Mark Davis
February 24, 2014
Do you keep your bookmarks in your browser? I did too – about 2,000 of them, until I suddenly had 1,600. Only, it wasn’t so sudden. Gradually, entire directories became empty, but they were bookmarks I used infrequently, and it happened over a period of months. So, I didn’t notice for a long while. What [...]
Mark Davis
January 5, 2014
Almost exactly a year ago, I moved my to-do list to the cloud and wrote about it here. It was a great move that made me able to manage my to-dos across all my mobile devices. It freed me from an old Access database I was using that limited me to Windows. I did an [...]
Mark Davis
December 31, 2013
Are more of your website visitors coming from a mobile device instead of a desktop or laptop computer? Mine are, and even though this site is optimized for mobile, it needs to evolve. (That includes smartphone plus tablet usage.) In What Users Want Most from Mobile Sites Today, Google reports that 61% of mobile visitors [...]
Mark Davis
August 13, 2013
In my last post I wrote about the need to work on PowerPoint files as being one of the few things dragging me back to a laptop or rather than being able to work wholly on a tablet. How spoiled have we become? I remember what a breakthrough it was when I got my first [...]
Like a lot of people, I have a set of computer files I like to keep on hand, both at work and at home. At one point I used to move them back and forth on a floppy disk, then zip drive (remember those?), then USB, then later on I’d connect the two computers on [...]
Mark Davis
January 30, 2013
Twitter launched Vine on Thursday. Vine lets users create and share videos lasting up to six seconds. Building on the huge success of Instagram, Vine users can follow other people, whose posted videos show up in a feed on their phones and can be easily shared. On Monday, four days after its release, hard-core pornography [...]