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More Gadgets

Another birthday and watching Dr. Sanjay Gupta on CNN show off his favorite gadgets prompted me to take the plunge and order a fitbit and a withings blood pressure monitor.  I’m already tracking some health information with Google docs, but … Continue reading

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Office 365 Update

After playing around with it, it’s very disappointing. It doesn’t actually “replace” office; I was amazed when it complained that it couldn’t find a registered version of office on my PC. Looks like Open Office (now that the infighting with … Continue reading

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Office 365 Public Beta

I’ve been using Google Apps and Open Office at home for a while now, but signed up for the Office 365 Beta as soon as it was announced. Could Microsoft finally be implementing their subscription price model for Office with … Continue reading

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Google Apps upgrade…leaves iPower off the list

quick update, Google has killed iPower and Microsoft has killed Holm. So the big guys have abandoned the home energy tracking market. Continue reading

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The Quantitative Self….or yes there are people worse off than I

Nothing like letting your iPad educate and inspire you whenever you’re not busy. I had my iPad propped up running TED (a great little app) while I was making lunch and it played a speech by Gary Wolf on the … Continue reading

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