One of the first things I did once I got iOS 5 and the update to OS X Lion was get iCloud set up and running. I think iCloud is great and I like how well contacts sync up, but, frankly, iCloud isn’t indispensable to my life right now. What is indispensable? Dropbox. I’ve lost [...]
Dropbox is the missing piece to make iCloud awesome and indispensable
October 21, 2011 By 3 Comments
Oh Dropbox, what’s the next mess?
June 21, 2011 By Leave a Comment
My unabashed love for Dropbox is certainly being tested. First there was the whole we can’t decrypt your files, okay yeah we always could issue, which while bad wasn’t terrible. Yeah, well Dropbox didn’t again, except this time much worse. This time Dropbox engineers pushed some code into production (made live, etc) that disabled password [...]
Return of The Text Editor?
January 15, 2011 By 6 Comments
Remember when almost everything you did on a computer was, essentially, in plain text? Sure there were “word processors” back in the day, but the “formatting” was really just markup within text to start and stop formatting. Then came the “revolution” of WYSIWYG. Now, I’m not going to decry that as a terrible thing in [...]
More Back to School Tips and a Contest! Win Scrivener!
August 21, 2010 By 9 Comments
Over on the Future Shop blog, Krypto has given you her tips for getting a great laptop—Student Laptop Buying Tips – From a Perpetual Student’s Perspective—well here are some more tips from someone who spent a good amount of time in class, and in front of it. Okay, truth be told, these aren’t all my [...]
Would You Use iBooks as your iPad PDF reader?
June 23, 2010 By Leave a Comment
I’m not sure this is a great idea, but it is certainly a nice option: Once you’ve got the files uploaded to Dropbox, though, how do you get them into iBooks? Just find the PDF in Dropbox on your phone, hit “Open With” and choose iBooks. It’s easy as pie, and your PDF files will [...]
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