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Paul Gilster

Paul Gilster has been writing about technology for the News & Observer since 1986. He can be reached at gilster@mindspring.com.



When simple is better

Now that Christmas is here, I'm pondering things that last.

Updated: Oct. 23, 2005 10:56 PM | Full story

Revenge of the nerds

Updated: Oct. 23, 2005 10:43 PM | Full story

Make photos a snap

Putting photographs on computers is still a challenge for many of us.

Updated: Oct. 22, 2005 11:15 PM | Full story

Upgrade your memory

Updated: Oct. 22, 2005 4:48 PM | Full story

Time to buy a new PC?

The low prices you're seeing on PCs these days are no mirage.

Updated: Oct. 23, 2005 11:50 AM | Full story

An idea worth the wait

I'm a believer in Tablet PCs.

Updated: Oct. 23, 2005 1:20 AM | Full story

Too many choices

I've been pondering buying another personal digital assistant, a Palm this time, or maybe a Handspring model.

Updated: Oct. 23, 2005 8:29 PM | Full story

Search engines that roar

I've been trying to figure out how to describe Kartoo.

Updated: Oct. 24, 2005 5:33 AM | Full story

Is future in hard disks?

Iomega's new 750 megabyte Zip drive has me thinking about the future of portable storage.

Updated: Oct. 24, 2005 9:41 AM | Full story

MIT's bold venture

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is engaged in a remarkable experiment.

Updated: Oct. 24, 2005 3:33 AM | Full story

Up next: mouse gestures

The "point and click" methods of graphical user interfaces aren't always best, especially when they involve repetitious mouse movements.

Updated: Oct. 22, 2005 9:40 PM | Full story

Change in how we relate

I'm all thumbs when it comes to using tiny keyboards. And thumbs are what it takes to write and send a message with a Blackberry e-mail device, or a two-way pager. The key buttons are about the size of match-heads, and then there's that miniature screen to contend with.

Updated: Oct. 24, 2005 4:46 AM | Full story

A genius all but forgotten

We Americans have loved inventors from the days of Edison on.

Updated: Oct. 22, 2005 7:01 PM | Full story

IPod's deserved triumph

Apple's iPod is the best portable digital music player on the market. The sleek device, about the size of a pack of playing cards, has huge storage capacity (up to 20 gigabytes), now supports Windows PCs as well as Macs, and offers superior sound quality.

Updated: Oct. 23, 2005 5:33 PM | Full story

Thorny ethics of spyware

Is it ever right to spy on how someone uses a computer?

Updated: Oct. 22, 2005 5:10 PM | Full story

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