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Problem: Need Remote for Presentation Solution: iClicker

By David North ⋅ February 19, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

After getting home after long week out of town, I was preparing for a presentation on Saturday morning. I had my PowerPoint slides ready and had taken them to Kinko’s to get printed, but I didn’t have a remote to run the slide show. I think I had loaned my USB one to my Dad. Walmart didn’t have any. [...]

Problem: Missing my Grandkids Solution: FaceTime

By David North ⋅ January 1, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

Sometime last year my daughter and her family moved from being close to us to several hours away. It was a good opprortunity for her husband and good for them them to be more out on their own, but it was bad that they took our grandkids with them. We love our grandkids. We love spending time with [...]

Will I ever Browse a Book Store again?

By David North ⋅ February 5, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

I like browsing in books stores. I can spend hours wandering around looking to see what books are there. Picking up a book, looking at the cover, reading the back cover, and reading about the author gives me a great feel for a book. Browsing in the book store is also a good way to find out what is [...]

iPhone, User Expectations and Info Systems

By David North ⋅ December 18, 2009 ⋅ 2 comments

I am always amazed at all the apps available for my iPhone. Seems like I find a useful new app every week and could find more if I took time to look. I think the experiences that business users are having with their iPhones will impact what they expect from information systems in their business. [...]

There is an app for that – iPhone to the rescue

By David North ⋅ December 3, 2009 ⋅ 2 comments

I was heading east on I-40 on a two day drive to meet up with my mother’s family for a big reunion in North Carolina. Something we do every three years at Thanksgiving. We had just crossed in to Tennessee and I noticed the speedometer was stuck at 65. It was broken. Just what I needed [...]

Finding a place to plug-in

By David North ⋅ November 6, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

I was on the road again this week and I noticed my new past-time: finding a place to plug-in my iPhone. I had to find a place to plug-in in the office I was visiting, in the hotel where I stayed the night, in the airport where I had a layover and in my car on the way home. As [...]

Problem: Track Travel Itinerary Solution: Tripit

By David North ⋅ October 19, 2009 ⋅ 3 comments

I have started traveling a bit more, and keeping up with my itinerary information is always a problem. I have the itinerary in an email on my laptop, but it is never very accessible when I am standing at the counter and they are asking for my confirmation number. I also usually have the itinerary printed out in [...]

Can you really read a book on your iPhone? Yes!

By David North ⋅ October 15, 2009 ⋅ 4 comments

I was sitting in the departure lounge in DFW airport waiting to get on my flight and I was reading a a book on my iPhone. The guy sitting next to me ask, “Are you reading a book on your iPhone?” I said, “Yes, I am.” He said, ” That is awesome! Can you really do [...]

Problem: Lots of Pictures – Solution: Flickr

By David North ⋅ July 20, 2009 ⋅ One comment

Digital photography is great. It make it practical to take hundreds or thousands of pictures without the cost of developing and printing. I have had the chance to travel quite a bit. In the old days for a two or three week trip I would take about 30 roles of 36 exposure film, about 1000 [...]

TweetDeck for iPhone – Just Awsome

By David North ⋅ July 15, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

If you you use Twitter, then you must already use TweetDeck. (My review and Mashable’s reivew) It is a great tool to help you view and keep track of tweets on different topics. I was at a WordCamp meeting in Dallas and one of the presenters was showing off TweetDeck. I was amazed at the [...]

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