When I was looking at the next “Monday Motivations for MacStartups” I was looking for another company to profile, but then I saw this blog site and thought, “You know, we’re all motivated by our spaces and how we set up our work and living spaces and the way we set them up tells us how we like to live and work.” If we can’t personalize, we become homogenized, and Macs are not about homogenization at all!!
So, we Mac fan boys and girls love working with our Macs, but have you ever thought of how your Mac looks in your office compared with others? Here’s 60 pictures of other Mac fans and their set ups.
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What every startup entrepreneur thinks about is how to increase their income, but have you thought about sharing your skills, and getting paid for it? For instance, if you learn how to program in HTML, you could teach someone else to do the same. If you found a great fishing hole to catch some of the biggest fish, could you not be a fishing guide and get paid for it? How about learning to eat healthier, or learn to make a movie. There are tons of skills that people want to learn and are willing to pay for, even if it’s for an hour.
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Any startup entrepreneur runs across periods of time where they can get some things done while waiting or they’re on the road. Texting can take a lot of time and sometimes the “fat finger” issue with typing makes matters worse. My wife is a realtor and she’s on the road a lot and “has time” and would like to answer her email on the road, but can’t text or type. Well, here’s a way around that: iPhone Voice Memo.
Wherever you are “on the road” in your car, at your local car mechanic getting your car worked on, or picking up your kids from school or the daycare center, you can use the Voice Memo app to record your thoughts for later retrieval and sharing with your customers, vendors, family members, or other contacts.
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Since every Mac user follow the main Mac site, there are blogs that offer more reviews and commentary that most web sites do not.
When you visit Technorati’s Top 100 blogs you see a great many sites that are devoted to events and technology, but not many that are niched toward the Mac, so here are the best Mac blogs to follow according to Technorati.com, in top down order:
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AppleInside reports “Apple retail plans, sources point to Mac OS X Lion launch next week” and Macbook Air updates next week. If this is the case, bone up on what you need to tackle with any updates to your Mac hardware with MacWorld’s Get your Mac ready for Lion article. Preparation is key to keeping any technical issues to a minimum.
If you need to, check out MacTracker software that lists all Macs every made and their specs.
Me, I’m curious to see what will become of iWork.
If you have an online business which hosts your eCommerce, or even backs up your data, such as Apple’s iCloud service due out later this fall, you just might get collateral damage if the government comes looking for illegal activity.
The same business disaster can occur if it is an act of God, such as a tornado, hurricane, or a flood. What most people may not realize is that there are two costs to these type of acts:
- The cost of disrupting your business, i.e. the loss of income
- The cost of replacing and restarting your business, i.e. the cost to replace what is lost and to get back up running again.
This comes in two forms of collateral damage.
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As a startup entrepreneur you can sit at home or be a mompreneur or dadpreneur if the case requires it, but how does one get the job done or keep their business running in a secure or private manner.
Conferencing. Webinars.
But it’s just not for home or virtual offices any more, it’s also for coworking (see my previous blog). Conferencing, whether video/audio/web, is becoming big business. Whereas communicating has gone from phones to email, we’ve also added IM (Instant Messaging) and social media and now conferencing to the mix.
Conferencing is just another step into breaking down the barriers to communicate. And for the startup entrepreneur it can have its place in many of the tools to communicate with both your customers, vendors, and colleagues, and on a less extent, families and friends living in other states or abroad.
Why have a online conference and what does it entail, what can you do?
- Time – the time needed to get together all at the same time, especially across time zones.
- Distance – the time it takes to get to the location can be time consuming, and everyone at the same time.
- Recorded/Not Recorded – recording the conference using a video camera and audio recorder takes multiple gadgets and inputs to complete the conference session.
- Audio/Video/White Board – recording the sessions notes is usually handled by a presentation software such as iWork Keynote or MS Office Powerpoint. However, if you write something down, you need to take those notes down for further distribution to attendees.
- Remote sharing or computer access – you can chat and record the conversation, but you can also share files or remotely control another computer.
How is it done?
- Yourself – with a MobileMe, Yahoo, ICQ, ooVoo, or other chat service account.
- Hosted Services by a business or your own company servers – Some of the hosted services below you can use for free, pay a fee for, or your can host your own by using Mac OS X Server Snow Leopard. Here is standard and HD quality for the video conferencing.
- Others – you need an audience of more than yourself.
- Hardware and software to communicate.
Here are a list of some of them. Some offer free services, others cost, do your due diligence to see if one is right for you.
- iChat (free on a Mac) + MobileMe – while MobileMe provides a number of online services, it’s chatting quality is great. But you need both Macs to have an account. Cost is $99 a year for each Mac.
- Skype.com – requires nothing more than loading the software and having an account. If you want to record it, you’ll need additional hardware or software.
- ViVu.tv – host video conferencing and webcasting.
- GoToMeeting.com – meetings, webinars, and training.
- WebEx.com – similar to the above.
- ooVoo.com – chat from mobile to mobile, mobile to computer, and Mac to PC, pay per use or by month, three way chatting is always free.
