Are you like me, and get frustrated when one of your gadgets doesn’t work to perfection? It is easy to forget just how far we’ve come. Technology advances at a breakneck speed. The gadgets and gizmos in our lives change drastically from month to month, let alone from year to year. An earlier comment by one of our readers, Jim Saul, got me wondering what tech was like in the year I was born, 1968, compared to today. Read on to see what I discovered.
Using bookmarklets has become a staple item for me in internet browsing — I use everything from Readability2Evernote, to a multitude of sharing and tracking tools, each with its own nifty difference from the other. My only qualm has been the way they clutter up my toolbar. No longer! I have now installed the bookmarklet to end all bookmarklets. Quix — as they say it "Your bookmarklets on steroids". Quix does everything. It comes with most things you might need already built in and even leaves you the ability to add your own. Want to search IMDB, for example? Click Quix, type IMDB and your search term and hit enter. That easy. I fully expect that one day I will ask it to make me dinner… and it will. At the very least it will point me to a really good recipe with just a couple of keystrokes and then allow me to quickly share it with the world at large.
As I’m sure many of you are now aware, I recently caved and bought myself an iPhone. Gone are my days of Windows Mobile mediocrity — I now join the movement of Apple users — at least until I get bored of their proprietary whims and move on to the questionable privacy of an Android phone. In any case, I’m here with the rest of you now and have immersed myself in the wonders of the app store while doing my best to spend as little money as possible. So far, in my two weeks of iPhone ownership, I have acquired over 50 apps and am using five pages of my springboard. Over the next few weeks, I’ll share what those apps are, page by page, along with a micro-review. Please feel free to share yours with me in the comments! Here’s Page 1:
Dropbox is one of our favorite apps here at 40Tech. The traditional use of Dropbox is to make files, such as photos and documents, available on any computer you use, or even on your mobile phone. But if you think outside the box (bad pun intended), Dropbox can be used in other ways to make you more productive when away from your main computer. Read on for a few suggestions.
Hey Authors . . . You Snooze, You Lose With the Google Book Deal
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