WOW It’s crazy how time flies!

In my day to day work I come across some pretty amazing technology and Internet solutions. Even more amazing, many of the solutions are free or very cheap. It’s crazy how technology can help our lives in so many ways yet many are dazed and confused! My goal is to share our experiences to help YOU better understand the technologies, products and services.

So, I’ve relaunched my blog to write about the solutions I’ve already implemented and use every day. Other solutions we’ve implemented for our team or our clients and all of them can help YOU!

Here’s a few items coming to the blog soon:

• PC or Mac? I’ve made the switch from PC to Mac and it’s been a great experience
• DropBox: Store files online like another C drive in the cloud, we no longer manage servers as we store our documents online in the cloud and it’s free!
• Free phone calls: I’m using my mobile phone less and less and making free calls anywhere in the US via my PC and either Skype/Google Voice.
• Family Calendars: Each of us (kids and parents) have their own calendar for upcoming events and we can look at them all together for family planning!
• Mobile Phones/computing: Computers and laptops are being replaced with “Smart Phones” to access the Internet.
• Evernote: wish you had a place to store your notes/ideas, web pages you visit, voice notes, photos you take with your phone?

So stay tuned and watch your email. My goal is once or twice a week to give you an overview on a product or service, many of them free, and how they can make your life easier.

If there’s something you’re dying to hear about let me know and make a comment below. Odds are we may have already experienced it and we can share our opinions.

 

We put together this video for a few clients who are moving away from Outlook to Gmail. You can purchase full Google Apps and have Google host your email OR you can use a free Gmail account to retrieve your POP3 and and send via POP3.

Click here to view the embedded video.

Any questions or comments please let us know!

 

This video is a short but detailed overview of the power of WordPress. It’s hard to summarize in such a short time frame but this will help any novice who may not know a lot about WordPress… maybe surprise some who have been around WordPress.org for some time!

Click here to view the embedded video.

 

Here’s a video we developed to outline the importance of connecting your WordPress website with your social networking sites. WordPress can become your central hub or aggregator for the social networks

Click here to view the embedded video.

 

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3 is here!

Adobe® Photoshop® Lightroom® 3 software helps you bring out the best in your photography, whether you’re perfecting one image, searching for ten, processing hundreds, or organizing thousands. Create incredible images that move your audience. Experiment fearlessly with state-of-the-art nondestructive editing tools, including world-class noise reduction. Easily manage all your images. And showcase your work in elegant print layouts, slide show videos with music, and on popular photo-sharing sites. All from within one fast, intuitive application.

 

The iPad is really starting to get around — not only is it in the car, but now it’s also embedded in a kitchen cabinet.

Alan Daly custom mounted the “magical” Apple device inside his kitchen cabinet.

The headphone jack funnels sound into a MIDI system for audio output duties, and apps like the Epicurious Recipes & Shopping List App turn Daly’s kitchen cabinet into a modern day bottomless recipe book. Daly plans to use the Apple Remote App to tap into the home’s main music library once Apple updates it to support landscape mode.

Check out the video of the installation below and let us know what you think. Are you be interested in an iPad kitchen centerpiece? Where will we see Apple’s tablet pop up next?

 

Lynda.com offers amazing online training and over 700 classes and topics.

Learn Photoshop, Office, Lightroom and more!

Now you can try it free for 24hrs. Get some sleep and click the link below to get started!

Free 24 hour pass to lynda.com.

 

Class registration deadline is Thursday March 25th so don’t delay!

A friend of mine in California has been training people on how to build amazing websites for many years. It doesn’t matter if you are a rookie or have some background in graphics or web design, Christina takes you through the basics to advanced a little at a time over 10 weeks! Plus you get a demo website to mess around with.

She only offers her class in spring and fall and the deadline to register is this Thursday, March 25th.

This  is an online class but instructor led and recorded if you cannot make a weekly class. There are handout materials and guides and a demo website for you to test and practice. There are 8 modules to the course and a couple bonus weeks so the entire training takes place a couple hours a week over 10 weeks.

Christina has a conference call on Wednesday you can listen to by phone or computer. The details and more descriptions are here:

*******  Teleseminar Info *******
Date: Wednesday March 24th
Time: 4:00pm Eastern/ 3:00pm Central/ 1:00pm Pacific
Duration: 60-70 minutes
Registration Details:

http://cyberinnovation.com/websiteworkshop_preview

Note you can listen on your computer, or the phone
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Join Adobe for the exclusive Global Online Launch Event, Monday, April 12, 2010

 

Seems a bit surreal but this weekend I disconnected our home telephone handsets. Recently we canceled service or disconnected our home phone number….. who would have predicted that? We’ve had this phone number for over 20 years.

I remember not long ago the long distance telephone price wars. Our monthly phone bills would range from $50-100 and the “Friends and Family” rate per minute was lower than other options.

Then we started getting free nationwide long distance with our mobile phones and now everyone in our family has a mobile phone! Now we pay 2-3 times what we used to pay but the phones are now personal to the individual.

Remember the days of calling a house to ask if someone was there. Or leaving a message hoping they’d get it and call back. Remember talking or hanging on the phone with a friend in school and really saying nothing but to hear your parents or siblings tell you to get off the phone! It was so cool when my parents got call waiting so you could talk on the phone and answer if someone else called!

Oh and remember the answering machine so people could leave a message when you were gone! Remember a family member erasing your message and not writing it down It was frustrating at the time but another memory of the past as we all have our own personal answering machine today and if you delete your own message it’s no one’s fault but your own!

In the past phones were for the family and connected to the household, today they are connected to the person and I’ll tell my grand kids about this someday. Heck I’m going to box up home phones and bring them out in another 10-20 years and share this story.