Web 2.0

A great new social community

December 1, 2008

Everyone knows Facebook and MySpace. Before that, some of us used Friendster and AOL chat rooms or Yahoo member boards. When we think back on how the social aspect of digital media has changed us… some of us yearn for more personal interaction. Sure, Facebook is great for keeping in touch with old friends from [...]

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A Blockbuster piece by The Onion: TV

June 28, 2008

Way back in college, I discovered the genius of The Onion when I picked up a free rag in the student union (rag = old school paper news thing). Since then, I’ve visited their website, subscribed to their podcast, and now watch their videos online like a TV show. Now I wouldn’t be surprised if [...]

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.Mac 3.0 coming soon?

June 6, 2008

oh please, let this become truth! Wired Magazine has some great points and great ideas about what Apple should do with .Mac. Hopefully, they’re listening! Mobile Me: What a New .Mac Might Mean for the iPhone | Gadget Lab from Wired.com http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2008/06/mobile-me-what.html

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GrandCentral is neato…

May 9, 2008

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Today only… free signup with a great Web 2.0 service

April 24, 2008

I’ve been using Evernote for about a month now and have been totally sold by it in the last few weeks. It’s a note taking, screenshot storing, web clip holding marvel. I use it now to take notes on my clients and a million other things. If you ever struggle with where to keep to-dos, [...]

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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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MacCog on Squidoo!

January 21, 2008

Just found a cool new site to help promote the business and get great information out there for our customers. It’s called Squidoo and here is the link… Go visit and give us a good star rating… we could use it! http://www.squidoo.com/maccog

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Gmail gets IMAP… it’s all over now folks.

December 16, 2007

preface: This post is a bit old by now, but I just discovered I’d posted it to the wrong blog on accident. So here it is… still VERY relevant, just not timely! Thank you, Google. You’ve just turned what was a really good email account into an amazing one… perhaps the holy grail of email… [...]

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Market share for browsers, operating systems and search engines

December 3, 2007

So apple is officially at 6.81% marketshare. Not sure why this particular place is the end-all authority, but these are some interesting numbers…. http://marketshare.hitslink.com/report.aspx?qprid=10 Windows XP 78.37% Windows Vista 9.19% MacIntel 3.59% Mac OS 3.22% Windows 2000 2.97% Windows 98 0.76% Windows NT 0.63% Linux 0.57% Windows ME 0.43% iPhone 0.09% Windows CE 0.06% Hiptop [...]

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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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