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Watch Your Investments Live On Your Gadgets

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After you’ve entered the realm of investments and the stock market, one of the more enjoyable and practical aspects of that activity is watching them. And thanks to new gadgets and better technology, you can do that from wherever you are, and in real time.

Five aspects of this live observation that are worked with most regularly include watching gold and silver prices, checking out the overall stock market analysis, using day trading apps, getting pinged when breaking news hits, and being sure to keep all of your apps and functional records continually updated. [Read more…]

Tips to Maintain High-Speed Internet Connection in Your Home

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In today’s wired world, it pays to have a fast internet connection. This will greatly benefit those running a business from home or people working from the comforts of their home.

Unfortunately, there are always issues when it comes to having access to a high-speed internet connection. Some subscribers complain that despite paying for a high-speed plan every month, a consistently fast connection is not always guaranteed.

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So how then can you ensure that your internet speed is as fast as you want it to be? There are certain things that you need to check and this apply to all internet subscribers regardless of the type of plan they have. You can also visit the iinet blog to get updated information on everything related to the internet.

Background Activity

You may wonder sometimes that even with your upgraded subscription, your internet access is still not up to speed. When this happens, try to check your computer’s background activity. [Read more…]

Last Minute Holiday Gifts for the Apple Geek

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Christmas is just a few days away. The malls are crowded, the stores are out of stock, and you still haven’t bought a gift for your special someone.  If he or she happens to be an avid Apple user, then you’re in luck. There are lots of gadgets and gizmos that you can get within hours of ordering. These are the perfect last-minute gifts! [Read more…]

New Mac Minis and Mac Pros to sport Sandy Bridge?

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The world of Apple geeks are now start to buzz again because it’s the second half of the year and traditionally, Apple announces new products around this time. Anticipation is getting feverish about a new iPhone that may be announced this September. But one other product category may also be announcing interesting news on its own and that’s the Mac Mini and the Mac Pros. [Read more…]

Lessons We Can Learn from Steve Jobs

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Before I go on to the meat of my story, Lessons We Can Learn from Steve Jobs, I’d like to share something funny that I found as I was sifting through fodder for this article:

According to this ZDNet article, one of the bullet points of the How to Design a Great User Experience manual for Windows Vista Developers says:

“Don’t be annoying.”

And I like Jason D. O’Grady & David Morgenstern’s retort even better:

“What OS are these guys using again?”

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Okay, enough fanboy/fangurl humor, on to the heart of the matter. [Read more…]

Apple Inc: Style Borne of Vision

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When it comes to gadgets and products, Apple seems to be synonymous with “sleek” and “stylish.” In fact, Apple Inc.’s products had become so synonymous with style that everything from the iPod to the Macbook Pro to even the Mac Pro, had become a status symbol in itself. [Read more…]

Simple Accounting for the… Simple. :p

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I had always abhorred spreadsheet software; more so basic accounting. But it was not until I had started to live a life of my own did I realize that there is a reason why accounting is a cornerstone in the corporate world. Yet even though I needed to account for my budget, payments schedules, and all that dizzying “adult stuff.” I never, ever, ever could take to Microsoft Excel. Not even OpenOffice Calc could make me feel better about blank cells that would need for me to figure out how to make them tally up my entries.
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Online Work Makes One Platform Agnostic

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As I write this, I’m running Windows on my laptop, here at the dinner table. It’s been almost a year since I worked on Windows, meaning actually running it for a few hours and doing real work with it. With my computers usually running some flavor of Linux or Mac OS X, Windows has mostly only been run only in those rare instances I need to run Windows-specific software. My most recent acquisitions, being an Asus Eee (running on Linux) and a Mac desktop, have brought me farther away from Windows, I was almost tempted to wipe it out from my laptop.

And yet here I am. I’ve booted up good ol’ Windows XP because my wife wanted to play Sims 2 (to get ideas for home remodeling). Looks like I haven’t forgotten how to use it.

Or perhaps it’s because I’ve learned to be platform-agnostic when it comes to work-related matters. With a lot of apps these days running over-the-web instead of locally, you would learn to be such. A lot of my documents and spreadsheets are hosted on Google Docs, so I could access them from any computer of mine, anywhere. My task list is on TaDa list, and my schedules are on Google Calendar. Let’s not forget Gmail. And then there are the instant messaging apps, which you could actually run online, or through cross-platform software (like Pidgin).

Then, of course, most (if not all) sites I work on run WordPress. So it’s usually the same thing no matter where I access the sites from, no matter what browser I use. Sure, there would be some differences in how shortcuts or keystrokes would be used on a Mac compared to a PC (such as the big CMD vs. Ctrl issue), or differences in the workflow (such as using alt-tab instead of Expose). But it’s essentially the same.

Still, being platform agnostic in terms of blogging means I would have to be well-versed with other blogging software as well, instead of just WordPress. I’ve had my share of using Blogger, Typepad and Movable Type, though not as extensive as my experience with WordPress. Managing a blog network with all blogs running WordPress I would have to be an expert (or try to be). But working mostly with Web apps, the Web browser has been my main “platform” so the operating system it runs on becomes a secondary concern.

And so as I close this, I would probably move back upstairs to my home office to fix some sites on the Mac, or perhaps even on my Asus Eee (small screened as it is, you could still squeeze out lots of productive time due to the fact that you can take it anywhere). Different OS, but because I’ve made the browser my “platform” I don’t think I would need much adjusting.