Monthly Archives: August 2009

Monthly Archives: August 2009

First Two Weeks With The MiFi

For years I’ve quietly lusted after a mobile broadband card for my laptop. I couldn’t justify the expense as most of my day was spent in an office, not in the field. Now as a consultant, I find myself out and about in a variety of places. The consistent challenge is Internet access. Originally, I [...]
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Save the Date: Social Networks for Busy Professionals

Mark your calendars for Tuesday, September 29, 2009 in the morning. I’ll be presenting my new seminar, Social Networks for Busy Professionals. The seminar is presented along with the Philadelphia Business Journal and will be held at Bowman & Company in Voorhees, New Jersey. More details are on the way so stay tuned…
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Would Google Voice be Approved If?

After reading the different statements to the FCC by Apple, AT&T and Google, I started wondering. Would the Google Voice application be approved for the iPod Touch? The same application on a device without the phone would still be very useful. The feature overlap is on the iPhone, not on the iPod Touch. It doesn't turn the iPod Touch into a phone, just a way to manage the Google Voice service.
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Tips for Writing on the Web

Read the following article now if you write on the web. 20 Tips on How to Write for the Web One of my favorites is the “one space after a period” rule. In HTML, two spaces in code are condensed to a single space. Now it is a writing convention. And my second favorite is [...]
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Piano Mover

The original purpose of “Piano Inside My Brain” was to have a place to blog that wasn’t affiliated with my former employer. At the time, this domain (howardyermish.com) was hosted on with my former employer and I wanted a place to experiment that wasn’t under company control. (The reality was that I didn’t want to [...]
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The Big Move

Well, I had been meaning to centralize things in more of a “life stream” format. Today was the day that I finally decided to take the afternoon and flip the switch. So over the next few days I’ll hopefully get everything configured properly so that all of the website goodness is back in gear. Thanks [...]
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Drinking from the Fire Hydrant

Social networks can devour your day before you realize it. I’ve heard from some people that they need to, “catch up on all of the Facebook posts,” or “read all of the latest tweets on Twitter.” No wonder they feel overwhelmed. Here are two quick tips to make this simpler. Don’t Try to Drink from [...]
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Love Those Banned Apps

I’ll admit it, I’m an Apple fanboy. But the last couple of moves make me angry. At first, I was really cheesed about what Amazon did concerning removing books from the Kindle. But their apology is a demonstration that they have taken responsibility for their actions and learned a little something along the way. A [...]
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