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Why I bought Instapaper—again.
You know those moments in life when all the right pieces come together and stuff just seems to work out? Hopefully this doesn’t jinx it, but the world appears to be telling me that “Tris, your calling...
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Google Buying QuickOffice is the Death Knell for Microsoft
That’s it, Microsoft you’re now toast. An also-ran. The writing is on the wall. Ship has sailed… Okay you get the idea. Why am I making this pronouncement? Because Google just scooped up QuickOffice...
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California Sounding the Death Knell of the Printed Textbook?
You know I’m a fan of ebooks. I rarely buy or accept or pick up paper books any longer. If a book is important to me, I’d rather be able to have it at my finger tips all the time (especially reference...
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Readdle Updates Calendars and Makes It Awesome
It’s funny how Apple do so many things really well, but just misses the boat on a few core apps on the iPad. Mail is a common whipping boy, but let’s not forget the build in Calendar app. Clunky, slow,...
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Blogging With Your iPad: A Basic How-To
You have an iPad. You’re surfing, you read and answer emails, read books, play games, watch movies, post to your blog… Wait, what? Post to my blog? No way! That’s way to hard. The apps don’t work well,...
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Evernote, IFTTT, Automatic Posts, and the Link Blog
Remember way back when, back when most of us had a link blog of some sort? Scoble’s link blog—this was before TechCrunch btw—could launch a simple post or company into the stratosphere of cool. Somehow...
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Why is it still so hard to review and edit blog posts?
In my short time at SoMedia, I was thrown back into a curious place that I hadn’t been to an a long, long time—people needed to review and edit my posts before they went live. I’m not saying that my...
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You can’t force people to work together—even when they should be
I don’t know if I’d say I’ve come late to the Evernote party, but it’s certainly only been in the past 6 months that I’ve really gotten into using Evernote for everything that has to do with storing...
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Feedly Pro open to all: I’m buying, how about you?
Since Google Reader’s demise lots of people were left foundering around looking for a replacement. I had known about (and used) Feedly for years so when they said they aimed to become the de facto...
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Let’s get back to Word 5.1
Microsoft is getting a new CEO and whoever that is, that person is going to have a herculean task ahead of changing Microsoft so it can really compete in today’s new software market. BGR gives this...
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An iPad with a keyboard is like a Prairie Schooner
Peter Cohen digs his iPad, but maybe not as much as I do. Peter feels that an iPad with a keyboard is like a car with a sail—You’re doing it wrong, or why using an iPad keyboard is like attaching a...
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HootSuite Isn’t a Social Media Dashboard
I’ve been a fan of HootSuite for years (the fact that they are also in Vancouver and lots of my friends work there is purely secondary). They quickly replaced TweetDeck as my Twitter dashboard of...
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Free iWork and the End of the Tyranny of MS Office
I know the world is focused on the new iPhones (5C and 5S) with their cool colors, souped up power, and fingerprint scanner, but I think one of the early (and smaller) announcements during today’s...
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The heir apparent to the Ubuntu Edge is the iPhone 5S
A while ago I wrote a piece for Geek Insider about the (unsuccessful) Indiegogo campaign for the Ubuntu Edge—The Ubuntu Edge is the Real Start of the Post-PC Era—where I made the case that the Ubuntu...
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Sharing WordPress Tips and Tricks Through Postach.io and Evernote
I’m doing a lot of research for my next book WordPress Absolute Beginner’s Guide . Not that I don’t do a lot of research for my books, but this time I’m saving articles, posts, infographics, and other...
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