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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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Yoga mat or Laptop of the future?

March 5, 2010

A friend showed me this video today and the first thought that popped to mind was Yoga Mat. Then I watched it and was suitably impressed. WANT!

Tagged as: cool, Design, Laptop, Lifestyle Technology, mockup, OLED, Technology, Video

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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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How to easily edit home video with free software from Microsoft

February 26, 2010

Back in the day I used to be a news videotape editor. This was before cameras were digital — think back to the days of VCRs, Beta and VHS. Yep, that was the media of the day to record music and video. That was called Analog.
The reason I bring that up is because editing on […]

Tagged as: Dogs, Edit, Heloise, Lifestyle Technology, Microsoft, Movie Maker, Selena, software, YouTube

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Did the Monkey steal the crown?

February 9, 2010

Last year I delcared Songbird, the multi-platform media player and organizer the Best Music Player Ever. Now, there’s a challenger for the title, at least in the Windows / PC arena; MediaMonkey. …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, Lifestyle Technology, Music, Player, software, Windows

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A pound of eBooks

February 8, 2010

Over the weekend some comments raised good points about longevity of media. It was on a post about Microsoft planning to shut down Xbox Live for the original Xbox gaming console. This got me thinking that I’d kinda heard these arguments before. Perhaps applied to different systems, maybe even to different technology, but they weren’t […]

Tagged as: eBooks, Lifestyle Technology, obsolete, Property, rights, Technology, xbox

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