Ever wondered how to get more out of Evernote or DropBox? Maybe you’re looking for some pointers on your Facebook or LinkedIn profiles? If this fits you, then check out Grovo. They have a variety of topics, breaking the steps down into easily digestible video segments. Most are around 2-3 minutes. The free courses are [...]
This morning, I read the October, 2011 browser share stats over on ars technica and I’m delighted to see a new milestone. Internet Explorer once dominated the web with 90% plus usage rates. I have a couple of problems with that. Internet Explorer has a history playing fast and loose with web standards, making it [...]
Yesterday, President Obama announced changes to the Home Affordable Refinance Program (HARP). My first thought was, “good, at least we’re trying to do something to fix a broken program.” Other than that, I didn’t really care. Thanks to good fortune, I’m not underwater and I have a good rate on my mortgage. I didn’t give [...]
I’ve been a bit busy with other projects, so I haven’t found time to post lately (Seth Godin, you can slap me now). Keeping with their evolutionary approach to improving applications, Google has released another significant update to Google Docs, this time for Presentations. The best new features are transitions & animations. It just got [...]
The best new Google Apps feature for this week is the Preview Pane in Gmail. It let’s you add the message preview to the right of the message list (like Outlook 2007+), or below the message list (like our old webmail for my Baird & Warner crowd). You can enable it in your Labs. For more information, head [...]
A lot of interesting folks and interesting discussions at Real Estate Connect 2011 in San Francisco. On the technology front, seeing affirmation of our present and future plans. Another session starts in a moment, so I’ll leave you with a few “sound bites” A bunch of one-liner snapshots don’t make a business plan, but they [...]
Are you still carrying around a flash drive with your most important documents? It’s time to put the flash drive away. You can use Google Docs to replace that flash drive. Google Docs gives you unlimited storage for its native file formats, plus it gives you 1GB of storage for other file types (PDFs, Microsoft [...]
Engadget’s latest roundup of current phones from all the US carriers. Personally I’m partial to the G2x and the Nexus S Smartphone buyer’s guide: the best phones for Verizon, AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, and more! — Engadget
First round went to the iPad. Then Motorola released the Xoom, with Honeycomb (the tablet version of Android). It’s a nice tablet, but Motorola made a couple of odd choices. First, they pushed it to market without Flash (a major advantage over IOS), and they aimed for the top end of the price range. The [...]
A speedy dash from 1st to 3rd is great in baseball. When we’re talking market share, not so good. The latest Nielsen mobile market share for the U.S. is out, and it doesn’t contain good news for Blackberry fans.