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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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Vlog – How To Be More Successful Than Microsoft (hint: Make it easy for people to give you money.)

November 30, 2009

Our Black Friday Sale Ends December 1 at Midnight! There’s still time to get in on the love, and have us solve your technology problems! Get 20% off all of our technology coaching packages. Today’s Vlog is brought to you by two crappy buying experiences I had over this holiday weekend: Summary For The Video [...]

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Every Problem Is Solvable

October 14, 2009

Society programs us to experience some kinds of problems as unsolvable or to be expected. Don’t like your corporate job? Well, join the club – everybody hates their boss. Unhappy in your marriage? Well, that’s life – everybody’s got wife trouble. Blue screen of death plaguing your computer? Well, suck it up, buddy – that’s [...]

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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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Brother-in-Law Syndrome: or, Why Your Technology Sucks

September 30, 2009

One of the things that irks me most about a lot of the technology systems I’ve seen or heard about is just how badly set up they are. I call this the “brother-in-law syndrome.” brother-in-law syndrome – n. – The belief that because your brother-in-law/husband/friend “knows a lot about technology,” he/she is qualified to set [...]

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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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