Scott Sterling
Former Digital Trends Contributor
Scott Sterling is a former middle school English teacher, current freelance writer, and stay-at-home dad. He was coding HTML in middle school in the early 90's, which made him really successful with the ladies. He joined Digital Trends in 2012 and focuses primarily on popular culture, Apple, and social media. A graduate of the University of South Florida, he lives in St. Petersburg, Florida. You can find him on Twitter, @ScottIsSterling.
Put your shopping on autopilot with these subscription-based startups
Subscriptions aren’t just for magazines and newspapers anymore – now you can get anything from razors to clothes delivered to your door on a regular basis.
Will a spotless inbox really supercharge your productivity?
Inbox Zero forces you to deal with every email immediately in the quest for peace of mind and productivity. But does it work? I put it to use to find out.
A former teacher appraises Bill Gates’ plan to put a camera in every classroom
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is convinced that cameras can revolutionize the process and results of teacher observation. How would the plan differ from current observation regimes and, more importantly, can it work?
Wake up! PowerPoint alternatives and tips to caffeinate your presentations
PowerPoint has become the go-to solution for public-speaking amateurs and pros alike, but the tired tool has also become like a lullaby for audiences everywhere. Use these software alternatives and pro tips to step up your game.
New Pope, new technology, better Catholic Church?
By embracing technology to tend to his flock, Pope Francis could help usher in a forward-thinking new age for the Catholic Church.
Can a social network built for two really improve your marriage?
So-called personal social networks let you open up to your significant other online without sharing your every foible with the world, but can they really improve a relationship? My wife and I put Tokii to the test to find out.
Put down that book, your brain wants Twitter feeds
Crawling through War and Peace might get you an A in high school English, but as new research shows, our brains are actually better suited to the shorter snippets the Internet delivers.
Too late, TBS! We’re all King of the Nerds now
The tired tropes dredged up on King of the Nerds don’t reflect the reality of 2013: We’re all part of geek culture.
Why haven’t ubiquitous user reviews banished bad products from virtual shelves?
The user review has been around online shopping practically since online shopping’s been around, but it doesn’t appear to have affected the quality of products that are produced. Why not?
New Year’s resolutions for the fanboy, gadget addict and troll in all of us
Clean up your digital act in 2013 with a few New Year’s resolutions tailored for techies.
The Netflix babysitter: What parents need to know about screen time
Tablets and smartphones give kids potential 24/7 access to apps and streaming content, but like all good things, “screen time” needs to come in moderation.
Put down that iPhone, Aunt Clara will get rid of her StarTAC when she’s ready
Gift giving may bring out your tech evangelism, but forcing people to upgrade before they want or need to can be more of an inconvenience than a courtesy.
Strolling down the Memory Lane left by social media
Facebook’s “relationship pages” may be new, but the traces of online relationships go back much further, as one someone who met his wife online over a decade ago can attest.
How I tried to download new basketball skills, and only partially failed
Can the Internet turn a 30-something guy from chump to baller on the basketball court? Not quite yet.
Is reading dying or flourishing in the Internet age?
Technophobes may have hailed the death of the book with the advent of TV decades ago, but studies show we’re bigger readers now than ever.
Why the Toys ‘R’ Us Tabeo will fail, while Chuck E. Cheese flourishes
While one kid business is trying desperately to keep up with tech and failing, another effortlessly thrives without it. What’s going on?
Get old, tune out: Is technology leaving the elderly in the dust?
Today’s neck-snapping pace of innovation threatens to leave older members of society on the outside looking in through the twilight of their lives. But what can we do?
Can Twitter save NASA?
As Curiosity collects data on Mars, the rover’s Twitter banter is stoking flames of publicity back on Earth, which may be the key to keeping the feeble ember of the space program alive.
Worthless, dull, and downright dumb: The apps that make up the app market underbelly
Mobile apps have become an increasingly important part of everyday life, but the app store is full of useless ideas that do little beyond put a brand name in your hands.
Dear cars: Wake me up when you drive yourselves
In-car technology needs to go a lot further than Bluetooth and backup cameras to appeal to the average driver.
Is taking tech on vacation an intrusion or improvement?
From poolside smartphones to on-demand movies anywhere, technology has changed what it means to “get away from it all,” for better and worse.