Annie Vranizan and I presented ’50 Apps to Fuel Your Online Business’ at the Nevada Interactive Media Summit last weekend. I’ve posted the slides here and you can find the full list of 50 apps and their links on Annie’s website. 50 Apps to Fuel Your Online Business View more presentations from Colin Loretz. Read more – ‘50 Apps to Fuel Your Online Business’.
Calendars and I are something that have never quite gotten along. I’ve tried using everything from iCal on my mac, the calendar on my iPhone, Google Calendar, Backpack Calendar, and to-do applications like Things or ToodleDo. With each system, I would eventually just resort to using a piece of paper or a notebook to track [...] Read more – ‘My Calendar Syncing Solution’.
Here is the slide deck for the presentation I gave at Ignite Reno #2 on July 16th at Amendment 21. The video will come soon! Ignite Reno: Diagnosing Technology as a Mental Disorder View more presentations from ColinLoretz. Read more – ‘Ignite Reno: Diagnosing Technology as a Mental Disorder’.
Shaving is usually something everyone hates to do. Who really enjoys scraping a piece of sharpened metal across their skin? My own experience has been less than pleasant. I’ve tried probably a dozen different brands of razors but all of them have been common safety razors with multiple blades. The razor I “enjoyed” most was the [...] Read more – ‘A better shave using a single blade safety razor’.
Did you create your resume using a Microsoft Word template? Stop right there. Really. Stop. Please. I’ve been using LinkedIn (sign up if you haven’t already!) for quite a while to keep track of my academic and professional history and while I frequently send people there to check out my qualifications, I always kept my [...] Read more – ‘LinkedIn as your living resume’.
I presented the following presentation at the first-ever Nevada Interactive Media Summit last week. My presentation consisted mostly of demonstrations in Adobe Flex Builder but if you plug the code below into Flex, you should be able to follow along. A video of the presentation should be available soon. Adobe Flex: Creating Widgets for the [...] Read more – ‘Adobe Flex: Creating Widgets for the Desktop & Web’.
I’m about to move out of my apartment and I’ve been on the hunt for where I will end up next. With work and school, I haven’t had a lot of time to drive and look around for a new place but I have been able to check out a lot of places via the [...] Read more – ‘Toolkit for House Hunting on the Web’.
David Heinemeier Hansson at Startup School 08 on The A Secret to Making Money. His presentation is to the point and reinforces the direction I’m heading while working on my own web app in the little “spare/free” time I find. Quite inspiring. Share and annotate your videos with Omnisio! Read more – ‘Secret to Making Money from Startup School 08’.
I spent a few hours going through these steps with a friend of mine, Glenn, who is starting to learn Ruby on Rails. He wanted to install MySQL so we decided to do it from source. Glenn was trying to install MySQL using Dan Benjamin’s tutorial at Hivelogic. I found the same steps that Dan [...] Read more – ‘Installing MySQL from source on Mac OS X Leopard’.
Want to brush up on your writing? Writing a lot, by starting a blog or keeping a journal can certainly help but Kurt Vonnegut believes that good writing comes from good ideas and saying exactly what you mean. How to Write With Style by Kurt Vonnegut [via Jason Santa Maria] Newspaper reporters and technical writers [...] Read more – ‘How to write with style’.
Some of the Twelve Horses crew attended the Rich Internet Application Dev Shed 2008 this week and since we would be out of the office both Thursday and Friday, we wanted to hit the road without missing a beat. We rented a van, setup our laptops, and drove five-hundred miles with a fairly speedy WiFi [...] Read more – ‘Create a mobile WiFi hotspot for roadtrips’.
