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Considering the Blue Pill…
Sure, and there’s stuff you can do with digital that you could never do with physical media. I travel with hundreds of books in my backpack. I can choose what movie I want to watch on the plane. Mix tape from 100’s of albums when and where I want? Sure, I’m future boy!
It’s all upside, right? What could be wrong? But about this time in any SyFy movie, you know the foreboding music is about to rise and everything you’ve been enjoying is about to turn on you. Continue reading
Posted in Audience, Books, Entertainment, Geeking around, Media, Movies, Personal, Random thoughts, SciFi Fantasy, Software, Technology, Travel, Writing
Tagged apple, browser, comics, digital, fanboy, media, technology
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Wireless… Not Really.
Looking at the otherwise seductive Moto 360, I’m struck by the beauty of the watch and the confusion it represents. Its charger is labeled “wireless” which is mismanaged marketing of what is more correctly known as inductive charging. Inductive charging means … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Design, Geeking around, Hardware, Random thoughts, Technology, Travel
Tagged electronics, inductive charging, progress, technology, watches
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Warning Wunderlist Users!
UPDATE: Apparently @WunderlistHelp just tweeted the following. Wunderlist Support@WunderlistHelp If you’re missing lists, they are safe. Please sign out and back in again. So sorry for the trouble! I have not tried this, will check … Continue reading
Posted in Geeking around, Personal, Technology, Thoughts, Uncategorized, Writing
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Swallow the red pill…
As you may already know from prior posts, as well as producing the weekly podcast, I often write for a website called Fanboy Planet. Fanboy Planet reports on all the silly and serious aspects of being a fan in this … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Entertainment, Games, Geeking around, History, Media, Movies, Personal, Random thoughts, SciFi Fantasy, Software, Technology, Writing
Tagged business, comics, digital, fanboy, geek, hacking, Internet Explorer, media, money, music, pirate, rights, software, technology, writing
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The Shiny New Blog
Hey! You either followed the breadcrumbs or somehow just got lucky and stumbled into the new blog location. Congratulations either way. I’m really happy you made it here. For years I’ve used the free WordPress-hosted blogging, and I was happy. … Continue reading
Posted in Design, Geeking around, History, Personal, PowerPoint, Presentations, Software, Technology, Uncategorized, Writing
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Leap Motion – First Impressions and Demo
Postman bought my new Leap Motion controller this week. Minutes after installing it (and figuring out I’d placed it on the desktop upside down!) it was up and working. This video is my first few impressions of the orientation application … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Geeking around, Hardware, Media, Personal, PowerPoint, Presentations, Software, Technology, Thoughts
Tagged 3d, controller, cross-platform, demo, geek, leap, Microsoft, motion, ui, user interface
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How Screwed-Up is Apple Safari? I Think It Needs Therapy.
Some people think that because I worked for Microsoft for so many years that I’m an Apple hater. Well, that’s not actually true. Fact is, I’ve had a Macintosh on my desks, at work and home, pretty much constantly since … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Design, Geeking around, Media, Organizations, Software, Technology, Thoughts
Tagged apple, Chrome, Internet Explorer, Microsoft, Safari, WWDC
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Savino Wine Preservation System Unboxing
Sometimes we have to put the tech, and the presenting and the other stuff geeky aside and just enjoy a glass of wine. But maybe we can combine a few of these. The latest tech in wine storage. The geeky … Continue reading
Posted in Entertainment, Food and drink, Geeking around, Personal, Technology, Uncategorized
Tagged Kickstarter, Savino, Unboxing, Wine
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Love of Books – An Unboxing of “The Fifty Year Sword”
I’m a big fan of books. Not just the stories, but the book construction as well. From bindings, paper choice, typeset, typography, layout, it’s all interesting to me. Mark Z. Danielewski is most famous for House of Leaves, an inventive … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Design, Entertainment, Geeking around, Movies, Personal, Technology, Uncategorized, Writing
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The Facebook Face Flip
This is not a political post, although a quick reading without comprehension will surely give some that impression. Trust me, and read on. I was reading this evening about how you can actually see people “unliking” Mitt Romney’s Facebook page … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Design, History, Media, Organizations, Personal, PowerPoint, Presentations, Random thoughts, Technology, Thoughts, Writing
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The First Thing to Do to Your New PowerPoint 2013…
Warning, I’m pretty opinionated when it comes to a garish design that I have to look at for hours at a time. I find it personally offending and I’m not going to mince words here. Luckily there’s a quick fix … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Design, Geeking around, PowerPoint, Presentations, Software, Technology, Thoughts
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Four Days to Better Presenting – Yes, You Can!
Oh dear. Another drab blog entry about presenting. Well, maybe not. If you hear the title Presentation Summit, you might picture an international cabal, those folks from around the world whose job it is to keep presentations bland, sleep-inducing and … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Design, Personal, PowerPoint, Presentations, Software, Technology, Travel
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PowerPoint History, 25 years ago…
This has to be quick. Sorry for any typos or errors, but I’m packing, medicating, and generally running about today and this could not wait. I got a very nice letter from Bob Gaskins yesterday. If you don’t recognize the … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Business, Deals, Design, Geeking around, History, Media, Organizations, Personal, PowerPoint, Presentations, Software, Technology, Thoughts, Writing
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25 Gigs for Nothin’ And The Clicks for Free…
Ok, I’ll apologize for that title first. Sounded better in my head. Wanted to get this out fast because according to a quick poll of friends a lot of people may have missed the news. Hope you already had a … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Deals, Geeking around, PowerPoint, Presentations, Software, Technology
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GoPayment Vs. Square – One More Thing, One Less Thing…
I signed up for Intuit’s new GoPayment card system yesterday. Thought I’d share a few thoughts. GoPayment is a way for regular folks to take credit card payments from other regular folks using your cell phone or tablet. It’s advertised … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Geeking around, Personal, Random thoughts, Software, Technology, Thoughts, Uncategorized
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QuickTechThought: Our Red Toaster
Our pretty red toaster died this week. Sunbeam Oster. It wasn’t even three years old. I know, I know, they don’t make things like they used to. But it’s just a toaster, it’s supposed to be pretty fundamentally simple. … Continue reading
The Ultimate PowerPoint Survivor…
Here’s a trivia question for you. PowerPoint has been around forever. Bob Gaskins, the father of PPT puts the start date for the team as 1984. Lots of great folks have come and gone, and a few have even come … Continue reading
Posted in Business, History, Organizations, Personal, PowerPoint, Presentations, Software, Technology
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How Facebook Will (May Have Already) F#@k You Up
Really, I’m not doing much here. Just trying to draw your attention to someone else’s work on how Facebook’s recent bout of ill-conceived changes continue to mess with your privacy, your communications, and your ability to actually use the system … Continue reading
Nest Learning Thermostat
Last Friday I installed a new thermostat in the house, the first one since we moved in. Now the prior thermostat was programmable, hourly and daily you could configure it to heat and cool as you like. It made a … Continue reading
Posted in Design, Geeking around, Health, Home and Family, Personal, Random thoughts, Technology, Uncategorized
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This Just In: Microsoft Fails to Get the Macintosh – or just good installation practices…
Just got notified that there’s a Silverlight update for the Mac. OK, I’ll update, what’s the… Wow. The instructions are so dense with unnecessary text, and eventually tell you to first uninstall any previous version, which necessitates removing half-a-dozen files … Continue reading
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