A few items I’ve been working on for a while finally made their debut this week, making me seem far more productive than I really was.

4/23/2013: Road Testing the Newest Wave in Taxi Hailing Apps, The Atlantic Cities

I tried three smartphone apps that let you book and pay for a taxi–Uber, Taxi Magic and myTaxi–for The Atlantic’s urbanite blog. Note the comment I left to pass on an update and a clarification about myTaxi and Uber.

4/24/2013: TV Tech Night, Best Night In

TV Land ran me up to New York in early April to record a few segments about TV-viewing upgrades for its interview series. If you watched Monday’s run of “Everybody Loves Raymond” on that channel, you could have seen all of them; there’s a condensed version of host Leila Sbitani quizzing me at the link above.

4/24/2013: Samsung’s Galaxy S 4 is a No-Touch-Touchscreen, Not-Quite-Android Android Phone, Boing Boing

I reviewed Samsung’s latest Android smartphone. In retrospect, this post was a little too harsh about the Galaxy S 4’s camera and not harsh enough about its keyboard and the counterproductive behavior of some of its gesture-control options. You can read some interesting feedback about this phone’s operating costs in the comments and in a Reddit thread about the review.

4/24/2013: Samsung’s Galaxy S 4 Strives For Sentience, Discovery News

In my second review about this phone, I went into more detail about how the phone’s sensors and accompanying applications aim for an unprecedented level of situational awareness.

4/24/2013: Sizing up the Samsung Galaxy S 4, WTOP

Washington’s news-radio station interviewed me about the phone. (Tip: If you need to do a radio interview over the phone shortly after a baseball game, the steps in Yards Park that lead down to its “waterwall” make for a pretty quiet spot.)

4/25/2013: Feed Me, See More, The Magazine

I dug into BuzzFeed’s image-appropriation habits for this iPad/Kindle/Web publication. I expected to hear griping from photographers who had seen their work duplicated without permission, much less compensation; I and my editor Glenn Fleishman were surprised to get more appreciative responses. (The Magazine costs $1.99 a month to subscribe–an eminently reasonable price! It also lets authors repost their work elsewhere 30 days later, so look for the piece here in late May.)

4/26/2013: Resolved: Competing Over Pocket-Sized Screen Resolution Has Gotten Out Of Hand, Disruptive Competition Project

Many recent phones, the Galaxy S 4 included, go beyond the “pixel density” of the iPhone’s Retina Display to pack in more resolution than you can hope to see without magnification. Why do manufacturers bother, and what could they have done with those engineering and manufacturing resources instead?

4/27/2013: How to keep your computer ‘awake’, USA Today

A stay with family last weekend yielded two items for this week’s column: one about Windows’ ill thought-out interface for changing how often you’ll have to enter your account password, another about the downsides of registry-cleaner apps.

By a huge margin, my most-read post on Sulia this week was a comparison of the purchase and service costs of the Galaxy S 4 on the big four carriers. I also complained about how difficult it can be to share that phone’s multimedia-enriched photos, endorsed using FlightAware to check for air-travel delays, implored America not to judge Washington by the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, and wondered why company reps shy away from comments threads in stories about their employers or clients.

Updated 4/29 to fix an incomplete headline.