Monthly Archives: July 2009

A Homework Assignment for Business Types

Posted on July 31, 2009 by Bruce Keener

John Gruber of Daring Fireball recently penned an article entitled Microsoft’s long, slow decline. For those of you who are interested in why and how businesses can decline and be taken over by competitors, Gruber’s article is a pretty good … Continue reading →

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Links You’ll Like

Posted on July 29, 2009 by Bruce Keener

Here are some links to articles I think you will enjoy: jkOnTheRun on an exclusive interview with Barnes & Noble: a e-book Reader on Every Platfrom Gear Diary on Evernote adding another new feature (ability to search PDFs via their … Continue reading →

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Dropbox: Sync Files Between Your Computers

Posted on July 27, 2009 by Bruce Keener

My consulting activities generally involve working with lots and lots of files. Most of the time I work with those files on my iMac or with the Mac’s Windows XP partition, courtesy of VMware Fusion. (I have file-sharing enabled for … Continue reading →

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Learn from Amazon: Nobody Cares How Good You Were – Now Is What Counts

Posted on July 23, 2009 by Bruce Keener

After my morning coffee, I watched this 8-minute YouTube video of Jeff Bezos talking about Amazon and the acquisition of Zappos. Among other things, Bezos laid out what he considered to be the secrets behind Amazon’s success. I thought his … Continue reading →

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TaskPaper: A Simple To-Do App for Macs

Posted on July 23, 2009 by Bruce Keener

In continuing my experimentation with some of the newer GTD tools, I started tinkering with TaskPaper a few days ago. While the app is built to run only on Macs, another developer provides a similar product, TodoPaper, for Windows. I … Continue reading →

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Four Months Free Hosting at Tiger Technologies

Posted on July 22, 2009 by Bruce Keener

For about the past year Keener Living has been hosted by Tiger Technologies. I could not be happier with my choice of hosts. These guys are absolutely great. Right now Tiger is offering four months of free hosting. If you … Continue reading →

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Only Hours Left to Get “Free” for Free [Kindle]

Posted on July 21, 2009 by Bruce Keener

Update: It’s too late now … 22 July 2009 was the last day the book was free … current charge as of this update (23 July 2009) is $9.99 A reminder that Chris Anderson’s book Free is available for free … Continue reading →

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A Few “Techie” Links of Interest, 21 July 2009

Posted on July 21, 2009 by Bruce Keener

Bill Gates has made some of Richard Feynman’s lecture videos available at Microsoft’s Project Tuvo site. These are his Cornell lectures of 1964, and address his insights on the “character of physical law.” Of all the people who ever lived, … Continue reading →

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Lessons in Leadership and Vision from a Walk on the Moon

Posted on July 20, 2009 by Bruce Keener

At the age of 60, I can still remember man’s first walk on the moon. As we celebrate the 40th anniversary of this historic event, I think back to watching the walk on TV in the wee hours of the … Continue reading →

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Google and Microsoft Competition is Already Benefitting Us

Posted on July 20, 2009 by Bruce Keener

Last week I noted that Google Apps now sync with Outlook Calendar, Contacts, and Mail and that Microsoft Office 2010 will have online versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote, thereby competing head-on with Google Apps. Those are great examples … Continue reading →

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