First Impressions: 7 days with the iPad

by Doc Coleman - Nifty Tech Editor May 5, 2010 Hardware

I got my iPad on Monday, April 26th. Despite all the hype and the “reality distortion field” and the rabid flaming criticism, I wasn’t sure about the iPad, so I didn’t pre-order it. In fact, I remained firmly in the “I have to touch it first.” camp. From the accolades I had heard, I half […]

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#FollowFriday – @appadvice: iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch News and reviews.

by Doc Coleman - Nifty Tech Editor April 30, 2010 Follow Friday

This week I’m pulling a recommendation from my @NiftyTechBlog side.  I’m recommending one of my sources for this blog, @appadvice, the twitter face of http://www.appadvice.com, a blog providing news and reviews of the multitude of applications available for the iPhone OS.  While this blog focuses on best of breed products, App Advice takes a different angle.  […]

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OmniFocus

by Doc Coleman - Nifty Tech Editor April 26, 2010 Mac OS X

Whether your projects are small or large, eventually your going to need to get organized.  And the Omni Group has a nifty tool that they are sure will do the trick.  It’s called OmniFocus and it is available for the Mac and the iPhone.  Sorry, PC and Linux folks, that’s just how the Omni Group […]

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#FollowFriday – @pfischer: podcaster, father, geek, Balticon supporter.

by Doc Coleman - Nifty Tech Editor April 23, 2010 Follow Friday

This week’s FollowFriday recommendation is @pfischer, Paul Fischer.  Paul is a podcaster, a father, a computer geek, and one of the many people whose efforts are making Balticon 44 possible.  Unless you know Paul, or are a fan of one of the podcasts he has worked on, you’ve probably not heard of him.  Until now.

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#FollowFriday – @nathanfillion: actor, browncoat, funny guy, scoundrel.

by Doc Coleman - Nifty Tech Editor April 16, 2010 Follow Friday

This week we have a celebrity for FollowFriday: @nathanfillion.  This is the real Nathan Fillion, actor and star of Firefly, Serenity, and Castle.  Now, if you’re a fan of any of these shows, I expect that you’ve probably already looked Nathan up for yourself and are already following him.  If so, you know how entertaining […]

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Google Voice

by Doc Coleman - Nifty Tech Editor April 13, 2010 Phones

As a counter point to the earlier review of the iPhone, this week we’re looking at something you can’t get on the iPhone: Google Voice. A while ago, there used to be a service called Grand Central.  This was bought out by Google and re-named Google Voice.  And then Google started adding new capabilities to […]

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A slight delay…

by Doc Coleman - Nifty Tech Editor April 12, 2010 Announcements

I hate to have to do this, but life events have managed to eat up all of my available time this past week.  While I did manage to get out the first of the Follow Friday series of posts, I did not have time to lay out this week’s review.  Normally I get these laid […]

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#FollowFriday – @muskrat_john: creator of Dork Tower, deadly punster, comic wit.

by Doc Coleman - Nifty Tech Editor April 9, 2010 Follow Friday

I’ve been thinking about how to improve my Twitter recommendations lately.  Thinking much the same as @TeeMonster has discussed in his post on Follow Friday.  My answer was to do a single, long form recommendation here in my blog, but linked to by my Twitter feeds.  It was somewhat hard for me to figure out […]

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How The Nifty Tech Blog Works

by Doc Coleman - Nifty Tech Editor April 1, 2010 Feedback

Recently, a reader was asking me about the kind of compensation that I receive for doing The Nifty Tech Blog.  He seemed to think that companies were paying me to review their products, or were providing their products to me free of charge in exchange for a review.  Nothing could be farther from the truth. […]

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Crash Plan

by Doc Coleman - Nifty Tech Editor March 29, 2010 Featured

One of the most important things you can do with your computer, is back it up. Backups preserve your important data and can save untold hours of work by letting you revert to previous versions when you discover that you’ve done something to mess up one of your precious documents. Backups also soften the blow […]

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