For years, I thought vinyl was dead. But as a street kid in Brooklyn, New York. my tiny record collection was built on 45s and LPs. As much as people adored vinyl, I resented the imperfections, the ticks and pops and the inner groove distortion,  the need to replace them if you played them too […]

If you’re a regular reader of these columns, you know that I’ve had a love/hate relationship with iTunes and how it interacts not just with my various online purchases, but with my Macs and iPhone 4s. A key example is iTunes Match, which, in exchange for $24.99 per year, will match your music library with […]

All right, so I wasn’t the first person on this block (or any other block) to get an iPhone 4s. I felt no rush to upgrade, but finally decided that I might as well get one, inasmuch as my two-year contract with AT&T was up, I was enriched with a new ad deal, and they […]