”Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, totally worn out and proclaiming, ‘WOW, WHAT A RIDE!!!”
Where the Negro has met with discriminations and with difficulties because of his race, he has invariably tended to get up more steam. When this steam has been rightly directed and controlled, it has become a great force in the upbuilding of the race. If, on the contrary, it merely spent itself in fruitless agitation and hot air, no good has come of it. Booker T. Washington
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I’ve done a guest blog post about writing tools for Macs, so take a look at my article Writing, Publishing And Book Marketing Tools For The Mac Lover.
Let me know what you think.
When it comes to entrepreneurship, the most common comment from teachers is to finish school. Well, if you want to be a lawyer, doctor, or an engineer, they might be right. But finishing school or getting a diploma should not stop you from learning.
Here’s an article Multimillionaires Without High School Diplomas at Forbes.com who list of 25 individuals who never finished high school, but also never stopped learning and became multimillionaires.
So no matter who you are, go find what you love to do that you have an innate talent for and go do that. If you don’t know, try something and if you don’t like it, try something else.
If you don’t think it can happen today, take a look at this article Game Written by a 14-Year-Old Passes Angry Birds as Top Free iPhone App and tell me it can’t happen, just read about Robert Nay, a 14-year-old from Spanish Fork, Utah.
Ok, Apple has changed things with how their systems works at getting new applications. Here are my thoughts:
- Installing App Store: I went through the “Software Update” menu and the software was installed.
- Accessing the App store: There are two ways of getting to the app store, through the Apple menu just below the “Software Update” and the app store icon next to the Finder icon. I’ll delete the app store icon, don’t want to take up valuable app screen real estate. I have my dock to the left, gives me more room on the bottom of the screen.
- Version tracking 1: First, I own iWork ’09 and the app store shows that it is installed. Bad part, I was expecting a new version. It’s been two years and this current version is getting long in the tooth.
- Version tracking 2: I own Pixelmator and in the About menu it shows 1.6.2 and when I go to the App store it shows version 1.6.4. Is this an upgrade? The app store that it’s a bug fix. The company that owns this app indicates that it’s an Apple thing, i.e. they want to, but can’t.
- Installed apps: I have installed Money3 to evaluate it for my finance program and dumping Quicken 2007 for the Mac. The app store shows that it is installed on my desktop (that’s where my temp stuff resides for the moment). It does NOT show Pixelmator installed on my Mac and I own it. Hmm.
- Top Apps: There are three basic categories of apps, Top Grossing, Top Free, and Top Paid. I don’t care for any of these Top ratings, I want to know which ones are Top Rated!! Add in an ascending and descending for cost and and ratings and you’ve got a better idea. The problem with the three initial Top categories is that they are not a true indication of the quality of the application. Maybe there should be a Top Demo listing added.
- No Demo App: There is not indication if an app is a demo app or not. If I am not able to evaluate the four to five financial apps for my business via a demo versions it makes the app store worthless at the moment. I’ll visit the vendor’s web site from now on until this feature is implemented. Where the “Buy” drop down button should be should have a “Demo” version of the software.
- Staff Favorites: I like this, gives me some idea as to what Apple folks are thinking.
- Purchases: I purchased the free app TextWrangler (updated from version 3.1 to 3.5) from Bare Bones and the first time it requires your password from your AppleID. Then the “Buy” button changes to “Installing” in the app store and a dimmed out icon shows up in your dock. Mousing over the icon gives a status of “Downloading” but no progress bar anywhere. Once it has downloaded it bounces to show that it’s done. Visiting third party Mac software web site and clicking on an iTunes story link does a quirky windowing thing moving from iTunes to the App store window. Buggy from my perspective. And will all future Mac software ONLY be able to go through the Mac App Store? Remains to be seen, but I’m guessing this will be the trend.
- My Ratings of the App Store: Meh. Too many things connected and intertwined and too few options.
There you have my thoughts. Do you have any?
Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.
Ok, so I went over 10, there’s always the hangers on that need to show their stuff. Which Mac Cool Tools do you use?
You can go longer than 10, but keep it close to 10.
Mine, and in no particular order:
- Safari
- Mail
- iWork (Pages, Numbers, Keynote)
- iTunes
- iLife (iPhoto, iMovie, GarageBand, iDVD, don’t like iWeb)
- iCal
- Address Book
- Quicken (but considering others for next year)
- Pixelmator
- Dropbox
- Mozy
- TweetDeck
- Lineform
So what do you do and what do you use?
