Archive for the 'Technology' Category

Visuwords.com is an “online graphical dictionary”. It can help you spot synonyms and choose just the right word to get your web page copy or article out of those verbal ruts you and I can so easily inhabit! Here’s the results for the word “buy”.

This is an interesting post from Jim Edwards. Businesses need to make money. But customers expect more and more free stuff. Young people today, in fact, believe there is no such thing as proprietary information… nothing (information wise) they think should have to be “paid” for. So that’s a tension… how do you deliver more [...]

I’m not trying to be rude here, but can you say “Kindle”? This really doesn’t sound any different. They’d probably be smarter just to solicit more books to publish and sell them through Kindle’s network! his is from Dane’s Blog BizJournals: A Birmingham entrepreneur’s plan to make books available via mobile phone was selected as [...]

I’ve blogged about this several other times already: One Laptop Per Child & The $100 Laptop $100 Computer Makes Progress $100 Laptop Now $188 Intel Sabotaged $100 Laptop Project Charity Head Claims As Computers Go Lean Microsoft Is Feeling The Heat and Social Entrepreneurs Take The Risks, Fat Cats Reap Rewards Well now Microsoft is [...]

I was looking for a database program I thought might be good to use. I ran across this article on a “Year without Windows” (from Linux of course!) All of our other business functions are covered with Linux. On the desktop, we use Moneydance for accounting. We use Microsoft Word under the CodeWeavers CrossOver Office, [...]

From the Agurban Institute According to Telecommunications Industry News, broadband penetration in the U.S. has grown by more than 300% in the past six years. This is according to a recent report by Scarborough Research. Approximately 49% of American adults now have a high-speed internet connection in their households, up from just 12% in 2002. [...]

For the record, I HATE hotmail. I hate the name. I hate the service. I hate the spam that comes from hotmail users. I think it’s completely unprofessional to try to do business or even conduct serious communications using a hotmail address. Did I mention that I hate hotmail? But in case you don’t, here’s [...]

Read this at BizReport. HT to Womma.org If you’re marketing through online video, you really need to be hitting the social networks like Digg, etc. Search engines provide lots of traffic, but the social networks EQUAL them! It’s a way for the small fry to compete. They’re sending 30% of the traffic to videos! Wow! [...]

I’m a “Back of the Napkin” kid of guy myself, but if you need to do 3D modeling, Google offers free downloadable SketchUp software There’s two versions, one for professionals and one for educators and schools to use. But I wonder if people could use these for their sales presentations? We  Back of the Napkin [...]

Read it all at Web Worker Daily But here are the ones I like best. For instance, I can’t get into the keyboard shortcuts at the moment.  Do I really want to remember all that extra stuff? It’s like learning a foreign language, and if I’ve got to learn one, I’d prefer one spoken by [...]