Social Media As Exercise

Social media is not going away. It is maturing though. People are jumping in tweeting, using LinkedIn and being a little moreĀ cautiousĀ on what they share on Facebook. TV commercials and programs are displaying hashtags to encourage Twitter discussions about the show or products. We have moved beyond the “early-adopter” phase and into the mainstream. But [...]

Setup Mail Rules to Send “Out Of Office” Backscatter to The Trash (UPDATED)

If you are on a number of maillist lists, you feel my pain. When you want to contribute to a listserv but are tired on receiving all the junk email associated with various people’s auto-responders for vacation or out of office, you can just go forward and delete all the mail you get telling you [...]

Lenovo Thinkpad X130e First Impressions and Review

I was able to get my hands on a loaner unit from Lenovo via CDWG this week. This is the unit from Lenovo that they are specifically marketing to the education sector. I was eager to play around with it and see it firsthand prior to making an investment in them for student laptop carts. [...]

Apple’s Future Plans? Look To Wall-E

It has become very clear to me that Apple’s recent actions and products follow a pattern. Steve Jobs, through his former company Pixar, put their future path out there for the entire world to see in the film Wall-E. I’m pretty sure you will agree with me after thinking about these next three remarkable coincidences.
Wall-E [...]

Liberating Video From Flash or Silverlight via Quicktime Screen Recorder

I had a recent situation where some video I need to deal with was locked into Silverlight, Flash or other website embed from the source. I am not advocating you duplicate restricted material with this method. You shouldn’t. This is just a quick guide to generate an editable movie using the default software inside Mac [...]