Etsy is the great place to shop for handmade items that are the perfect mix of craft and tech. The combo of the two is a special interest of mine. Here are five favorite categories. 1. Flash drives (also known as USB drives). They range from old Pez dispensers to old keyboard keys to handmade cases ...
Does Apple Do Worse in a Bad Economy?
I read the following quote today, said by Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer (courtesy of All Things D): "Frankly, the economy is good for us, because people do understand that Macintoshes are quite a bit more expensive for essentially the same computer." So he's expecting to have strong sales, thanks ...
Slittens: Special Mittens for Using with the iPhone
In the chill of winter, it's annoying to have to take off your mittens to make a call on your iPhone or adjust your music or surf the web--since the iPhone touch screen only works when your actual finger touches it. To solve the problem of cold hands, I've invented Slittens, a pair of mittens with ...
Managing Your Facebook and Twitter All at Once with Seesmic
I wanted a way to be able to update my Facebook profile, my Facebook IvanExpert fan page, and my Twitter feed all at once--and to be able to choose, on a post-by-post basis, where I wanted the posts to display. Twitter doesn't have any built-in functionality to allow Facebook updates from its ...
iPhoto Calendar
My 2010 calendar, made in iPhoto with photos from my trips over the years, showed up about a week ago. It looks great. Most of the photos came out very sharp and colorful. My only comments are: 1. I'm glad I manually lightened and color-adjusted all the images. They would have been too dark ...
How To Use Mail Merge in Office 2008 for Mac to Print a Holiday Mailing List on Labels
It's that time of year, when everybody sends out cards to friends and family. Or in our case, we send out cards to a select list of clients and colleagues. We use Mail Merge to do it. If you have your address book in Entourage, it's easy to create a mailing list and format it for printing straight ...