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Marc Orchant has been building, testing, and sometimes breaking hardware and software for 25 years. A recovering graphic designer, Marc is currently the Storyteller at VanDyke Software, a co-host of On The Run With Tablet PCs, a weekly podcast, and a self-admitted "productivity maven, gadget freak and software addict"....- more about Marc Orchant »
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- The Vista productivity debate rages on
- Well I seem to have hit a nerve or struck a chord at least with a lot of people with my recent post about the decidedly mixed reaction to Vista. It's the most heavily trafficked and commented post I've made here at ZDNet and reading through the comment thread reveals...
- Tags: Uncategorized, Vista, Windows, Software, Productivity
- Blog posts 2007-08-01
- Vista is taking body blows
- I've been on a bit of a blog and RSS hiatus the past couple of days and have been working my way through tales of destruction and distress (the 365 outage, not Lindsay Lohan's latest episode), news, and views. In my reading, there's a recurring theme that beats louder all...
- Tags: Microsoft, Productivity, Software, Uncategorized, Vista, Windows
- Blog posts 2007-07-25
- iGTD just keeps getting better
- I've been using iGTD for some time and am planning a review of how I've integrated it, MailTags, Mail Act-On, and a few other tools into a very powerful GTD system on my MacBook. But I'm on vacation in Telluride right now at the Bluegrass Festuval and that will have...
- Tags: Software, Productivity, Mac OS X
- Blog posts 2007-06-21
- OnTheRun with Tablet PCs podcast #38- all about the Lenovo x61 Tablet
- Listen here ( MP3, 21.3 MB, 62 minutes) orSubscribe to the show with this link RSSJames Kendrick and I have both recently picked up Lenovo ThinkPad x61 Tablet PCs and in show #38 we discuss the x61 from stem to stern. James has the SXGA+ (1440x1040) screen while...
- Tags: Windows, Vista, Utilities and Add-Ins, Tablet PCs, Software, Productivity, Podcasts, Hardware
- Blog posts 2007-06-10
- ThinkFree and EditGrid announce online spreadsheet partnership
- Why are these two men smiling? Because a partnership that increases the value of both parties is always cause for celebration.ThinkFree has been on a roll this year with big presence at both ETech where CEO TJ Kang also presented a new document sharing community and Web 2.0 Expo. I've...
- Tags: Web Apps, Software, Productivity
- Blog posts 2007-06-04
- Work virtually from anywhere
- Leo Babauta at Web Worker Daily has posted a very thorough guide to working virtually that focuses primarily on tools but also includes some excellent workflow recommendations. It's a bit Google-centric but he does provide a number of alternative choices for most of the key ingredients for a cloud-based workspace.What...
- Tags: Windows, Web Apps, Utilities and Add-Ins, Software, Productivity, OpenOffice, Mobility, Microsoft Office, Mac
- Blog posts 2007-06-03
- Tim Sanders' PowerPoint epiphany
- Tim Sanders ran into an all-too common problem at a speaking engagement. The sequence of speakers at a conference was running behind schedule and he found himself facing a hungry, tired crowd just before lunch.Faced with these circumstances, he made the snap decision to ditch the PowerPoint deck he'd prepared...
- Tags: Microsoft Office, Productivity, Software
- Blog posts 2007-05-29
- Zoho Notebook now in Public Beta
- At the end of January, I wrote about Zoho Notebook, the latest addition to the company's stable of web-based applications. At the time, I was very impressed with the concept and initial execution and today, Zoho has made Notebook publicly available as a beta. If you use a product like...
- Tags: Web Apps, Software, Productivity
- Blog posts 2007-05-22
- Grahl releases PDF Annotator 1.5
- Just received word from Grahl Software Design that they have released version 1.5 of their PDF Annotator application that is one of my must-have applications on my Tablet PC. From their announcement:With the help of lots of users test driving our beta releases (thank you!), we have now finished PDF...
- Tags: Windows, Vista, Utilities and Add-Ins, Tablet PCs, Software, Productivity
- Blog posts 2007-05-09
- OnTheRun with Tablet PCs #37
- Listen here ( MP3, 19.6 MB, 55 minutes) or Subscribe to the show with this link RSS James Kendrick and I hit the ground running in show #37 and device reviews are the order of the day as we discuss the HP tx1000...
