filed in Odds and Ends on Jan.17, 2010
Please welcome Benjamin Joseph Marks, who entered the world at 11:23 PM on Friday, January 15, 2010. He weighed 7 lbs. 5 oz. (3.327 kg) and 20 inches (51 cm). He and his mom are doing well and came home to meet my two daughters today (Sunday). My two daughters were born in 2001 and [...]
filed in Book Review on Jan.08, 2010
My father-in-law gave me a great Christmas gift- a copy of The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs: How to Be Insanely Great in Front of Any Audience. I spend about half of my career using presentation skills, either as a business intelligence instructor, conference speaker, or technical sales consultant. So I was really pumped that [...]
filed in Odds and Ends on Aug.19, 2009
Intimidated by the plethora of apps in the Apple iTunes App Store? Josh Clark has compiled a list of over 200 “best” iPhone apps in a new book, Best iPhone Apps: The Guide for Discriminating Downloaders. The book has a companion web site, Best iPhone Apps: The Site for Discriminating Downloaders. The apps are organized [...]
filed in Odds and Ends on Apr.14, 2009
Here’s another reason for me to justify an iPhone purchase – TripIt for the iPhone. I’ve blogged about TripIt previously and find it tremendously useful for organizing my itineraries as a traveling consultant. I’m still hobbling along with a Palm Treo 680 smartphone but am anxiously looking forward to a new iPhone model, which is [...]
filed in Odds and Ends on Oct.10, 2008
Hmmm… Will there be an $800 Apple laptop under my Christmas tree this year? Apple’s Hot Ticket: New Laptops Next Week – Bits Blog – NYTimes.com Posted using ShareThis
filed in Odds and Ends on Sep.13, 2008
This week, Apple held its annual iPod launch event. The big news was the new iPod nano, in nine eye-popping colors, the iPod Shuffle in similar colors, and a revamped iPod Touch. As the “funnest” iPod ever, the iPod Touch appears to be repositioned more as a gaming device and less as a music player. [...]
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