Just a note to the general blogosphere. I have 20+ Pownce invites just added to my account. If you need/want one let me know — I’ll be giving them out first come first serve.
Here is a great little video from Merlin Mann of 43folders. It provides some quick tips for managing your email and staying productive. Check it out, extremely entertaining and valuable for any corporate knowledge worker.
http://www.43folders.com/2007/07/25/merlins-inbox-zero-talk/
Last Thursday I came home to find my wife went out to the mall again with the kids. However when she returned this time she had a special surprise from the Apple store. For a long time I have expressed interest in moving over to MAC. There is no specific why I wanted a MAC over any other laptop but I was ready for something different and felt that given my career it was my duty to be open to different technology.So on Thursday I opened my new macbook and set out to run it through my normal tasks. Overall I have come to the conclusion that the OS really doesn’t matter anymore. I have also been using Ubuntu heavily and found that as long as I’m using firefox and able to access my news, photos and email a computer is a computer.My first impressions of the macbook/OSX is that it is very slick. Everything just seems to work. One of the most frustrating points with Linux is I had to tweak everything. Not only did everything seem to work but unlike my wife’s Toshiba I just reformatted it seemed to be fairly free of bloatware. The software that came bundled with my mac I actually am pretty interested in trying out. There were a few things I set out to do right away. I installed skype and joost. I have to admit at first the install process was different but by no means can I say that I was confused by it or did it cause me any trouble. I also needed to get a few files transferred over from my old desktop to my macbook. With a quick google search I found how to setup the mac to transfer files and in no time I had my documents, photos and music transferred over.I haven’t done anything at the power user level yet with my macbook but I have plans to do some audio work with it and maybe some development. So far I am extremely happy with and as I continue to use it more I be sure to post my thoughts.
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