On Wednesday, Jan. 20th 2010 the total of all sales of all Script Software products will be donated to Doctors without Borders working in Haiti. The charity has a very good reputation and is badly needed.
This means everything you buy that day for yourself or for others the total of all sales will go straight to this charity in Haiti.
We hope you will take this opportunity to get good software and benefit a good cause.
Thanks
The folks at Script Software
These are things most independent professionals need to do when charging clients. Keeping track of invoices and following up. There are hard ways and there is an easy way. I recommend
freshbooks. Click that link to try it out free or go here:
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i love audible books on my ipod. its how i do the dishes, drive, walk, etc. when i am by myself and doing some mindless task its great to catch up on books and listening saves my eyes.
if you want to try a wild listen then when you are there search for the book shantaram (for the unabridged version). its based on the life of the author in india. it has criminal philosophers, mafia, history, beggars, actors, gangsters and of course love. beautifully written and with a great narrator.
I just had a friend call and say he couldn’t get his hard drive to come up on his powerbook. I love to help others but I totally hate it when people call me in this situation. I said do you have a backup to which he answered ‘No’. After trying using a startup disk it looks like he has had a hardware failure. All his photos, his work, documents, business, etc. is gone.
Backup and backup twice. Backup locally and use a service in the cloud like iDrive. They are free for 2 GB and $49 for 150 GB for a whole year. It has great software that backs up automatically at night. The first time may take awhile but after that its quick. It gives you a secure feeling. Try iDrive Free its what I use.
Addendum: Since I wrote this I have had three people call me, one lost their main drive, another lost some files and the last had a backpack with their laptop stolen. Seriously, it pays to backup to the cloud.
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1password is another essential software if you find yourself using your browser to log in to banks and other sites that require logins. we find ourselves needing to do this constantly these days and every day we have several more sites and passwords to remember. 1password takes care of all that much better then the keychain apple has built into mac os x. give it a try.
Lots of new features but really just plain essential for anyone. Give it a try and let us know if anything is missing.
Julian will be doing demos starting Aug 18th at the Soho Apple store on Spring St. in Manhattan. Works on a Mac: Script Software 6:30-7:30 pm. Come on out and win some software. The tentative titles are:
International Herald Tribune June 25, 2008
“poverty is receding at a rate unsurpassed in history; and the power of the emerging dreamers, thinkers, tinkerers and innovators worldwide have only just now begun to transform our world.”
from http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/06/25/opinion/edamelio.php
By William J. Amelio
The World Bank recently revisited its “dollar a day” global poverty yardstick and came to a startling conclusion: It was wrong when it said some 250 million people in China had escaped from severe poverty between 1990 and 2004.
Instead, by its latest count, some 407 million Chinese citizens rose out of poverty during those 14 years – roughly one-third of the entire population of the most populous country on the planet!
This upward shift is being repeated around the world with amazing implications for society. The Brookings Institution recently forecast that one billion people would join the ranks of this rising middle class by 2020
This is cause for global celebration: The world’s riches are being opened to all of its citizens, who in turn are contributing new value and advances that will propel the world economy to greater heights of shared prosperity.
Why, after centuries of human endeavor, is this amazing transformation happening now?
Because we have moved decisively from what we called “globalization” into a new era of global inter-connectedness, where not just goods but information and ideas flow across borders constantly and (for the most part) freely as near universal access to Internet-enabled communications moves closer to reality.
This is the world of “Global 2.0,” and it is transforming our economies, our businesses and how billions of people live. We are all part of this change that has the potential to win the war on global poverty and deprivation in our lifetimes.
Globalization at first meant a rigid, world assembly line where the West provided ideas and innovation that were then exported for retooling through cheap labor in the developing world.
Over the past decade, globalization has morphed from a simple race to the lowest costs into a force that is weaving all of us more tightly together. The power of free trade, adoption of information technology and the explosion of talent and innovation on a distributed, global scale are creating one of the largest economic transformations in history.
These fundamental forces are radically shifting the patterns of business and society with regard to national and cultural identities – a key factor in rising standards of living.
At its heart, Global 2.0 means abandoning the notion of centralized control over the high-value aspects of production, adopting instead a worldsourcing network of innovation, where ideas can come from anywhere, as pools of talent emerge to meet market needs.
The world’s more forward-thinking businesses are adapting rapidly to this idea, and the new centers of innovation they are creating are fueling economic growth on an unprecedented scale around the world.
The result is to lift millions of people out of poverty – creating enormous new markets for business, and giving rise to an increasingly sophisticated and educated, global middle class.
Of course, change brings uncertainty, and with uncertainty comes resistance. The rise of a greatly expanded middle class, whose members come from unfamiliar nations and cultures, is also raising questions over whether we can afford to support this kind of increased demand on a worldwide scale.
The media and the blogosphere are filled with assertions – some bordering on fear mongering – that attribute everything from the price of food to the price of gasoline to the demands of the developing world.
Even if this were the case, it is difficult to accept that we should deny others a chance at prosperity because it may challenge our own comfort. As the evolution of the global economy delivers millions of people from poverty, we should recall what the first wave of a global industrial economy did for the masses of the impoverished in Europe and the United States in the last century.
But the very idea that we need to fear the global rise of living standards is flawed, because it assumes that everything else stays the same. It insists we are playing some sort of zero-sum game, and that for the developing world to rise, those in the West must fall.
There’s no denying that we’ll see increased competition for some of the world’s bounty, and that there are limits to certain commodities. But we are not living, contrary to fashionable pessimism, in a world of unending scarcity.
And that is because of the greatest strength to arise from this new prosperity and interconnectedness: an incredible engine of innovation that continuously drives costs down and performance up.
No one believed you could cut automobile emissions without dramatically impacting performance, yet today’s cars have better performance than they did in the 1960s while tailpipe emissions have dropped an amazing 99 percent.
The personal computer, forecast in 1982 to plateau at 5,000 users, today has surpassed 1 billion installed and will reach the 2 billion mark in under seven years – accompanied by thousand-fold improvements in price and performance!
As education and ideas flow more freely, the resulting innovation unlocks new possibilities, as it has in each step toward modernization. Once something in one part of the world becomes a best practice, it is almost magically adopted immediately everywhere, providing many more people a chance to innovate from that point forward.
It brings incredible opportunities for business as vast markets emerge, enriching those on both sides of each transaction and creating, rather than draining, wealth. Better and better communications lead to increased competition for innovative alternatives to those commodities that have limits, as well as more efficient ways to use them. It offers more to the world, not just a redistribution of what already exists.
This future will arrive just as fast as we remove the stumbling blocks – be they trade protection, restrictions on the flow of people or restrictions on the flow of ideas.
Refuting Malthus, poverty is receding at a rate unsurpassed in history; and the power of the emerging dreamers, thinkers, tinkerers and innovators worldwide have only just now begun to transform our world. It is not, as some believe, a case of whether we can afford a global middle class. For both moral and economic reasons, we simply can’t afford not to.
William J. Amelio is the chief executive of Lenovo, one of the world’s largest personal computer manufacturers.
Copyright © 2008 the International Herald Tribune
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