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Mark A. Kellner was a Faith & Family reporter for The Washington Times.

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KELLNER: Listen this year for jingle bells and Zookas

It was either physicist Niels Bohr or baseball's Yogi Berra — take your pick — who declared, "Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future." That said, I'm going to make a prediction anyway: the Zooka Speaker Bar, priced at $99, will be a runaway hit this holiday season.

August 8, 2012

KELLNER: Apple’s Mountain Lion upgrade worth $20

In its first four days on the market, Apple Inc.'s OS X 10.8 operating system release, also called Mountain Lion, was downloaded more than 3 million times, the firm announced Monday. That makes it "the most successful OS X release" of the nine major OS X versions, Apple said in a statement.

August 1, 2012
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer speaks at a Microsoft event in San Francisco, Monday, July 16, 2012. Microsoft unveiled a new version of its widely used, lucrative suite of word processing, spreadsheet and email programs Monday, one designed specifically with tablet computers and Internet-based storage in mind. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

KELLNER: With new Office, Microsoft aims for the cloud

Apparently forgetting what happened when a certain soft drink company rebranded its flagship product as "New Coke," Microsoft Corp. on Monday announced "the new Office,” as a press release called it, an applications suite that will respond to your touch on a screen, a keyboard or a stylus glided across a screen.

July 18, 2012
**FILE** Stephen R. Covey, the motivational speaker best known for the book "The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People," attends a training session at Georgia State University in Atlanta on Feb. 25, 2003. (Associated Press)

KELLNER: Stephen R. Covey transcended his time

Of the millions who have traveled on New York City's subways, perhaps none had as transformative a journey -- for himself and, later, for millions around the world -- as Stephen R. Covey did one Sunday morning decades ago.

July 17, 2012
**FILE** Stephen R. Covey, the motivational speaker best known for the book "The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People," attends a training session at Georgia State University in Atlanta on Feb. 25, 2003. (Associated Press)

Stephen Covey, ‘7 Habits’ author, dead at 79

Stephen R. Covey, 79, a onetime management professor at Brigham Young University who burst into global prominence with "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People," died Monday at a hospital in Idaho Falls, Idaho. He was 79 years old.

July 16, 2012

KELLNER: Be prepared, disasters will happen

Writing to French physicist Jean Baptiste Leroy some 223 years ago, 83-year-old Benjamin Franklin reported that the young American republic was under way: "Our Constitution is in actual operation.

July 11, 2012
Mark Kellner

KELLNER: Flat-file database Bento won’t leave users flat-footed

Simplicity and software are words not often found together: A glance at the toolbars for, say, Microsoft's Word or Excel programs will confirm that. Even working with something as relatively simple as a portable document file (PDF) document can become a little intimidating as Adobe Acrobat pops into view.

June 27, 2012

KELLNER: When traveling, resourcefulness helps

In the evening, a cooling breeze blows onshore from the Sea of Galilee, or the Kinneret, as it's known in Hebrew. During June days, temperatures can top 100 degrees Fahrenheit.

June 13, 2012

KELLNER: The last Windows operating system?

Here's a thought: Microsoft's Windows 8 operating system, available as a free "preview" now and due in stores this autumn, might be the last operating system to bear the Windows name.

June 6, 2012

KELLNER: Shopping tips for dads, grads and you

Although Mother's Day is just behind us, the spring-summer gift-giving season is by no means over. For graduates and for dads, a tech gift might loom large. (And if Mom wasn't happy with the "Hunger Games" book set you presented, something tech-oriented might get you out of the doghouse.)

May 16, 2012
Mark Kellner

KELLNER: Business cards via Internet a small, vital part of revolution

The humble business card may seem truly old-fashioned, even out of place, in a digital epoch where we can share our contact information via email, Facebook or LinkedIn. But there's still a place for something printed with one's name, title, company and address on it. Until a few years ago, the options for buying those cards usually involved investments of time and money - often a fair amount of both.

May 9, 2012
Muslims pray at the Islamic Center of America in Dearborn, Mich. The U.S. Muslim community increased 160 percent from approximately 1 million members in 2000 to 2.6 million in 2010. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Muslim, Mormon growth spurts found

Mormonism and Islam are among the fastest growing religions in America, while just over half of all Americans are unaffiliated with any denomination, according to a major census of the country's religious congregations published Wednesday.

May 2, 2012
**FILE** Onetime Watergate felon-turned-prison evangelist Charles Colson bears testimony Aug. 2, 2000, at a conference for 10,000 evangelical Protestants at Amsterdam's RAI congress center. (Associated Press)

Chuck Colson, Nixon’s ‘hatchet man,’ dies at 80

Chuck Colson, 80, the onetime "hatchet man" to President Nixon who devoted his post-political career to Christian causes and an international ministry to prisoners, died Saturday at Inova Fairfax Hospital. Complications from bleeding on the brain are believed to have contributed to his final illness.

April 21, 2012

KELLNER: Nokia’s ignoble effort at an iPhone killer

Nine years ago, on a trip to Tampere, Finland, I rode past the nearby city of Nokia, my host telling me that the then- and still-famous maker of cellphones started life there as several companies, one of which made products out of rubber, including fishing boots.

April 11, 2012