This weekend I spent a lot of time inside my house. A mood overtook me Friday night and I didn’t really want to do much of anything. Originally, I had several plans in mind, including a motorcycle expo I’m glad I didn’t take the...
My Scrivener Quick Tips are a weekly series (usually) and take a look at features from the Mac version of Scrivener, v 2.3.1. If you are using the Windows version of Scrivener, not all of these features are available to you at this time, and the...
This has the potential to be a long post so, fair warning. First up: Laptop is back. The Apple store was packed. Again. I mean, really packed. Like, wall to wall people, packed. Shocking for a weekday, midday, if you ask me. But you...
Hi there. Been very quiet online the past week or so. This is due to my ongoing computer issues. I have a 2 year old 13 inch MacBook Pro. A week ago yesterday (Sunday), it froze when I was working in Word and Scrivener. Since then, it has...
My writers group has been passing emails back and forth today re: Apple’s new iBook EULA. I know this is also a hot topic across the ‘Net today, so I wanted to share with everyone what I sent to the writers group. — I would put...
What does your writing folder look like? By ‘writing folder’, I mean whatever you use to organize your writing. It can be paper books or pads, typed pages, old floppy discs, iomega zip discs, cd’s, dvd’s – even tape...
Episode 10: All Things From My Brain In the Milestone Tenth episode of the All Things From My Brain podcast, I talk about NASA losing it’s funding for the Constellation program, about the iPad, the Kindle, Amazon and Apple, of the impending...
I said I’d do it, I warned you – you didn’t listen, did you? Well, now it’s TOO LATE! THE RETURN OF THE PODCAST IS HERE! Episode 9 of the All Things From My Brain Podcast is here. In this weeks massive, DOUBLE SIZED...
I find these things interesting, and thought I would share em by compiling a list here today. The names were NOT changed to protect the innocent. Ars Technica Ars Technica has a lot of interesting articles each week. Sometimes I link em on...
Well. As you may or may not have figured out by now, I am most definitely an Apple head. I’ve got 2 iMacs at home and an iPhone in my pocket and I love to discover new games and apps to play with AND I love to share those finds with the...
Episode #8: All Things from My Brain In the eighth episode of the All Things From My Brain podcast, I talk about the petition to make the Kindle open and non-DRM, DRM in general with books, music, movies and dvds, how ESPN, the NFL and the Marine...
Episode #7: All Things from My Brain In the seventh episode of the All Things From My Brain podcast, I talk about the Kindle once again and the lawsuit against Amazon, about Firefox passing one billion downloads, Apple’s new 3.0.1 update to...
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