Ok, this isn’t anything new but I was just thinking about how useful it is. It is called Dropbox. It could be as simple as an offline file backup… pretty boring, right? Wrong. A backup might be how you use it if you just have one computer. I have three computers (two Macs and a Windows [...]
Ask Cha Cha! (it’s free)
I’ve been meaning to talk about this for some time. Somewhere in the cross-country move, I lost sight of doing this video. Anyway, I keep seeing commercials for services that use SMS or text messaging to find answers to questions. They cost money! Then there is Ask Cha Cha. It is a service that has [...]
Decisions
My soon-to-be ex-wife just shared with me something that she wrote for our kids. I found it to be very well done and asked her if I could share it with whoever might read it here. She wrote it when our oldest was going through a bout of being possessed by some demon. He is [...]
Been a while
Man, I turn around and realize that I’ve been ignoring my blog. Sorry folks. Not that what I’m adding tonight is terribly noteworthy… just a nametag, woohoo! The nametag is for any Social Media Club meeting. Two files. One is the generic, download and print PDF version, the other is the PSD (Photoshop) version with [...]
Because that is the way it has always been done
The title of this post is a phrase I’ve heard way too many times. It is the refuge for those that either can’t, won’t or just aren’t given reason to think. Years ago when I worked for a rather large publishing company, I sat in a cubicle for roughly 8 hours a day. Several mornings [...]
Another story about getting fired because of myspace?
Today, during lunch at Arby’s, I saw a story about someone getting fired because of something they said online. Sure, there are PLENTY of these stories and I’ve written on this subject from a job-seeker’s point of view in the past. This one is a little different. This time, the comments the employees were terminated [...]
bad user interface practice #2
Hello again! So this installation of bad interface practices is one that has bugged me for quite a while. It is something that many of are so used to that we don’t question it. It is the START menu in most flavors of the Microsoft Windows operating system. Here is what annoys me about it. [...]
bad user interface practice #1
I have had a few of these in my thoughts as of late. They are things that we interact with, some many times a day, that are just plain silly. Most don’t really slow us down too much but, well, they annoy me. The emergency brake in my Mom’s Chrysler Minivan (and many other vehicles [...]
Review: Topify
I found a rather nice 3rd party tool for responding to follows and direct messages from twitter users.
Expand Horizons
If you haven’t checked out ted.com, you should. Then you can also check out academicearth.org and youtube’s offering at www.youtube.com/edu It is all the smart stuff with none of the Numa Numa or “boom goes the dynamite”. If you don’t know what those things are, check out those first… They are much quicker. Then get [...]