Well it came and went. No more bustling through stores trying to beat a little old lady down for that new, hot item that has limited quantities. No more listening to holiday music when you’re at the grocery store, in your car, walking through department stores, or sitting down to eat at a restaurant. It’s time to put all the holiday cheer behind us and prepare ourselves for the new year.
For the next few months, everyone will be discussing the inevitable – New Year’s resolutions (NYRs). Even as you’re reading this you’re already creating your mental checklist of NYRs. Some of the popular ones are: lose weight, drink less, exercise more, join a book club, become a popular socialite, make more friends, etc. The good news is, most of the things you want to change about yourself in 2010 can be accomplished with all sorts of technologies. Since this is a blog, and we’re not actively having this conversation, I’m going to put myself out there and share with you my NYRs for 2010. For the next week, I will be posting one NYR per day and the technologies out there that can help me achieve them. Read the rest of this entry »
When faced with the inevitable question, “What do you want for Christmas?” tech geeks typically don’t have a hard time listing out all the toys we want. The great thing about any hobby is that there’s always something new and exciting around the corner to get your heart pumping and the butterflies in your stomach flying. Technology as a hobby most certainly can be an expensive addiction, but there is always something new on the horizon (and more than likely one or two knock off brands that fit within your budget). So tech geeks – when the “What do you want for Christmas?” question is staring you in the face, what do you answer with? I’ll start with my list.
We all have a technology toolkit—our “go-to” items, software, or websites that feed our inner geek. For those that don’t believe they have an inner geek: Do you find yourself feeling claustrophobic if you don’t check Twitter 5 times a day? Do you feel naked if you accidentally leave your mobile phone at home (and does it cause you to go back and get it)? These are things that you rely on every day, and yes they feed your inner geek. Here’s a little peak into my technology toolkit and what about the tools make them my “go-to” items. 
If you have a Google Wave account (and you’re like me), you’re obsessed with the app. I’ve been looking for something that I can use to alert me when new waves come in, without having to be glued to the browser. Firefox has solved this issue for me.
Tuesday morning Waveboard (a Google Wave client) became available for iPhone. Around mid-October the Waveboard crew announced they would be submitting an iPhone app to iTunes that would run Google Wave. Since then I’ve been tracking Waveboard’s movements, hoping the app would soon become available. 
About me, hmmm, where to start. Ok, my interest in technology, internet, and website design all started when AOL first launched as an ISP. This was the beginning of the internet craze.