Hocus Pocus

If your app is going to make it onto one of the home screens of my iPhone, you’d better be good. Here’s what’s on my first screen — and why. (more…)

Additional resources for attendees of my 2010 Axelson Symposium seminar, “Must-Have Technologies for Nonprofits,” Wednesday, May 13, at 11:30 am in North Park University‘s Lecture Hall Auditorium. (more…)

On Monday evenings, from August 30 to October 18, 2010, I’ll be teaching a graduate elective on social media for business and nonprofits in the School of Business and Nonprofit Management (SBNM) at North Park University. Here’s the current, working draft of a course description. (more…)

Here are all the clocks I have to reset twice a year for daylight-saving time: (more…)

Two things I want for icons in the Macintosh Finder:

1. Color-labeling icons in the Finder is OK — but I wish applying a label would wash the whole icon in color or surround it in a colored halo so that it were even more emphatic.
2. And speaking of emphatic, I wish I could adjust the size of individual icons in any window (not just change the size of them all).

I want a refrigerator whose entire front surface is a digital display, programmable to show pictures, text, websites, anything.

Steve Jobs is being quoted this week as saying that “people don’t read anymore.” (more…)

From Ann’s dual-USB iBook, January 2008:

Ann just said, “You look for software like I look for shoes.”

I have to use Apple’s iChat application, not because it’s the best at text IMs (because it’s not) but because it is the best at audio and video chats. Getting the honest-to-goodness video phone we were promised in 1956 has been a joy. But now I can enjoy iChat even more. That’s because of an iChat extension called Chax. (more…)