You brush and floss your teeth. You bathe regularly. You back up your documents, digital music, and photos, compulsively. These are all forms of hygiene. The cost to us of not doing these things is much higher than doing them. Losing all our email and contact information would be devastating for most for of us. [...]
Android phone sales triple this year
On 2010/07/26
Sales of Android phones have risen by more than 300% this year, new figures show
reQall–a memory aid for the 21st century
On 2010/07/25
Are you overwhelmed with the minutiae of modern life? Who isn’t? reQall is a service that helps us deal with the deluge of things we have to remember and attend to.
You use it by typing text into the application or speaking into your telephone. The speech-to-text facility [...]
News that power-broking agent Andrew Wylie has bypassed conventional publishers to sell his clients’ ebooks direct to Amazon has created panic. Is it curtains for conventional publishing?
Stephen Fry reveals new BBC TV series
On 2010/07/20
Planet Word, a five-part series, will cover language – but it’s ‘a bit of a secret’, Fry tells 14-year-old interviewer
The rise of the personal appliance era
On 2010/07/18
The personal computer (PC) revolution began in the 1970s. It altered our lives. None of us ever wanted a mainframe or mini-computer in our houses but a PC was different. First it changed how we wrote, with rudimentary word processors, like WordStar, and how we calculated, [...]
Google Chrome 104 error
On 2010/07/11
I ran into an unresolvable problem with Google Chrome on a client’s XP machine this week. They use Chrome as their browser, on my recommendation. The computer was an underpowered eMachines T3120 model. Chrome is faster and less of a memory hog than other options so it made sense [...]
The chart below has been prepared for my talk on disaster planning for small businesses, to the FINE Business Network July 15, 2010, 9am-11am at the Westport Country Playhouse, Westport CT.
You can find out more general information about disaster planning at FEMA’s Continuity Of Operations Planning pages.
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Twitter’s biggest star is a man in his 70s
On 2010/07/03
Updates of grumpy wisdom from writer Justin Halpern’s old man now set to spawn a book and a William Shatner sitcom
The glacial change from analog TV to all-digital is confusing and maddening for most people. We are whipsawed by a continuing flow of abrupt changes to our decades-old habits. All we want to do is watch television. Is that too much to ask for? Although these changes are announced long before the implementation dates, the [...]
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