Here are some interesting posts from around the ‘Net to catch up with over the weekend: Execupundit: “Taking on Too Much: 7 Causes” Elance Blog: “10 Things To Consider Before Quitting Your Job To Freelance Full-Time” Write to Done: “How to Stop Digital Fiddling and Start… Read More »
Archive for June 2009
A hand-picked selection of the latest releases for iPhone? Plus, a handy summary of Apple news from the past seven days? We’ve got it all, you lucky person, you. Despite the deluge of announcements at last week’s WWDC, we’ve had no time to rest this week, either.… Read More »
Ever since Netscape started storing cookies in its browsers, there has been a Jekyll-and-Hyde nature to the web. The Jekyll web promised a more personalized experience, with sites serving ads for products and services that you would actually be interested in — ads that are more… Read More »
The cloud promises to change the way businesses, governments and consumers access, use and move data. For many organizations, a big selling point in cloud infrastructure services is migrating massive data sets to relieve internal storage requirements, leverage vast computing power, reduce or contain their… Read More »
My 13-inch MacBook has been a great workhorse for me with one recurring problem — the Apple Bluetooth Mighty Mouse would lose its connection every so often. Not a major problem, but annoying for sure. The solution has been to manually disconnect the mouse once… Read More »
It seems so alluring — you, your computer, your home office, and all the silence/Bach/Led Zeppelin you can handle. This is the home office ideal, right? Right. But what happens when you put someone else in the picture? What if, right next to the potted palm in… Read More »
Android so far is only on a few phones, but some want to put the Google OS on bigger devices. Yet just as analysts are starting to believe in the suitability of Android to run netbooks, chipmaker Nvidia is backing off the OS for the newly… Read More »
The war on piracy can be a scary thing, especially if you’re a creative caught between the front lines. Hollywood would love to rid the world of file-sharing. Your audience, on the other hand, seems to consist mostly of pirates that download movies for free, watch… Read More »
We’d like to say thanks to this month’s jkOnTheRun sponsors. Fuze Meeting: HD Meetings – From Fuze Meeting Best in Cell Phones: The Best Cell Phone Deals are Here! Read More »
A lot of things make Twitter special. The 140-character restriction makes the writing more potent, because people are forced to get to the point instead of rambling on. Anyone can search for things that are happening “right now,” as opposed to waiting hours (if not days)… Read More »
Like some of you, I’m quite the “Apple purist.” I’m not a fan of fancy cases that junk up my Macs. I don’t like skins for my iPods and those plastic snap cases for my laptop. We all know that Apple designs beautiful products, so we… Read More »