Reading Time: 2 min For roughly 300 days a year, the weather app on my phone is all I need. We live in Georgia, so temp and rain are really all I need to know about. However, for a few months each year we have an outside chance of seeing some snow, which I love, so I pay a […]
Technology
Your eyes follow your mouse
Reading Time: 2 min It seems pretty logical, and it is, but when someone is moving their mouse around their computer screen, their eyes tend to follow. A paper out of Carnegie Mellon University studied this to determine exactly how much a person’s eyes match their mouse movements. They found: 84% of the times that a region was visited […]
Expand your mind with Heyday
Reading Time: 2 min While I use the native browser bookmarking tools a little bit, for years I’ve used various external tools to help keep sites organized. Right now I’m using Raindrop.io (which I first talked about a few years ago), and it does a pretty good job. It has a browser plugin to make it easy to add […]
Your computer is way more powerful than you realize
Reading Time: < 1 min It’s a common saying to hear things like “We have more power in our phones than NASA did in the 1960’s to put a man on the moon” — and it’s right! If anything, it’s a huge understatement. Rodney Brooks wrote a great article for IEEE Spectrum where he broke it all down, but his […]
Places where I was late
Reading Time: 2 min Generally speaking, I’m an early adopter of new media and technology. I like to try out new toys, mostly as entertainment under the guise of productivity. Looking back, though, I see a few times when I was shockingly late to the game. Podcasts Two of my favorite new podcasts these days are The Office Ladies […]
Find your true fans
Reading Time: < 1 min 11 years ago, Google did something amazingly creative to help find people to test their brand new Chromebooks. They offered some “spiffy Chrome stickers” to see which of their Facebook followers were really big Chrome fans. The idea was that you would have to take a quiz and then provide your mailing information — just […]
Going beyond accessibility to reduce motion
Reading Time: 2 min Building websites that are accessible to all users is something that continues to be a problem on much of the web, but it’s continuing to improve over time. For most sites, some simple steps will get you going in the right direction and put you ahead of most other sites in helping users with disabilities […]
My favorite Supernatural workouts
Reading Time: 2 min I mentioned back in May that I was really enjoying the Supernatural VR app for workouts, and I haven’t slowed down. Since that time I’ve done 270 separate workouts, with each one lasting around 15-20 minutes. They have roughly 800 workouts available right now, with more added every day, but I tend to gravitate back […]
Which is the right tool?
Reading Time: < 1 min I talk a good bit about various digital tools on here, like my recent post about Pipedrive. At times I probably play with tools more than I should (testing tools instead of doing work), but in a lot of cases it can really pay off. For example, I posted 12 years ago about Gmail’s “Send […]
Back to Pipedrive
Reading Time: 3 min When it comes to business, having a proper CRM and pipeline is crucial. Knowing who your current leads are, what stage they’re in, and when to respond is vitally important. Many people track that kind of info in something like an Excel spreadsheet, and that’s really not bad. Simply having a place for that data […]