When was the last time you read our Declaration of Independence? You might want to dust it off and see what it says.
Apr 22
If you ever don’t have enough room, how about taking this idea from Hong Kong and applying to your space. This shapeshifting apartment is the brain child of an architect.
Where there is a problem, there is a solution.
May 16
If you want to know what a company of one can do, take a look at PlentyofFish’s web site and see how he got started and where he is in his company’s growth.
Little is done by others, and he makes all of the money. Now that’s a good business to get into.
May 07
Hi all,
We have moved so our posts about Entrepreneurs using Macs have been delayed in getting out, but as of today they’ll resume on a fairly regularly. Thanks for our patience and we look forward to your comments.
Apr 29
As a Mac user there are a number of steps that you can take that will ensure that you Mac is even more secure. Read the article 15 easy fixes for Mac security risks and follow the instructions to make your Mac secure so that you can sleep at night
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Apr 10
I enjoy working with iWork, especially since iWork ’09 came out. Numbers now has over 250 built in functions that almost match MS Excel in terms of number crunching, but give it a few more years and it set the stage on fire for the SMB market.
So, I’ve found some interesting sites for helping those with using iWork for their small business.
- Numbers Templates – a small but budding site devoted to Numbers.
- iWork Community Exchange – a small iWork site helping those with various types of templates.
- Keynote Theme Park – a source of Keynote themes.
- iWork Templates Blog – another source of templates for iWork
- Excel Templates – with iWork ’09 you can convert almost all of the templates to Numbers and adapt them to the style and look and feel of Numbers.
- Jaxworks.com – Free Excel spreadsheets that you can convert to Numbers.
- Jumsoft.com – a small company that makes Pages, Keynotes, and Mail templates for purchase.
- Stocklayouts – a company that makes various templates for a number of applications. They have a few free templates that you can download after registration, but they are really good. (Updated 20090216)
- Microsoft Templates for Mac – again, you can convert the Excel files to Numbers
If you need some help and tutorials in designing your own templates via graphic design, here’s some links to some web sites that can help (updated 20090217):
The nice thing about free resources is that they are Open Source, free to use and change as you see fit. If you made some improvements, put them back out into the community to help others out. Give them to the sites that host iWork templates so others can improve what you have done.
Do you have any suggestions?
Apr 02
For those that use CRM software packages such as Daylite can now get the newest version from MarketCircle and install it if they own a current version of Daylite. What is interesting for those of us that get to know the “under the hood” aspects of software is that MarketCircle dropped the OpenBase database and discuss why they went with PostgreSQL as the database driving Daylite. All good reason from a user and developer perspectives.
Using Daylite 3.9 on a Mac is great, but if you own an iPhone or an iPod Touch you can now share the data on your Mac via 3G, Edge, and WiFi network connections or sync through your Mac. You have a choice of either syncing via iTunes for those less than “up to the minute” updates of your contact information or through Apple’s MobileMe for those “need it now” types of updates. Using the iTunes sync means that you have to connect to your Mac and “manually” sync your information.
Keep in mind that Daylite is a “server” and requires a central “server” that the database is hosted on and other Macs and iPhones and Touches access this “server” with any changes.
One of the reasons why you may want to do things manually is if you need to be careful as to the changes you make to your database. It allows you to put some thought into your changes. If you went with the MobileMe approach any mistakes will be gone and will require some effort to restore any mistakes.
Where Daylite fits is the 1-50 employees in your small company and provides an “end to end” approach to keeping your critical information up to date. Daylite is a very powerful database and allows for many ways of keeping track of your business contacts. It even has some of the GTD (Getting Things Done) methodology in it.
If you intend to use multiple users or the iPhone or Touch you’ll be required to pay $49/year/license, i.e. for each iPhone or Touch you’ll pay the $49 per year and install the Daylite Server software versus just the single license. For those that are price conscious or that do not travel much beyond their business or don’t require quick updates, you may not want to update to the $49 license update because of the costs. But for those that want the productivity and opportunity to keep things “up to the minute,” then by all means chalk it up as a sale for MarketCircle.
Mar 22
If you use a laptop and travel a lot you almost always are looking for a WiFi hotspot to check your email or do some internet search of some sort, but what if you are in a foreign location and can’t quite find a free hotspot that could help you out. Well, “wardriving” has allowed others to find hotspots as well as putting together a listing of some of the free ones that can help you either find a quiet spot to do your work or that gets you out of the crowd. Two web sites are:
- Wigle.net - a free hotspot locator that covers more than just businesses that offer free connections.
- FreeHotSpots – a listing of mostly businesses and local organizations such as libraries that have free hotspots.
Do you have a web site that you visit that can help get you connected? Share with us.
Mar 20
If you get onto the internet a lot you know about RSS readers, which are readers that access the RSS technology and display links to web pages that just shows the text rather than the whole web page. Using Apple’s Safari you can “reduce” the amount of text that you can read thus speeding up the level of seeing various articles.
The RSS feed icon looks like this;
So, there are 5 Mac OS X RSS readers for the Mac that you can review and see if one fits your needs if you don’t like Safari’s implementation of the technology.