- Tags: Windows, Vista, Tablet PCs, Software, Productivity, Podcasts, Mobility, Hardware, Gadgetry
- Blog posts 2007-05-06
- What's in your Tablet PC?
- Fellow Tablet PC MVP and GottaBeMobile.com contributor Warner Crocker wants to know what software applications you consider essential on a Tablet PC or UMPC. Hes posted his list here. My list has some overlap with Warners but diverges a bit based on the different ways he and I use the...
- Tags: Windows, Vista, Utilities and Add-Ins, Tablet PCs, Software, Productivity, Mobility, Microsoft Office, Hardware
- Blog posts 2007-05-03
- A collection of Mac tidbits
- Yesterday was a good day if youre a Mac user. Here are three nice things I came across while catching up on RSS feeds last night:Flickr has released a new Universal Binary of the Flickr Uploadr tool for the Mac (can I buy a vowel please?). According the the download...
- Tags: Web Apps, Utilities and Add-Ins, Software, Productivity, Mobility, Mac, Hardware, Google, Gadgetry, Blogs
- Blog posts 2007-05-03
- iotum Talk-Now and Jajah hook up
- This is one of those natural alliances that make you nod your head at the "right-ness" of the connection. Too often, I read about companies announcing "strategic alliances" that are neither terribly strategic nor actually an alliance in the sense of a meeting of equals generating a sum that is...
- Tags: CES, Gadgetry, Hardware, Mobility, Productivity, Software
- Blog posts 2007-04-26
- Web 2.0 Expo notes for Monday
- Its been a pretty action-packed day here at Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco between a full slate of sessions and a number of briefings with companies who are announcing interesting new or improved products and services here at the event. One of the trends I see is that there...
- Tags: Web Apps, Web 2.0 Expo, Software, Productivity
- Blog posts 2007-04-16
- Turns out the best PC I own to run Vista on is...
- Turns out the best PC I own to run Vista on is... my MacBook. Thats as good a definition of irony as I can come up with.Now before anyone reading that gets too hot under the collar, let me add the following qualifications to the statement above:I didnt say fastest,...
- Tags: Tablet PCs, Software, Mobility, Microsoft Office, Mac, Windows, Vista, Productivity, Hardware
- Blog posts 2007-04-11
- Wagstaff hits a home run on "death of software"
- This is a post I wish Id written. WSJ columnist Jeremy Wagstaff, writing on his loose wire blog, sums up the sturm und drang about the "death" of Microsoft recently announced by Paul Graham with an elegant and hard to argue observation. What were really talking about has less to...
- Tags: Web Apps, Software, Productivity, Mobility, Blogs
- Blog posts 2007-04-09
- Sticky Windows for Mac - elegant simplicity
- Managing the multitude of windows I tend to have open on my computers is constant battle between access and distraction. Im sure many (most?) of you have encountered the same thing. You get into a good flow state and the number of windows you have open grows until basic techniques...
- Tags: Utilities and Add-Ins, Software, Productivity, Mac
- Blog posts 2007-04-09
- A cautionary OneNote tale
- I received an urgent voice mail message from my friend Eric Mack last night. Apparently his daughters had been working for hours on a script in OneNote and cut the text to paste it into Word. Then it vanished. Ctrl+Z Undo didnt work. The Clipboard Manager (a badly behaved piece...
- Tags: Vista, Utilities and Add-Ins, Software, Productivity, Microsoft Office
- Blog posts 2007-04-03
- How to: Link Outlook and OneNote
- Eddie VanDerbeck at GottaBeMobile.com offers a short and sweet tip on using the new Outlook-OneNote integration. This is one of my favorite things about the Office 2007 upgrade and I use it all the time. In fact, at last weeks ETech Conference I subscribed to the event calendar, added the...
- Tags: Microsoft Office, Tablet PCs, Software, Productivity, Events, ETech
- Blog posts 2007-04-03
- OnTheRun with Tablet PCs #36 is now online
- OnTheRun with Tablet PCs #36- the shout-out show!Listen here ( MP3, 17.4 MB, 50 minutes) or Subscribe to the show with this link RSS James Kendrick and I are back with show #36 and shout-outs are in order all around with the shipping of my...
- Tags: Windows, Vista, Utilities and Add-Ins, Tablet PCs, Software, Productivity, Podcasts, Mobility, Microsoft Office, Hardware, Gadgetry
- Blog posts 2007-04-01
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