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Great Social networks to check out

April 15, 2008

Well guess what? Facebook is what it is and probably will stay what they are for more and more people: a place for friends to cast their net a little wider with each other and stay in looser contact with more people. Myspace was just a free-for-all that got too big too fast (plus it’s [...]

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Apple is gaining market share!

April 2, 2008

Apple’s U.S. sales skyrocket in February | The Apple Core | ZDNet.com http://blogs.zdnet.com/Apple/?p=1436

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Printing to PDF

March 2, 2008

One of my favorite tips to impart on my clients is how to print to PDF and save things like web receipts to their hard drive for later (if ever) printing. It’s an easy and quick way to make your life easier and save paper… you just click File > Print > PDF > Save [...]

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children on the internet! OMG! beware?

February 28, 2008

For those of you who are parents of young children or highly interested in their well being because you watch too much Nightline…. you should read this article.  This is my favorite tech columnist’s take of safety concerns for children online… which is not as scary as you might think. How Dangerous Is the Internet [...]

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Do you watch fake HD?

February 27, 2008

George Ou is an honorary digital life coach. He’s a little technical for most users, but what he’s saying is valuable and important to know: The HD that you get from Cable, Satellite and download services is not nearly as good as Bluray offers. In fact, a lot of what companies try to pass of [...]

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Seth’s Blog: A shortage of digital coaches

January 21, 2008

Seth writes a great blog about business that I respect and read pretty often. Recently he did a post about me: A Digital Life Coach! He calls it simply Digital Coaching, but I prefer to include the importance of one’s life in the phrase because more and more our lives are integrated with digital things [...]

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Apple customers VERY satisfied

January 21, 2008

To confirm something I’ve always kinda known and make it more dramatic of late, check out this article: four-in-five Apple buyers (81 percent) said they were Very Satisfied with Leopard, which is “an exceptionally high rating” for a new operating system. This compares to 53 percent and 51 percent for Windows XP, and just 27 percent and [...]

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The truth about bad companies…

December 21, 2007

Sometimes bad companies can get away with harming customers for a long time without getting caught. Businesses that rely on one-off relationships especially. It's extremely stupid to burn a bridge with anyone when you're in my business because it's so repeat and referral driven. However, business models like spa promotions can thrive for quite a [...]

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the “Digital Life” we lead

November 16, 2007

 I’m starting a new theme for some posts on this maccog blog.  You may have noticed that we call ourselves “Digital Life Coaches”… well it may seem dippy and futuristic, but it is here. Your digital life is here, even if you don’t have a computer.  Your car, your bank, your stereo, your TV, your [...]

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Net Neutrality and the Soviet Ministries

November 15, 2007

http://mossblog.allthingsd.com/20071021/free-my-phone/ Thank you, Walt Mossberg, for eloquently stating the problems with the US cellphone market… and illustrating the problem with making my iPhone free and open!

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