Renaissance 2.0
I find Ayn Rand so fascinating! Her philosophies and writing have captivated countless people and will continue to do so forever. Here’s an intriguing interview of Ayn Rand by Mike Wallace (from 60 minutes fame) some 50 years ago in 1959! She and her writing are timeless. Here’s Ayn with Tom Snyder almost 20…
Here are some memorable TV themes. Even if the shows weren’t that great, their theme is still recognized by many people. I don’t know if they still put as much effort into creating catchy TV theme songs but they sure did back in the day.
I want to start by saying that I am not another big Apple Mac geek lover and fanboy of Steve Jobs. I’ve never owned a Mac and don’t plan to anytime soon. I only recently succumbed to the Apple brainwashing marketing machine and got an iPhone which I love but I still have many gripes…
imVocal is a unique service that lets you assign a phone number to your online instant messaging account (GTalk, Yahoo, MSN, AIM, etc.). This allows your friends, family or anyone to call you from regular phones and talk to you on your computer or leave voicemail that you can check whenever you can. There are…
Google continues to improve Gmail with new tweaks and features. The recent themes addition didn’t seem like a big deal to me because after all it’s just a cosmetic enhancement, right? Wrongo! By simply playing with the themes I stumbled across a benefit that I didn’t expect at all. It suddently made everything seem clearer…
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The current trend for web startups seems to be either the “everything but the kitchen sink” or the “aggregation or bust” approach. Sites either try to be your everything (and fail) or they try to manage and aggregate all of your data from other sites (and fail). So many startups have lofty ambitions and delusions…
Yammer just launched and the best way to describe it is like this: It’s yet another twitter clone but with a twist. It’s your own private twitter service for your company, organization or family. The key is that everyone’s email address must have the same domain. For example, John@Company.com can join the same yammer network…
Much to my surprise, Google Chrome is actually an excellent browser! I’ll admit that I did not want to like this browser because I only recently fell in love with Firefox thanks to its excellent 3.0 release. I even have a love-hate relationship with Flock for crying out loud. I’ve been totally heartbroken by Microsoft’s…
I got tagged again. This time by Daniele Rossi whom I thought was a friend and paisan! Hmph. Just kidding. I don’t mind. It doesn’t seem to require as much work or input as some others so why not? So, here goes nothing. Six random things about Pai? 1. Even though I’m a big computer…
In my latest piece for Mashable, “20+ Tools to Make Any Email Inbox More Social”, I shared ways you can enhance your email experience whether it’s Outlook, GMail, Thunderbird or Apple Mail. Some of the tools were covered in one of my posts about Outlook but most of them were new which made writing it…