Moving to Mac

Although I have been thinking about it for some time now, I have
finally taken the plunge and I have invested in a mac. The initial
outlay on the macbook is a bit more than a comparable windows PC, this
was not really my concern, it was the conversion away from the windows
operating system. I was worried that it would take me some time to
reach the skill levels I currently l have with windows and time is
scarce enough.

I was in London on Wednesday last and went into the apple store for a
look and thanks to the experience I came out with a macbook under my
arm. I think the conversion will be fine however as I have hardly
turned on my dell since.

The macbook is certainly cool, I chose a black macbook with duo core
processor, 2 Gb of memory and 180G harddrive. I couldnt wait to get
it out of the box and I had no problem getting set up initially.

I am currently trying out pages and keynote and they seem fine, I have
found that I really only use the basic features on word and powerpoint
and everything I need seems to be in the iwork versions.

I am going to transfer over my mail, contacts and critical files over
the holidays, so hopefully I will be fully up to speed on the mac by
the time I get back from the holiday.

Happy Holidays!

Facebook Rules!

I could not understand all the hype about social networking sites, with everyone going on about how important they were, how they were growing so fast, etc, etc.But then I had not tried it out at that stage.

After some good advice one day when a very wise person urged me not to comment until I tried it, I took the plunge and signed up with facebook.  

I really have one word to say in relation to my experience.  ADDICTIVE!  I had a quick look around and quickly found a few friends that I had not heard from in a long time.  All of a sudden we were emailing and meeting up for coffee.  I had added some apps and had a little site created in no time.  I must say Im not sure where superpoking was going but I tried it anyway and got a sheep hurled right back at me.  Interesting!

However on a more serious note I found a few interesting things going on.  Co-creation, I really took control and built my own little site in minutes.  Networking, I got a few friends and was up and running in no time.  Convergence, this was perhaps the most interesting part.  I downloaded a little app on my blackberry and I was updating facebook from everywhere.  And I mean everywhere!  

I think I may not have developed the same interest in the site if I had not got the little facebook icon appearing on the top corner of my blackberry screen telling me that someone somewhere in the world has sent me a mail or written on my wall.  Cool!

Probably the greatest learning for me is the only way to understand facebook, linkedin, bebo or whatever, is to stop talking and start doing.  As Kevin Kelly says if you are going to climb a mountain dont talk to someone who has not climbed one already.  Or in my case just climb a little one first!

See you on facebook!  And watch out for the sheep!