Doing

Getting a handle on influence and online content creation

March 17, 2010

As you may be aware, especially if you’ve been blasted by my twitter stream recently, I’m helping some friends out with the Empire Avenue beta. I’ve written before about Social Media and the Power of Influence, but today I’m going to talk about a few things I’ve learned over the last few weeks.
A […]

Tagged as: Blogging, Communications, Empire Avenue, Lifestyle Technology, People's Market, Social Media, Stock Market, Technology

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Where’s Waldo?

March 15, 2010

This week I started using Gowalla — a check-in application/game for mobile devices similar to Foursquare, which means nothing if you’ve not used FourSquare either…so let me explain. …more

This post is an excerpt from one of my weekly posts on the Future Shop Techblog. Check out the full post here.

Tagged as: Entertainment, Games, GPS, Location, News, Social Media

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Spring’s on its way. Backup now — before you’re too busy.

March 12, 2010

I’ve written a lot about backing up your data over the years. But even though backups are important, somehow they’re always 2^nd or 3^rd on the priority list. ‘Something to do when I get time’. And as Spring approaches, time is one thing that there’s going to be less of as priorities shift from inside […]

Tagged as: 13th, Backup, Backups, ClickFree, contest, Data, hardware, Murphy, process, safety, software, Spring, Time, Transformer

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The view out my window

March 8, 2010

Daily I work in a cube, except for today. As you can see, I’m in my ‘away’ office, yet still connected.

And yes, I am working. Through the wonders of technology, I’m cranking out the copy, sending the email, editing the text and photos.
This is Lifestyle Technology at work. Wifi enables me to be mobile / […]

Tagged as: Image, online, Photography, Travel, Working

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Write a comment, win a prize!

March 1, 2010

I’ve been a fan of Clickfree backup systems for a while now. Dropdead simple and effective for most home usage. Well now the kind folks at Clickfree have given me the opportunity to share the love, so to speak, in the form of a contest, my first, in fact.
All the gory details are here, but the […]

Tagged as: Backup, Blog Contest, ClickFree, Data Loss, Entertainment, free, Lifestyle Technology, Technology, Writing

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Upgrading from Windows 7 RC to Retail — easily!

February 28, 2010

Well, being the cutting edge kinda guy that I am, I had the Windows 7 release candidate (RC) on my system from the first day it was released. Of course, that means that I was enjoying all the Windows 7 goodness on my system, with the knowledge that I’d eventually have to upgrade to the […]

Tagged as: 7100, Microsoft, RC, Retial, Upgrading, Win7, Windows, Windows 7

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