They will be Tips for Smarter, Better Blogging, for short. All of which is why my official blogging start-date is way back in 2005- I heard about these new-fangled "web-log" things and thought I ought to get in on that.Ī lifetime of computer love before and since starting my blog and the after-effects of coordinating a "Room Of Your Own" session at BlogHer '10 on Editing Photographs For Your Blog, has inspired me to start a monthly feature of on-line (preferably free) services that can make your blogging life easier and more refined, while also helping you with technical aspects, i.e. ![]() I'm the kind of woman who keeps a wish list of audio, visual, and computing electronics, not jewelry, shoes, or clothes. My career, before getting married and having kids, was selling computers for Dell (back when all their tech support, sales, and everybody except the people who built the machines were housed in just three buildings on the outskirts of Austin, TX, if you can imagine such a thing). I can't write code or anything hard-core like that, but I could set up your home network, install a new hard drive (or any other peripheral) in a desktop chassis, upgrade the RAM in anything, and wipe a hard drive and install a new operating system with no problems (including Linux!). You know the paraphrased old saying, "we announce no software before it’s time.I like to think of myself as a bit of a techie. If you know me and Palo Alto Software, you might wonder how far we are from yet another attempt at a Mac version of Business Plan Pro. And Firefox seems like a familiar friend too. On the good side, I’ve gotten used to iTunes because of my iPods and iPhone, so that will help. I mean missing the things I’m used to, like Windows Live Writer, SnagIt screen capture, Roboform. Since it’s been 12 years, I realize I’ll have a long move-in time for the new iMac. And now I, president and founder, have a new iMac as my main system at home. One of our best programmers works on a Mac using Windows via Parallels. We embarked on projects to port Business Plan Pro to Mac three times in the 12 years since the first version, but the numbers were just impossible to make - 10X development costs for 1/100 the sales just don’t work, no matter how much I like the Mac. In Palo Alto Software, meanwhile, as the Windows market took over we tried to continue with Macs, but it became so much more drag than sales justified that we finally, in 2003, dropped the Mac products. The Macs stayed around for a while, but our home was without Macs until about a year ago when I installed an old Mac mini. I moved to Windows as we developed Business Plan Pro for Windows, in 1994.Īs our business moved heavily over to the Windows side, so did I, with my main computers. ![]() I stayed with Macs as the main system, upgrading every so often, until 1994. I wrote my second book, which was published by McGraw-Hill Microtext, on a Mac and laid it out using very early desktop publishing techniques and an Apple Laserwriter. I had one of those original Macintosh units within a month of its introduction, and it became my main system when they finally had hard drives some time in 1985. This is after about 12 years on Windows, which, in turn, came after about 10 years with a Mac as my main computer. I’m writing this using Mars Edit on a new iMac, which has just replaced my Windows Media computer as my main system on my home desktop.
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