Twitter isn’t new. However I am new to Twitter, having only signed up since my return to Knoxville from Las Vegas, NM, in May. The video that follows gives a good overview of what it is and an explanation of how to begin using it. How one uses this microblogging tool is left to your [...]
I spent 55 minutes of my early Saturday morning watching this video, laughing and sometimes being moved to tears, but overall feeling it was one of the best hours I’ve spent in a long time. Instead of watching some inane TV program, do yourself a favor and spend that hour watching this remarkable teacher. When [...]
This episode of Robert Scoble’s Fastcompany explains in more detail what Evernote is and what it is capable of doing. It runs about 28 minutes and some of the best stuff is in the second half. If you can spare the time to watch this discussion, thinking of your own situation as I did of [...]
I’ve been using Evernote for about six or seven months now. I find it to be incredibly useful! The video above is one of many available at this link. This is one sweet application and after my early experiences with it, I decided a day or so ago to go ahead and pay the $45 [...]
I find it much easier to understand new products if I watch their introductory video. I’ve been doing a lot of that lately, so I thought I’d share a few of the ones that have impressed me. Such things as Dropbox, Evernote, Zotero, and the like make help make the job of assembling and collaborating [...]
Even back about 20 years ago we were talking about self talk. Self talk is that internal dialogue you have perhaps subvocally with yourself throughout the day. Sometimes the voice in your head can be condemning. Often it’s very critical. Unfortunately it’s often very critical of yourself. And when your self talk is sufficiently critical [...]
Here’s an email I just sent to my son, Jeff. I ultimately addressed it to both Jeff and Mike, but once I had written it, I wanted to share it with any of the rest of you who might care to read it. Jeff, You said this, “I apologize for my lack of contact as [...]
On October 18, 2007, the newest distribution of Ubuntu (Version 7.10, code named “Gutsy Gibbon”) was released, and I downloaded the ubuntu-7.10-desktop-i386.iso image and, after checking the MD5 checksum, burned it to CD. I was able to use this Live CD to boot into the new version and install it on the Dell 4100 system [...]
If you are like me, you have a few friends who rely on you to help them out occasionally with using their computer. I often find myself talking with these folks by Skype both because it saves money and/or minutes on the calls and because I enjoy being hands free when I’m talking with them. [...]
In this short video, I demonstrate a few of the shortcut keys I use in reading RSS feeds in Google Reader. I’ve taken the video showing the entire screen, so trying to read detail will be difficult, but having you see the detail clearly wasn’t my purpose in recording it. The idea was to show [...]