A Question For You..

I think that I am going to start blogging from here and sharing out to Google+ rather than posting directly in Google+. What do you think of deep linkling? Bad idea? I know I get anoyed when I have to click 2 or 3 times to get to the root, but I need a home base that is more my own. 

Quick & Dirty Tips :: Twitter

If you are like me and use Twitter as a way to communicate in a "quick and dirty" way then reading this post by Grammar Girl will help with etiquette. Micro-blogging is much more difficult than it seems, 140 characters is limiting.

Grammar Girl's Strunk & Twite: An Unofficial Twitter Style Guide

Nerf N-Strike Raider CS-35: Lil' Dick Tracy's Automatic Tommy Gun With 35-Dart Drum Magazine

I would love to have this new Nerf Tommy gun for the next office war! Oh, it's on...

Nerf N-Strike Raider CS-35: Lil' Dick Tracy's Automatic Tommy Gun With 35-Dart Drum Magazine

If you are wondering what an office war looks like then check out this Youtube HD video.

Office War!

The Death Of “Web 2.0″

I think that  Robin Wauters over at TechCrunch has a great summation of the death of Web 2.0.  Check it out and leave a comment.

The Death Of “Web 2.0″ .

Nano's Become Accessible

First a little about me.  I am visually impaired and work in the Assistive Technology field.  When I heard that the new iPod Nano was going to have spoken menus I almost fell out of my chair.  This is the one feature that has eluded blind and visually impaired iPod users since the beginning of the line resulting in hacking the iPod to put a Linux distro on it that does this same thing.  As a visually impaired Mac user, I say thank you to Apple for making this monumental step in what I consider to be the right direction.  You can read a great article on TUAW about this ne feature here if you are interested.  Me I am very happy about this.  I would be really, really happy if they rolled this feature out to all iPods, and the iPhone via the new 2.1 firmware release on Friday.

Podiobooks.com Is Amazing.

I am a huge fan of audiobooks.  The free ones, like a free cup of coffee are the best.  I was watching 'Internet Superstar" and heard about a great author who is offering his serialized audiobook on line for free through a website called Podiobooks.  I thought as an avid audiobook listener it was worth a look.  Let me tell you, this is an amazing audiobook site full of excellent work under the creative commons license and totally free (donations optional).  I am listening to two audiobooks currently, '65 Below' and 'Infected' and loving them.  When you sign up for an account, you subscribe to the audiobook(s) of your choice from the catalogue, and then select how often you want a chapter delivered to your itunes account (or other podcatcher) in the form of a podcast.  I have mine set for every three days.  Check this site out if you love audiobooks like I do!

Apple Anouncements

Well Apple had their big event today and I have to say that I was underwhelmed. I have yet to figure out if it was due to the fact that there where no surprises as a result of leaks from the past few weeks or that Steve just made a general menton of the 2.1 update which still does not (I assume) include cut and paste. I will have to report on the outcome on Friday when the update drops.

Dropbox Invites To Give Away

I have been using Dropbox as a Mobileme's iDisk Substitute for cloud storage mainly because I use the Mac GTD app Things.  The purpose of Dropbox in this context is so I can sync across several Macs by pointing Things at the Dropbox folder on each Mac. The suggestion came from the Cultured Code Things forum that I give Dropbox a try, and it works like a charm.  Without any question this is the best iDisk alternative.  You can check it out at www.getdropbox.com if you like. And Dropbox has created a snappy iPhone web interface to boot. Unfortunately it is an invite only beta at this point, so....

I have 9 Dropbox invites to give away.  First come first serve.

"Things" on my iPhone 3G

Well after trying all of the GTD apps for the iPhone, I have finally settled on "Things".  At 9.99 on the app store Things comes in at about mid-range in price.  The desktop version of "Things" is free for now and will be 49.99 by the end of this summer.  I tried all of the free GTD apps and even went as far as to buy the holy grail of GTD apps "Omnifocus".  While "Omnifocus" was a robust GTD solution for the iPhone it was hampered by the fact that in order to sync you had to have two things.  On, was a mobile me account (Which I have.) and a beta copy of the new desktop version of "Omnifocus" for the Mac.  There is a non-beta version of "Omnifocus" but it does not sync with the iPhone app.  Not with standing the fact that you have to shell out another 79.99 for the desktop app after paying 19.99 for the iPhone app, I like "Omnifocus" but beta software is never a trustworthy system as depicted by the GTD methodology.

As far as "Things" is concerned, it is not quite as robust as "Omnifocus", but it certnly does what it promised, including following the GTD methodology.

I will post a full review of things by the end of this week to follow-up this post.

iPhone G3 Love

I have returned from a moritorium on posting due to work and school with a shoutout to Apple for blessing us Canadians with the iPhone 3G.  What an amazing device.  Once I have a week of use in on the device I will post my thoughts and a list of my favorite apps.