When I go, I'm going Google: I still have one of those old fashioned televisions that nothing plugs into. I can't plug a DVD player in directly, or Apple TV, or a Netflix box, or Google TV. But all I really want is Google. I recently chose Android over iPhone - it's cheap, more apps, open source, and it automatically integrates with the couple dozen Google apps I use to run my … [Read more...]
Clients Are in on The Rules, Too
"I like working with customers who are making the new rules’of work. So most of my clients are in high tech or new media sectors. I am not good at working with people in institutions who [merely?] want to improve the efficiency of existing systems." - anonymous freelancer quoted at the Strengths Foundation … [Read more...]
Google is My Hero
You know, we've written a while back about how Google stood up to the Chinese totalitarian government by refusing to turn over dissident information on demand, while other companies like Yahoo bent over and dropped their shorts, handing those kids over to decades-long prison terms without even a cough. I've sent out gmail invites to all my Yahoo contacts with just that info. … [Read more...]
1-Click Refurbish Your Business PC
As we talked about in an earlier post, you can't afford technology slow-downs (let alone melt-downs) with the equipment you use for work. There are three tools that are superb for keeping it lean, mean, and screaming faster than the day you bought it. What all of these do is clean your registry which, if you're a Windows user, was full of crap from the moment you got the PC, … [Read more...]
Technology: The Sword between Personal and Corporate Life
The contrast is startling. Average of 5mb/sec internet connections in the US - average of 60mb/sec in Japan [source] for about $25/month. South Korea, Finland, France, the Netherlands, Portugal... basically most countries that might deserve the term "wired" have faster, better internet.The US, birthplace of the personal computer and the internet, now ranks 28th in internet … [Read more...]
