Ideas from Mark Stout

Our love/hate relationship with our phones is illustrated today in a Dilbert and a Non Sequitur comic.

Family Tech: Want all the news? Turn to Twitter : "Twitter to the rescue."

This is pretty cool.   A graphic to help orient ourselves to the highest mountains, to the bottom of the ocean.

Family Tech: Old geek is new again : "Before there were computer geeks, there were ham radio geeks."

Family Tech: Finding a job means online : "Job searching has gone high tech. Woe to the job seeker who is not computer literate, or worse, has no access to a computer and the net."

Family tech: Match the job to the gadget : "It used to be the gadget choice was laptop or desktop.  Now the list is long: desktop, laptop, netbook, ebook reader, tablet, MP3 player and smart phone."

Thoughts about using the camera in your cellphone was the topic of last Sunday's Family Tech .

I was thinking real hard about diving into a Google Chromebook when they come out.  I like the idea of doing all I can on the web.  I'd still keep my Windows 7 PC running as long as I could, primarily for editing video.  Other than than, I could do everything I wanted on a Chromebook. Ideally, I'd like a tablet that could work well for creating documents, slide shows and spreadsheet.  The iPad is not quite there yet.  Mainly because when you are creating those type of documents, you want another document along side -- maybe a web browser with the material you are writing about, etc. Who, I thought, would be the first one to create a tablet that would be good for serious work, and combined with a keyboard and a flat work surface, meet my needs for serious work as effectively as a laptop? Who thunk it might be Microsoft? Not me, until I listened to Windows Weekly this week .  Co-host Paul Thurrott said it best about 37 minutes in when he said "Microso...

If you use Google Tasks as I do in Gmail or Google Calendar, do you wish for a full screen version?  I just discovered there has been such an animal around.  Not sure whey they don't promote it more. https://mail.google.com/tasks/canvas