Document Conversion Online
Boulders 2 Bits provides a link to Media Convert, which has a huge selection of document conversions you can perform online. I haven’t worked with it yet, but it’s definitely in my bookmarks.
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Twiangulate for Twitter
Those who look for relevant people to follow should love the new tool Twiangulate. It allows you to enter two or three people of interest to you, and get a list of people that they all follow. It’s a fairly simply concept but it can produce some interesting results. For example, just as a test…
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Ricoh MP W2400 with Windows Vista
One of my clients uses this wide format printer. After switching to Vista on his work station he had intermittent problems printing. The print job would do everything normally, but simply would not print or show up in the queue, and no error was generated. We still had a Windows XP machine on the same…
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Linkedin and Twitter Get Together
You can no cross-post updates.
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Grocery Shopping Again
A while back I wrote a post on how to save when shopping for groceries (Grocery Shopping 101). Yesterday I encountered another example of one of the things I mentioned. Grocery placement on the shelves is not for your convenience. It’s intended to get you to buy things that make the grocery store more profit….
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Cars Driving Themselves
According to this MSNBC.com article, we could be seeing them over the next few years. The development is basically evolutionary, as driver aids are incorporated into more and more cars. The reason this story caught my eye was that a friend of mine and I approached one of the manufacturer’s representatives at a computer show…
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WordPress as a Content Management System
Over the last few months I have begun using WordPress as a content management system (CMS) on a number of sites for my publishing venture, Energion Publications. The reason for this is simple. It’s a good idea from the marketing perspective to have a site to promote each book, but these book sites are small…
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Thunderbird 3 Beta 4 – You May Want to Take a Look
This isn’t the thing for me, as I use Evolution e-mail under Linux, but some of my clients use Thunderbird or are considering a new client. It looks like the new Thunderbird may be worth a serious look. See Thunderbird Ups the Email Ante from Linux Magazine.
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Advertising Not Working?
As a small businessman with a limited (!) advertising budget, I found this article in Business Week quite helpful. I had already discovered #6: You like it. O.K., this one may sting a bit, but you are not the best judge of your own advertising. I would note that it’s an easier problem to recognize…
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Next Linux Kernel to be Faster
… on low memory machines. (HT: Greg Laden). Now maybe I won’t have to buy a new computer!