Saturday, April 30, 2011

Upgrading to the latest version of DropBox - Didn't realise the version I had was two years old

Friday, April 29, 2011

A good day to be British - watching the TV while cleaning the house.
Oh the royal wedding on the TV - I am welling up here....
Trying to listen to writers talking about writing in a podcast but stories in my head keep getting in the way. May have to write a novel

Thursday, April 28, 2011

I want to buy an Inverter board for a 2008 iMac Intel 24" EMC 2134 - Anyone know where I can get one?
Yea - Hit 100,000 words written for articles since Mid December . Average of 530 words per article.

Wednesday, April 27, 2011

The dog is all jumpy because of the fireworks being let off in the town to celebrate Barcelona win in El Clasico
Wrote two articles of 600 words about Mac Vector graphic apps - Hopefully I can write one more later today.
Soon be in front of the telly cheering on Barcelona in the game against Real Madrid. Away the lads !!!
Dog walking done listening to audio book 'Clearheart' by Joe Cottonwood. Good story I got from Podiobooks

Monday, April 25, 2011

Using Market Samurai again this evening to suss out some more keywords for my niche sites. Good tool !http://goo.gl/HlqJY
Did the re writes to the first of the articles I wrote yesterday and published all 4 of finished articles. Blog - InfoBarrel and 2 for PR

Sunday, April 24, 2011

Enjoying a Sunday morning with my Macs, doing some writing before I have to go to work in the afternoon

Saturday, April 23, 2011

Just finished writing an article that is long enough that I can split into two separate articles when publishing. - Now for the re writes...

Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Supposed to be in Girona - Except for a migraine getting me. Still an afternoon asleep on the couch isn't too bad.
Just written an article on converting video for the iPad with MPEG StreamClip - super free video convertor does a great job of it.
I wonder if the latest iTunes update will let me put 4.3 on my iPad?

Sunday, April 17, 2011

Middle of the night and should be sleeping - Thinking is a dangerous pastime.....

Thursday, April 14, 2011

Really enjoying using the full screen mode of Scrivener I like the way that the place I am working on is right in the middle of the screen
The Spanish class is getting smaller but it is still a fun class with the ladies. No blokes learning spanish except me
Listening to Merlin Mann call McDonalds a restaurant. In real restaurants you get edible food !

Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Pleased to see that Final Cut update has been announced and will be available soon in the Mac App Store. 64 Bit too !
Completed a 500 word article - Now to do three re-writes of it for the back linking process.
Getting to love the simplicity of markdown and how useful it is too for making the simple HTML I need for posting articles
Just published more articles to InfoBarrel http://a20q.info/fmCB3f They do a revenue share thing for writers

Monday, April 11, 2011

Also there is an iPad application for Peg.gd too - which I will be trying out shortly.
Tried out Peg.gd and it is a useful tool for putting up small web pages without knowing any HTML - just need to know a wee bit of Markdown
Used the WebDav server with my DropBox account on the iPad to get Keynote onto it. Worked a treat ! I will have to see what else I can do !
Just got a free 10GB DropDav account - Now to find out what I can do with it....

Saturday, April 9, 2011

Looks a certainty for Barcelona to win La Liga. Nice !Real Madrid no chance of catching up now after loosing at home to Gijon last week.
If you are working the FMM then you have Man U vs Fulham and Chelsea vs Wigan which are probably good for that.
Today is a work on the house in the morning - have to fix the terrace some more & this afternoon there is a b'day party to go to.
THinking about the Mac20Q Podcast as I walked the mutt this morning. Time I got back in the saddle with it after a break

Friday, April 8, 2011

Just about to hit the sack and Mars Edit wants to do an update. Oh Well it is only a small download
trying out Sparrow Lite for my email - seems quite good so far. Looks a bit like the Twitter client

Thursday, April 7, 2011

2100 words for a set of Amazing iPad articles written this evening. To post on the http://amazing-ipad.com web site and others soon.
Finished reading 'The Devil's Star' by Jo Nesbø - Good story - 2nd book of his I have read so far.What book have you been reading?

Tuesday, April 5, 2011

My favourite Theme to use with WordPress is Atahualpa because I can configure is to look just the way I want it to look. Excellent
After a little messing about to get the Theme to work I have a new site set up on NameCheap Hosting. The plan is coming together

Monday, April 4, 2011

Just bought another domain and some hosting to go with it. Trying out a hosting other than godaddy for a change
Have to wonder at the Tweeple that announce every time they are having a coffee. Next they will be announcing a visit to the bog - urrggh
With the hassle I am getting with my computer I may have to go look for a big hammer - I am getting miffed to say the least
Running the Apple Hardware test to try and get more info about why the fans are now blasting. Good to have the screen working again though
Good to have the solar panels send the hot water direct to the taps after the winter of it heating the water for the boiler. Efficient or ?

Sunday, April 3, 2011

Two new articles written to use on Mac20Q web site. Tomorrow I will be re writing and then publishing them on the Interwebs..

Friday, April 1, 2011

Just finished an article of 2000 words for the Amazing iPad blog. Now to get it published.
I have been reading a couple of chapters of the book 'The Devils Star' by Jo Nesbø. Better translation of this than other I read by him
Last night I stayed up until 01:30 finishing off a post for WebbyHQ.biz about How things were going for the writing business.
Weird Stuff the monitor on the iMac started working this morning and is still working now - better cross my fingers for it.
Hurray - Summer has arrived here in Spain. Lovely warm day with blue skies. It has been a long winter it seems..