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So I posted Back to the Mac here in January when I put a gorgeous new 24″ iMac on my main desk top at home, replacing my Windows XP Media machine that got sent upstairs to serve the television (which…

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I posted about the software retail kiosk experiment at the London Oxford Street Borders store last month. I got word via email today that the first store is up and running. Here’s a picture: As I said before, I hope…

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When I was a market researcher think-tank person, in the early 1980s, I predicted that bookstores would be a natural channel for software. Twenty-some years later, I was wrong and I’ve been wrong for decades. I hate that. But here’s…

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What a contrast! I was reading Seth Godin’s latest, Meatball Sundae, on the plane last night and then my email points me (thanks Caryn) to Gene Marks’ Tech ‘Solutions’ Your Small Biz Can’t Use, on the BusinessWeek site. Gene Marks…

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Does Web 2.0 Make us Dumber?

by Tim Berry on December 17, 2007

in Productivity Software, Technology

Paul Barth has a very interesting post tracking actual neurological research about problems related to multitasking. Neuroscientists have shown in study after study, that multitasking isn’t helping us be more productive, but in fact, is making us dumber. Are some…

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5 things I like about my tablet computer

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Cale Bruckner had an interesting post over the weekend, tracking an open discussion between Joel Spolsky, of Fog Creek, well-known blogger and software author, and the developers of BaseCamp. It is about software developers trying to figure out the future…

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David Pogue on Simplicity

by Tim Berry on July 29, 2007

in Productivity Software

This 20-minute Ted session is both entertaining and insightful. — Tim

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Don’t Blame the Tools

by Tim Berry on May 29, 2007

in Productivity Software

I like Bill Brelsford’s Killing PowerPoint isn’t the Answer posted today in his Small Business Tools blog. PowerPoint doesn’t make presentations, people do. Blaming the tool is sloppy thinking. Tools that help are good, thank you very much, even if…

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Last Saturday (1/13/07) I was awarded the United States Association of Small Business and Entrepreneurship (USASBE) “Corporate Entrepreneur of the Year” award at the USASBE annual event in Orlando, FL.

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