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• 02.24.08
  How Consulting Paid for 50% of my MBA
  Entrepreneurship, My Experiences

  Recently someone wrote me asking for advice on how to break into the world of consulting. I thought the best way to address this was through a post on my personal experience... When I was 24 I lost my job. I won’t get into specifics, but it was a difficult time because everything I had worked so hard for suddenly seemed to have been stripped away from me. At the time I wasn’t really sure what I wanted to do, but I knew I did not want to put my trust into another corporate experience for a long, long time. ...
  
  
• 01.30.08
  Does Vampire Weekend Use Macs?
  Brands and Marketing

  [Click for full image] After seeing Vampire Weekend debut their album at the Virgin Mega Store last night, two friends and I ended up having a long conversation lasting into the wee hours. We were discussing the role that innovation plays in society, and specifically whether or not the value that innovation plays on our global economy is less than it was 100, or 300 years ago. Our talk reminded me of a few articles I’ve come across recently dealing with brands, influence and social networks First, Mindset Media recently performed a psychographic a study of Apple users, determining ...
  
  
• 01.17.08
  Apples Latest New York Times Ad is Killer
  Brands and Marketing

  Apple has a new ad placement spot that is tough to miss – the front page of the New York Times. What’s particularly cool about this ad is that ‘PC guy’ actually appears to use the architecture of the Times’ website and clearly plays off the fact that the ad is being displayed on a newspaper's homepage (references the Wall Street Journal, etc). This is a great example of where ads are headed in 2008 (more interactive and more aware of their environment). I expect this campaign will continue to kill – I mean, even PC guy is now ...
  
  
• 12.23.07
  That frigtard thinks Windows is a superior operating system to Mac OS X
  Pop Culture

  The Urban Dictionary is a great site: See here ‘Frigtard’ is a great new word:  Frig (derivative of fuck) + tard (retard) = frigtard (fucking retard) Urban Dictionary's example of frigtard used in a sentence is priceless: “That frigtard thinks Windows is a superior operating system to Mac OS X”
  
  
• 06.30.07
  Plugin to discover Unencrypted Wifi Networks on a Mac
  My Experiences, Social Media

  So another small annoyance I found with my new Mac/OSx is that by default you don't know if wireless networks are unencrypted, or not. Thus for someone like me who travels a lot (and relies on mooching off others for internet access) it is a real annoyance to manually test each network. iStumbler solves that problem and it's FREE! Check it out. Great interface to boot!
  
  
• 06.29.07
  Transitioning from Outlook to Mac Address Book
  My Experiences, Social Media

  One of the roughest transitions for me on my new Mac has been going from Outlook to Address Book. For anyone who is serious about networking, Outlook though ugly, is extremely effective. Address Book on the other hand does not have nearly the same level of functionality. Porting Contacts from Outlook to Mac: There are numerous way to do this, but if you are willing to spend $10, the easiest way is with a small app called 02M (’Outlook2Mac’). Once ported you will what I mean when I state the interface is unintuitive for a pro Outlook User. To make the ...
  
  
• 06.22.07
  Port iTunes from a PC to a Mac
  My Experiences

  After two years of hardcore use I replaced my Dell. When I say hardcore I mean it’ the screen was replaced three times, the keyboard twice, the motherboard once, the fans three times. I destroy computers. A lot of thought went into what to buy but ultimately, following my best friend’s advice, I went back to MAC. I used to use Macs exclusively but after a horrible experience I switched to PCs throughout college. Well, I’m back to Mac and I plan to post some helpers for folks who are also making the switch. iTunes from a PC to a Macbook In my ...
  
  

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