Posted on October 24th, 2007 by Carel
Filed under Apple, Business, Entrepreneurship, SAP, Technology
I think that the exponential increase of on-demand video (youtube.com, Yahoo! video) will allow entrepreneurs to learn on-the-fly from some incredible sources. The problem with Youtube is that it takes time to find quality videos, like this Sellingpower interview of SAP Americas CEO, Bill McDermont.The Stanford’s Educations Corner is an entrepreneur’s best friend. It contains […]
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Posted on June 6th, 2007 by Carel
Filed under Apple, Blogging
Today I decided to switch from Apple’s iWeb to Wordpress for my business blogging. I will migrate the old blog entries over time. Here is the link to my old blog: http://web.mac.com/cbekker/iWeb/CarelsBlog/Blog/Blog.html
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Posted on October 17th, 2006 by Carel
Filed under Apple, Business, Charity, South Africa
Apple’s recent launch of the iPod Nano (PRODUCT) RED triggered this blog entry. Technology makes our lives much easier and more productive, but technology can also make a huge difference in less advantaged people’s lives in the rest of the world. In the follow paragraphs I list a number of interesting and worthwhile projects aimed […]
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Posted on August 30th, 2006 by Carel
Filed under Apple, SAP, Technology
With Ruby on Rails (RoR) it is possible to develop a blogging engine in 15 minutes. Watch this 15 minute video demo-ing RoR. The Ruby language was developed by Yukihiro Matsumoto (Matz) in 1994. According to Matz:
“Ruby is the interpreted scripting language for quick and easy object-oriented programming. It has many features to process text […]
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Posted on August 25th, 2006 by Carel
Filed under Apple, Business, Technology
In an earlier post I mentioned Google Spreadsheets. I decided to use this web app for a fairly detailed spreadsheet recently. My initial comments are:
The good…
The web-app is fairly responsive and you can easily and quickly update a spreadsheet. Navigation within a spreadsheet is fairly snappy.
Smaller spreadsheets load quickly from the Google site. Smaller spreadsheets […]
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Posted on August 8th, 2006 by Carel
Filed under Apple, Technology
This week Apple announced a lot of great products at WWDC in San Francisco during Steve Job’s keynote. The one product that impressed me the most is a feature called “Time Machine”. Time Machine will be part of the upcoming Leopard OSX release. It provides full automatic backups and phenomenal and very intuitive recovery of […]
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Posted on August 5th, 2006 by Carel
Filed under Apple, Business, Technology
OK, another entry for the day. Do you ever have the need to have access to your desktop, but you only have your web-enabled phone with you. Well, now you can. Have a look at: www.soonr.com. They support both Windows and Mac — great!
The best part is you can use Skype on your cellphone!!! […]
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