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MacSpeech Dictate, Humanity in Product Reviews, and Doing Your Best Work

December 7, 2009

Text Summary for the Video Impaired: Last Tuesday I made a video post that promised a “slaughter fest” review of a piece of software called MacSpeech Dictate. The software is pretty bad – but I think that promising to spend 800 words telling every particular where the software fell short (there was only one redeeming [...]

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Review: Google Wave (Public Preview edition)

November 11, 2009

Google Wave. If you’ve been living anywhere except under a rock or somewhere in a cave on the Afghan/Pakistan border (which would count as being under a rock), you’ve heard the hype. Is Google Wave really “the wave of the future” – as it’s been touted? No. Why do I say that? Let’s take a [...]

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Entrepreneur Juice. (or: How Malcolm Gladwell Gave Me My Business Back)

October 19, 2009

All work is creative work if done by a thinking mind. -Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged Blah. This week in New York has been nothing but rain. And the greyness of the days has only been matched by the greyness of my small Harlem office as I tapped away at emails and lists of ideas for [...]

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Review: IttyBiz Marketing 101

October 12, 2009

Naomi Dunford is scuzzy and disingenuous. She swears like a sailor. She gets her hand stuck in wine boxes. She has a semicolon on her back. She’s so damned real that she’s almost fake. And I’ll buy pretty much anything she tries to sell me. Ever. I’ve had about a week and a half to [...]

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5 Gmail Labs Widgets That Will Save You From Yourself

October 7, 2009

We’ve all done this stupid stuff: sent the wrong email to the wrong person, embarrassed ourselves by not attaching the thing we said we were going to attach, or stayed up way too late at night writing emails – and suffered the attendant typos (or even plain incomprehensibility) that comes with that. Fortunately, the crack [...]

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Review: Mac OSX 10.6 – Snow Leopard

August 31, 2009

As a recent Apple convert (ok, let’s face it – I got my Mac a year ago, but I still consider myself a new convert) I’m always surprised at the differences between the Mac OS and Windows. I keep on expecting things to be much harder than they actually are. Take upgrading to Snow Leopard, [...]

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