Apple’s iWork ‘08 a MS Office Replacement?
August 23rd, 2007
No. iWork is not a replacement for MS Office…for most people who use Office. That being professionals and really anyone who regularly trades documents back and forth between other users of Office (read: Windows Users), which is 90% of the computer-using world.
BUT, for some of us – for the select few – iWork will be all we need and more.
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Social Networking Tips
August 20th, 2007
You can’t deny that online social networking is the rage right now. In fact, it’s been the rage for so long, it’s probably peaked. Every day, I feel like I read another post about the need for a shared data pool or at least an aggregate site that can keep all of the various social networking sites’ information in one neat and tidy place. Go ahead and have a MySpace, Facebook, Xanga, and LinkedIn. The suggestions are that they all share the same data from a database that you manage, or they all provide API’s to third party pepes so that they can make software that lets you manage them all in one place. Sounds great, right?
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please, carry a notebook
August 15th, 2007
If I’ve said it once, a lot of other people have said it a thousand times. If you want to work or even have a hobby in the creative world, you have to…let me repeat…HAVE to carry a notebook.
This has been written about time and time again online as well as in various books. In fact, a google blog search of “always carry a notebook” returned more than 20 results of recent posts on the topic. The reason why? Creativity is difficult, often impossible, to schedule.
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Google SMS
August 9th, 2007
OK, OK. So I’ve been a little…um…bad about posting regularly. Though I deserve to be flogged and to spend some time in the stocks, I humbly ask for all of your forgiveness and ask that instead, you give comments on my posts. YES, I realize that’s REWARDING me for my naughtiness, but c’mon…be naughty back. It feels good.
I just wanted to drop a quick note about something that I find incredibly useful for looking up information on the fly…Google SMS. Assuming you have an unlimited or nearly unlimited SMS plan for your phone, this is a free service (currently in beta) offered by Google. The concept is simple: you text a question to Google, and it texts you back with the answer.
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