Archive for October, 2008

October 31, 2008

Reader Question: How Do You Organise Your Time?

Recently I have found myself wondering that very question. I must admit I like to dabble in a lot of things during my week.
Here’s a short list…  Firstly I am studying for my second degree in Journalism…. I work as a Web Master for 3 days a week… I am trying to run this blog successfully…. [...]

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October 29, 2008

3 Quick And Easy Steps To Tell Someone You Appreciate Them

After watching the great video on the importance of saying thank-you, I realised that this is one area where I fail. Sure I say thank-you all the time, but those people are not really the ones who are important to me. They are not people who I spend all my time with. They are people I [...]

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October 28, 2008

Learning To Say Thank-You

How great does it feel when someone says a simple thank-you! It is one of the greatest feelings. It makes you feel wanted, needed, and loved. However we often don’t say thank-you to the people that really need it. 
Check out this video of Dr. Laura Trice examining the issue, and take the time to say Thank-You [...]

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October 28, 2008

Amazon search lists Barack Obama and John McCain as Terrorists

If you have been following the US presidential campaign you will know there has been a lot of fighting between the Democratic and Republican Candidates. However it seems that Amazon.com has tried to list Barack Obama and John McCain costumes under the search term ‘Terrorist Costumes‘.
The search term originally showed up Barack Obama….

However after a [...]

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October 27, 2008

Take The Time To Help A Student

Once of the most valuable resources a student has is time given by a teacher. Time is the ultimate gift, and is something that should be shared. Check out the video below of Dave Eggers great idea for tutoring, and then think about what you might be able to do in the life of a student you [...]

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October 26, 2008

5 ways to deal with ignorant or annoying people at work

I logged into my email from home the other day to see a message from a colleague. The message basically came to the assumption that I had not been doing my job as was asked of me. The assumption was totally incorrect and based on incomplete information coming from someone who should not be making these [...]

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October 23, 2008

The Top Ten Apple Get A Mac (Mac vs PC) Commercials

So you know what the Top Ten Apple Commercials Ever are. But do you know what the Top Ten Get a Mac ads are? If your not sure what I’m talking about, I am referring to the “I’m a Mac, and I’m a PC” commercials. 
These are a great little set of commercials which have been [...]

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October 22, 2008

The reason Apple sold so many Macs in 2008 is Happiness

If your anything like me you just live for statistics. I don’t mean you love to sit there trolling through boring numbers, but I do mean that you love the interesting numbers.
For instance you will know that Apple sold 2,611,000 Macs during Q4 of the 2008 year (9to5Mac). You would also know about Apples 1.14 Billion [...]

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October 21, 2008

The Top Ten Apple Commercials Ever Made

Apple have just released yet another instalment to the Get a Mac ads and it got me thinking. There are some really cool commercials that Apple have been made recently, and there are some brilliant commercials from the past, but which are the best? Which are the ads that get people thinking about Apple??
I went for a [...]

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October 20, 2008

Will Australians be able to afford the new Apple Macbook?

The global financial crisis has now hit the retail technology sector with price increases to the latest Apple Macbook releases.
Apple announced their latest updates to the Macbook range at an invitation only event on Tuesday. 
Anthony Agius is co-founder of MacTalk.com.au, a website dedicated to providing local news and information to over 17,000 Australian Apple [...]

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