The anti-virus (AV) application is dead, right? This often bloated, resource-intensive application has to scan every single file on a computer; but still misses that one malicious application that brings your network to its knees.
In all the iterative changes and interesting products, I felt there was one single standout; and it comes from a company that’s headed in the wrong direction. That standout product was the Blackberry Messenger (BBM) on iOS and Android.
I read countless blog articles throughout the year, and enjoy it when I find great stuff to read. This is my favourite blog of 2013.
During the year, I’ve also seen a great shift. More prolific blogging about real products and ideas. More companies and individuals interested in having me be a part of the ideas they’ve created. I am now in a better position than ever to support and invest in other ideas.
I’m a regular prognosticator, or at least I think I am. As a regular reader, you probably remember last year’s list of predictions. To be fair, I don’t make it easy; I won’t have the benefit of seeing products at the world’s largest tech conference (CES) in early January.
You have probably noticed that we’ve had some problems here with the podcast and software downloads. Hitting any download-related links brings you to a lovely Dropbox 509 error page. I wanted to explain what was going on.
When the coins accumulate, many turn to time-consuming counting and rolling, or costly services that charge fees such as 11.9% to count the coins. You can do all this free if you want. I’ll show you how.
Now that I have Blackberry Messenger, I can share my thoughts on this new tool, and how this may affect the future of other related applications.
I missed the most recent Apple event. Once I was able to take a closer look, I thought I’d offer some thoughts about what’s new and interesting from Apple.
A recent blog I posted about a company I can’t name doing a thing I can’t talk about – was entirely forced offline because of a legal threat. The threats keep coming; This time from what appeared to be a Multi-Level-Marketing firm named Leadership Team Development Inc. (LTD).