From the Desk of David Pogue Pogues Posts Blog. I get plenty of reader e mail, and if I had to graph the question categories, What should I buy would be the tallest bar by far. The New York Times just dropped a lengthy and detailed report on Silicon Valleys oftrumored, rarely spoken about sexual harassment problem. More than two dozen. Are you wondering if the websites you use are blocked in China Click here to find out I got to where I am like a lot of new arrivals to New York City haveI went out and introduced myself to complete strangers who had no reason to invest in me or. Specializes in computer software and web development. List of services provided and company products available. Discover why BlackBerry is the leading smartphone device solution. Cell Phones and smartphones with video, software and services to connect mobile professionals to. Read social media and tech articles from the L. Obras De Bertolt Brecht Pdf more. A. Times, covering technology news, social media, apps, electronics and more technology business news. The Timess technology columnist, David Pogue, keeps you on top of the industry in his free, weekly e mail newsletter. Sign up See Sample. If you could hold your finger down on that bar to explode it into sub bars, What do you own would be a pretty tall one. Imagine, in other words, if your job let you test and try every single brand of camera, tablet, phone, laptop and GPS, which would you buy for you and your own family Thats why, every couple of years, I write the following post What Pogue Actually Bought. Hope its useful to somebody. New York Times Blackberry Download Desktop' title='New York Times Blackberry Download Desktop' />Main computer. A 1. Mac. Book Pro. I also have a Windows desktop and laptop, and theres an i. Sonic Pc Games. Mac in the kitchen for the kids, but the laptop is my main machine. Id love to get a Mac. Book Air, which is just as fast and far lighter and thinner. My problem is storage. The Air uses a chunk of memory, a solid state drive SSD as its hard drive, rather than a physical, spinning disk. Thats great. Fewer moving parts, faster start up, better battery life. But SSDs are very expensive, and come in small capacities. The biggest one you can get in an Air is 2. Mac. Book Pro. I traffic in photos and videos Id run out of space quickly on a 2. Ive been experimenting with other solutions keeping my main photo and video collections at home on an external drive, for example, and having only the latest on my laptop. For now, though, Im hauling around two extra pounds and a DVD drive I never use. Camera. I bought the amazing Canon S1. I wrote about my reasons here. But in two weeks, Ill be switching my allegiance. You cannot believe whats about to come down the photographic pike. Trust me If youre in the market for a small camera with astonishing photographic results, hold off for a few weeks. I also have a Nikon D8. SLR thats showing its age. It still takes fantastic pictures, but I ache for better speed and to be able to capture video. Truth is, I use it less and less in the age of big sensor, pocketable cameras. But Im thinking of replacing it one of these days with a D5. Phone. I have an i. Phone 4. S. Im constantly looking at and testing Android phones, which are just getting better and better  the imminent Samsung Galaxy S III looks positively juicy but for now, features like Siri and the whole i. Purple127/v4/9e/15/38/9e15385b-4200-0c44-807a-35fa8f55497b/source/520x293bb.jpg' alt='New York Times Blackberry Download Desktop' title='New York Times Blackberry Download Desktop' />Cloud thing are keeping me in the Apple camp. Its a Verizon phone. As an East Coaster, my fondness for the Verizon networks ubiquity led me to overcome my cynicism regarding Verizon, the company. Phone case. None. I know Im tempting fate, but the Gorilla glass hasnt yet let me down, and if youre going to buy a phone for its slimness and beauty, why bury it in plastic GPS. We own two cars a Honda Fit and a Toyota Prius V. Theyre absolutely fantastic cars Im so proud of myself for choosing them. They both have built in GPS. In general, the Hondas GPS is light years better than the Toyotas. For one thing, it doesnt lock you out when the car is in motion, so the passenger can program in your address while you drive. For another thing, its simply better designed. The Priuss GPS weirdly lists my town as being in NY Metro Region instead of Connecticut, for example. But the Priuss built in GPS has a perk that, lets hope, will soon come to all cars the ability to speak your destination address instead of painstakingly tapping it in on the touchscreen. And you can do it while youre driving. West Hartley Extension, New Rochelle, New York. Bingo youre on your way. Ive waited years for this. Software. My family relies upon Busy. Cal for our calendar, which is just about one of the best programs Ive ever used for anything. Fast, crashproof, simple, attractive, and it speaks to all the online calendars like Googles and i. Clouds. The rest of my life is spent in Mail, Word, Excel, Photoshop, File. Maker and this ancient freeform database cards program called i. Data. My notes, lists, brainstorms, phone numbers, driving directions, recipes, Christmas gift ideas and other thoughts have been happily trapped in that program and its predecessors for 2. I also use Text. Expander, which expands typed abbreviations for better speed and accuracy, and a little free macro program called Spark, which lets me open various programs and perform other functions with keystrokes of my choosing. And Dropbox. Wow, I love Dropbox, although Ive added Sky. Drive 7 free gigabytes instead of 2 to my desktop, too. Online. Almost every day, I stop in to Twitter Im pogue to post a link to my latest column, or, if I dont have one, to post a joke of the day. I usually manage a Facebook visit, too, to see whats going on in my social circle. What else is on my bookmarks bar NYTimes. Techmeme, Google Voice, my kids school homework assignments site, my blog and the local commuter train schedule site. Ive just moved my online photo galleries to Smug. Mug, for the reasons I wrote about in the Times today. Im really excited I feel as though Mobile. Mes demise, in this regard, was good for me. Noise canceling headphones. In January, I reviewed the latest noise canceling headphones a must gadget for anyone whos a passenger in planes, trains or automobiles. I wound up buying my favorite of the lot the AKG K4. NC. Expensive, but holy fuselage, did I make the right call. These things pack down smaller than the rivals, sit so much more comfortably on the ears six hour flight Laptop bag. Every time I leave the house, I carry a T. S. A. friendly Timbuktu bag meaning that its laptop compartment folds out for the airport X ray so that I dont have to remove the laptop. I originally raved about this bag, but with wear, Ive found that its become side heavy. And the laptop compartment has lost its shape, meaning it takes two hands to slip the laptop inside. It might be time to move on. Inside that bag and its pockets, heres what youll find laptop, charger and video output adapter. Camera and charger. Three flash drives. Phone synccharge cable. Those AKG headphones. Checkbook. Pens. Emergency reading glasses these cool fold up ones. Emergency bag of mixed nuts. And there you go the 2. What Pogue Bought list. I know, I know Im a minimalist. But Im working on it.