I’ve had some time to play with a TouchPad and I felt I should review it. I’ve been iffy about the idea of owning a tablet. iPads looked nice, but never made me want one. The bulk of what made me want a TouchPad was out of necessity for development. Having said that, this thing is quite…
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First Week with RockMelt Social Browser
There are a lot of different ways that you can experience the social web, but I’ve got to say (and I’m sure you’ll agree), most of them don’t really work like we’d want them to. In the last year I’ve tried dozens of services and software, changed my perspective and approach to different tools, dropped email, facebook, twitter and others more than once to see if it would simplify my life and have read hundreds of articles to learn from the experiences of others.
I know what the solution for me would be… I just haven’t found a service or piece of software that provides that solution.
Earlier last week, though, I downloaded Chromium based RockMelt, the Social Browser and so far it has been an enlightening experience, to say the least. Thanks to Joomla Adicto I was able to get into the invite-only beta (I have three left, by the way *cough*), and while I haven’t made up my mind yet whether this is what I’ve been looking for in the last year, it does seem to come pretty close.
I’m gonna give it a few more weeks of exclusive use at work and home, and I’ll write the full review for you when I’ve made my decision. So far, I like it… a lot. But I don’t want to jinx anything or give approval before I get a full understanding of the browser.
Have you used a Social Browser like RockMelt or Flock before? Leave your experience in the comments.
I have a small gig I’d like to hire someone for to get this website running optimally. It’s paid, but it involves quick turn-around, managing DNS, MX Records, sub-domains, email addresses, etc….
I know exactly what I want, and could do it all myself, but I don’t have the time. So I’d rather just pay someone else to do it. Shouldn’t take more than a couple of hours to do.
Leave me a comment below to get in touch or send me an email (if you have it) and we’ll discuss the details and a price.
Who’s up for it?
I have been writing for my whole life and blogging from the day I got a computer. This website, anotherguy.us, has been available for public visitations since June 6th of 2007 (three years ago), and I enjoy the fact that I am still using it today.
Even though I’ve been using the same domain for so long, though, I haven’t been using the same web service to publish my articles. Today marks a great milestone for Tumblr, as I hit the 100th post from this account.
Compared to others that have been blogging for a few years longer than me (and who’ve kept all of the articles from previous years) 100 is not much. And of course, I’ve written far more than just 100 articles that you see here. But that number is a big encouragement to look at when I open the Tumblr dashboard, and I want to see it grow.
I’d like to think that each day was given to us so that we can become better at something.
May today make me a better writer, so that tomorrow I am a better man.
Thanks for sticking around. I hope the next 100 are much better.
It’s time to get moving again. Haven’t updated things here in a while, but after this great weekend I feel refreshed.
Follow the brick road and don’t stop, no matter what color it is. As long as you know you’re going in the right direction, don’t stop. If you don’t know what the right direction is, don’t worry - you’ll figure it out soon if you really want to.
“The fact is, though, no matter how you look at it, unless Klout updates this aspect of their algorithm, in another 80 days Bot 1 could very well have the same Klout Score as @scobleizer!
“Taking into account that many Twitter clients (like Hootsuite) and filter applications (like Datasift) are using Klout as a trusted way of filtering tweets, it means Klout will have to up their game on this one to stay in the game.
“Or else, we might just be run by machines sooner than we think!”
My home office has changed drastically today, as you can see from this photo (taken on my Palm Pre Plus). I’ve done away with my desk entirely, and shifted to a layout that provides optimal productivity.
Here’s why I made the changes:
The Problem
Before today coming home consisted of me first sitting at my desk positioned in the very middle of the room, then fighting to plug in my charger for my phone into the extension cord, throwing stuff around my desk to find business cards, notebooks, software disks or my keys and finally sitting back in disqust at the fact that I could not reach my books to do some leisure reading without moving the small table sitting nearby.
The desk was simply too big, and didn’t provide enough value at the expense of office space.
The laptop was also faced in one direction when used to work, and turned around (through an annoying process) when used to entertain.
My conclusion: It was time to make some changes to increase productivity, ease the ability to entertain, optimize relaxability and force me to rely more heavily on my Palm Pre to get work done in the cloud (as opposed to on the laptop which I generally forget to backup to my device, losing important data and files).
The Solution
I cut the desk completely and moved it into the garage. I replaced it with a tall bookshelf with a tall middle shelf where I placed my gadgets and laptop. Since it’s back against the wall, I have more space in the room for other activities, and since it provides easily accessible shelf-space I have immediate access to all of my books, discs and toys.
The shelf that the laptop sits on is slightly elevated above a typical desk, allowing my neck to take less tension from looking down at the screen. Three small nails are placed strategically on the outer edge of the shelf to help keep the wires in order. My Palm Touchstone sits on the right of the laptop to keep my phone close to me at all times.
For entertainment purposes I no longer have to shift the laptop or speakers around to face the people watching. Everything just works out better. I don’t need a desk, I just need a place to put my laptops and books. Solution = Win.
The Future
This is all just a start to what I eventually would like to do in the next month. For $600 I could get a Mac Mini, a small wireless keyboard and a nice big monitor and accomplish the same thing but give me a better monitor and allow me to type without sitting right up in the book shelf (which looks weird to visitors). For now, though, this works pretty well.
Any Tips?
Some of you are a lot better at this desk-hacking thing than I am. What would you suggest?
— Sent from my Palm Pre
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