wonder of photography

by Michael Rose (Apr 26th 2013 5:31AM)

If you're old enough to remember the Polaroid SX-70, celebrating its 41st birthday this week, you may remember how it felt to instantly, miraculously see the images you captured appear right before your eyes with one of Polaroid's cameras. Now that we all have superpowered cameras in our ...

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Crazy Talk 7 puts character animation power on your Mac

by Michael Rose (Apr 25th 2013 7:00PM)

Putting words in other people's mouths: more of a hobby than a vocation for most people, I'd say. If your work or play involves facial animation, however, you know how much work goes into making fake speech look convincingly real. Although there are impressive pro animation tools for this ...

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PLAiR streams web video to TV with your devices for 99 bucks

by Michael Rose (Apr 24th 2013 11:00PM)

If you like TV, and you like the Internet, you've got some really good options for getting those two crazy kids to play nicely together. PLAiR, newly arrived on the market, adds a platform-independent and compact device to the menu of connected television solutions that stream web video to your ...

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Talkcast tonight: T-Mobile iPhone & news of the week

by Michael Rose (Apr 14th 2013 6:10PM)

The wait is over, assuming you were waiting; now that T-Mobile has joined AT&T, Verizon and Sprint in the roster of US carriers selling the iPhone, there are more choices for customers. T-Mobile's new-look approach to plans, contracts and subsidies is making a splash; is it enough to ...

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Matrox DualHead2go adapter broadens your monitor horizons

by Michael Rose (Apr 9th 2013 8:30AM)

If your widescreen ambitions can't be contained by a mere 1920x1080 HD screenscape, the fine folks at Matrox have a solution for you. The DualHead2Go Digital Mac Edition display adapter, priced around US$160, is built and marketed specifically for the Thunderbolt and DisplayPort-enabled Mac ...

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