The Crier
Articles by Forest Casey
Apple, DRM, the EU, and Other Boring Acronyms
Tech · Apr 05, 2007
So far, Apple has managed to squeak by with an almost obnoxiously clean record. Here’s why they may be in for their first major bruising.
A Troika of Secrets
Ann Arbor Secrets · Mar 20, 2007
Free software, hidden doors, and blue plate specials.
No Photos Allowed
Tech · Mar 15, 2007
Soon, camera phones will have multiple megapixels, good enough for its photographs to be published in a newspaper. Until that day comes, however, I prefer to struggle with my SLR. Here’s what Chicago’s Body Worlds exhibit taught me about photography.
Never Worry About Online Homework Again
Ann Arbor Secrets · Mar 12, 2007
Online homework has one fatal flaw: It’s online.
A Tale of Two Cities: Why Game Centers Don’t Work in Ann Arbor
Tech · Feb 19, 2007
It was a unique concept, it was a bland concept: a facility for gamers to come together and pay-to-play on the latest technology, without shelling out hundreds on a personal system
Free Movies in Minutes
Ann Arbor Secrets · Feb 19, 2007
BitTorrent is doing to movies what Napster did to music. But too few people actually know how to use it. Let Ann Arbor Secrets show you the path to fast, free movies.
How to Get Free Printing
Ann Arbor Secrets · Feb 12, 2007
Why limit yourself to a paltry 400 pages per semester? You deserve so much more. The Crier’s Ann Arbor Secrets brings free printing to the people.
Get Off of My Cloud
Tech · Feb 05, 2007
Discrimination is an ugly thing. If I had to put a face on it, I would say that it would be bulbous and round, a…
No More Tickets: Learn the Free Parking Trick
Ann Arbor Secrets · Feb 05, 2007
Every time we jaywalk across North University, we’re reminded that the University is a pedestrian campus. It seems as if the Ann Arbor City Council…
The Good Fight
Tech · Jan 29, 2007
A few weeks ago, in a showing of unbridled benevolence, my ex-boss and surrogate father drove his yellow Mini Cooper down to Ann Arbor to…
Public Secrets
Ann Arbor Secrets · Jan 29, 2007
This is a very odd column. In no other field does the topic of a piece of writing cease to be a part of that…
