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Introducing the New Book Cover!

This week was incredibly exciting as we embarked on a design adventure with 99designs to create the cover for (not quite finished) book #3: Nerd Know-How: The 24 Best Apps for Work… & How to Use...

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How I’m surviving #CES2015

This week I have the honor of attending the biggest consumer electronics show of the year, CES in Las Vegas. Frankly I’m completely clueless as to what will happen and what I should be doing. I...

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Microsoft Office Lens: The Office tool we’ve been waiting for

Oooh. Oooh. Oooh. I think I have stumbled across THE app that will transform my phone from a content access tool to a true work tool. Microsoft Office has released a series of apps that have the look,...

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Crystal Knows: Communicate better with personality insights

Update to my Update… Seconds ago, I finally heard back from Crystal. We’re not being sold or going out of business. We’ve been heads down trying to improve the product. Right now, the free plan is now...

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Postagram: Instant postcard photo memories

The topic that is causing the most “oohhhh!” from my audiences lately is when we talk about ways to show your appreciation or say thanks with technology, and one of my favorite ways to spread...

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Best Apps of 2015

Apple just released its top 25 apps of 2015, and boy oh boy are there some amazing tools in this list. TechCrunch did a great job of going through the list, so I’m just covering five of my favorites...

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How I Write the Book

I’m hidden in my office this summer working on book #4! This one will have more apps than ever before. I made a quick video to explain how I do my research and evaluate thousands and thousands of apps…...

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Translate into multiple languages at once

This little site is handy, though it’s definitely quirky and not 100% accurate. But it’s easy and fun to do. Just type some text you want to translate and then check the languages you want. In a couple...

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Apps to Learn a New Language

Poor Rosetta Stone. The language-learning software has found major competition with free options. This is wonderful for all of us, but horrible for my stock portfolio (I bought Rosetta Stone stock...

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5 Tools to Stay Focused

This week I’m assembling the best tools to help me stay on track as I push toward the finish line on Book #4. *****Help me stay focused… What tools can you add to this list?**** Pomodoro Timer Hands...

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Win a Rocketbook Color!

Hey, guys! I’m giving away the Rocketbook Color notebook that I tried out, along with the whiteboard crayons I purchased to use with it. If you entered last week, you can enter again for two chances...

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Reviewing the Rocketbook Notebooks

Last week one of my readers told us about how much she loves the Rocketbook Everlast Notebook, and you guys loved it! So I bought a whole pile of them to review. Bottom Line: if you take handwritten...

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Tools for the Job Search

These days people are searching for jobs for lots of reasons. Perhaps they are one of the victims of layoffs or furloughs or cutbacks. Or maybe they love the work-from-home life, but their employer is...

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