Mark A. Kellner

King James Bible’s 400-year reign

The King James Version of the Bible, also known as the "Authorized Version," marks its 400th anniversary in 2011, and by any measure, it has had a lasting impact on the world and on the language into which it was sent.

December 29, 2010

KELLNER: iPad is tech product of year

Here's a stunner — several technology writers, your columnist included, were mightily impressed by Apple's iPad during 2010, so much so that it is showing up on several lists as "the" top tech product of the year.

December 28, 2010

Adventist pastor Wilson dies at 90

Pastor Neal C. Wilson, 90, who served as president of the Seventh-day Adventist Church from 1979 to 1990 and was the father of the denomination's current president, died Tuesday at a care facility in Dayton, Md.

December 15, 2010

KELLNER: Gifts, gadgets for the techie in your life

Your product sounds interesting," I said to Greg Lee, a marketer of a tech device in Philadelphia. Then I posed a question I have never — not once — asked in three decades of product reviewing: "How does it perform in bed?"

December 14, 2010

Postage stamp to honor Reagan

If it was "morning in America" for former President Ronald Reagan, a commemorative postage stamp due in February to mark the Gipper's birth centennial will forever view the sunrise.

December 13, 2010

KELLNER: What to do with computer under Christmas tree

It's that time of year again - and for readers of this space, I have exactly four weeks to dispense buying advice/tips before Dec. 25. (Readers who celebrate Hanukkah are less fortunate advicewise: The Jewish festival begins at sundown Wednesday and ends Dec. 9.)

November 30, 2010

KELLNER: Leica V-Lux 2 camera is worth a close look

You never forget your first time, a rather infamous liquor ad from long ago once suggested, and much the same could be said, in a far more positive sense, for using a Leica V-Lux 2, the recently launched digital camera from the famed German maker.

November 23, 2010

KELLNER: Simpler is better for video-output displays

How do you maximize computer-screen space and flexibility? For many of us, this may not be a major issue: You have one computer, one display, and that's it. For others, it can get a bit more exciting.

November 16, 2010

KELLNER: One free ‘social’ Web browser works better

Facebook, once a mystery if you weren't a college or university student (or recent graduate), is now the virtual "public square" of the age. We all connect there, or at least 500 million of us do.

November 9, 2010

KELLNER: It’s Acrobat X in a landslide for PDF files

For many readers on the day after the 2010 midterm elections, creating and manipulating documents may not be at the top of the agenda. But, trust me, no matter who won what on Tuesday, the paper (or paperless) flood of ideas, platforms, legislation, position papers and so on will come. And that's just from the 2012 campaign organizers.

November 2, 2010

KELLNER: When the social network becomes anti-social

You are the person most responsible for your online security. Get educated, and guard your data (and your family's) online and offline.

October 26, 2010

KELLNER: Program transcribes audio quickly, accurately

MacSpeech Scribe is a deceptively good piece of software, well worth the $149.99 you would pay at full retail (though Amazon.com has it for $20 less). If you ever work with recorded speech, this is a program to consider.

October 19, 2010

KELLNER: GoodSync, Good Book, good software

This may — or may not — happen to you, but I bet you can relate: There are files on your computer at work that might be very useful to have at home, or you have portable devices such as an Apple iPhone or iPad or a Google Android-based phone, and while you set these up at home, you would rather synchronize those devices at work, or vice versa.

October 12, 2010

KELLNER: New Microsoft Office a game changer

It might not be fair to suggest that Microsoft's new Office for Mac 2011 is a Microsoft Windows "killer." However, it's fair to suggest that the pending release of this new productivity suite will knock down one of the very last barriers to bringing Apple's Macintosh operating system and hardware into enterprise domains where Windows has held hegemonic sway.

October 5, 2010

KELLNER: Print vs. digital is ‘paper or plastic’ of publishing

There are two ways to buy an issue of National Review magazine: You can subscribe to the print edition, or to the digital edition. But buying print no longer gets you the digital version, as I learned last week.

September 28, 2010

KELLNER: Adobe ‘prosumer’ tools picture-perfect

As with earlier versions, Photoshop Elements 9 is fantastic when it comes to automated picture adjustments.

September 21, 2010

KELLNER: Digital medical records make sense

Say what you will about this year's round of health reform legislation, one idea nestled in much of the talk makes, I believe, a colossal amount of sense: Digitizing a person's medical records and making that information available to the patient and other health providers.

September 14, 2010

KELLNER: Do accessorize that iPod

I'll confess to being as guilty of "accessory cupidity" as the next person. There are things one just has to have, I believe, in order to be a properly outfitted user.

September 7, 2010

KELLNER: Photoshop CS5 evokes photo-editing wizardry

If you need to work creatively with digital pictures, there is simply no better piece of software anywhere on earth than Photoshop CS5.

August 31, 2010

KELLNER: Accessories, after the Mac

It's often an afterthought, but the accessory items that come with your computer or are added on after purchase can become quite important. Apple Inc. recently launched a couple of products well worth considering, albeit only if you're a Mac user.

August 24, 2010