http://www.coolnerd.net More Than Just An Oxymoron! Tue, 08 Dec 2009 19:09:26 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I just got an email from Google announcing the beta release of Google Chrome for Mac & Linux. The browser is clean and runs very fast, but remember this is just beta, and there are several features that are missing. Darrell Etherington over at theAppleBlog lists out the missing features, and ... http://www.coolnerd.net/2009/12/08/google-chrome-for-mac/ Recently I signed up for a membership on Lynda.com after hearing about the site from so many different forums and comments from several friends of mine. Granted there are many tutorial based sites around the web, but none that are broad and expansive as Lynda.com, at least that I've seen ... http://www.coolnerd.net/2009/12/03/lynda-com-online-tutorals/ Ok I know what a lot of you are thinking...Windows Mobile 5! I am the proud owner of a Treo 700wx. Why not upgrade to an iPhone or a Blackberry and take advantage of other Twitter apps on those devices you might ask? I admit, and iPhone would be real ... http://www.coolnerd.net/2009/07/10/twikini-twitter-app-on-wm5/ Good title right? Let's just say I have been productive in many other others besides keeping CoolNerd updated. Well, I will do better this year. Okay enough of the guilt trip, I want to throw out a quick blurb about what I have been working on personally and professionally when ... http://www.coolnerd.net/2009/01/06/productivity-my-take-on-gtd/ Earlier this year my wife and I decided we would organize a monthly budget into a Google spreadsheet so we could both collaborate and make sure we stayed within our means. This worked for about 3 months because of the pain it was to manually review our monthly transactions and ... http://www.coolnerd.net/2008/09/05/get-your-budget-into-mint-condition/ With the advent of this summer I have several hikes and a high adventure backpacking trip to look forward to. My first objective has been to get in shape and My Fitness Partner and a great workout program from Outside.com my co-worker Glen (check out his site: glenerd.com) recommended have ... http://www.coolnerd.net/2008/06/13/backpackercom-adventure-planner/ One big piece of news from today is the deal between Plaxo and Comcast - yep - another big merger. The purchase price is between $150 and $170 million. All in all I think this is a great move for Plaxo, even though they originally wanted $250 million. Plaxo has ... http://www.coolnerd.net/2008/05/15/plaxo-comcast-deal/ Recently I came across one of the sweetest online tools for screen capture and screen video casting - it's called Jing. This amazing little utility, built by TechSmith, makes it easy to capture the screen image, but the video screen recording is what I really keyed in on as a ... http://www.coolnerd.net/2008/03/03/jing/ The other day I was stumbling around and I came across this site with some great quotes about Product Development. One of my favorites from this list is from Seth Godin: "People don't steal ideas. Ideas are cheap. Implementation makes the difference." One thing that is crucial for Product Managers ... http://www.coolnerd.net/2008/01/28/product-dev-quotes/ As a product manager I have been seeing more and more variance between this role and what a project manager is supposed to operate as. I'll admit that until recently I saw very little difference between the project manager and a product manager. Was I ever wrong! ... http://www.coolnerd.net/2008/01/02/product-management/