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Organizing Your Files

I have 13,102 Word, Excel, PowerPoint, text, etc files at the time I’m writing this.

Fortunately I have a system for keeping them organized.

I know people who would have them all in their My Documents folder, or worse on their Desktop. Imagine scrolling through 10,000+ files in a file open dialog! Read more »

Give One, Get One

I have been fascinated by the work Nicholas Negroponte has done using computers in education ever since I got involved with putting PC's in classrooms at our kids elementary school (to date the project we were installing 8088 based PC's running DOS).  His book Being Digital is the first book I read that foretold the implications of bits versus atoms, in many ways predicting the role of the Internet in our lives. Read more »

Email Overload?

Suffering from email overload? Join the club. Read more »

Promoting Your Product by Giving It Away on Blogs

I have finally started to understand how Social Media can be used by non-technology manufacturers who sell business to business.

Part of that understanding is realizing that 75% of all traditional journalists get story ideas from reading blogs.  And blogs are a great way to increase your exposure at the consumer level.  If people are asking for your product, retailers will want to carry it. Read more »

Netbook Size

As I mentioned, a lot of people comment about my Acer Aspire One netbook.

I thought I'd show what they are looking at relative to my "home" notebook: Read more »

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