Musings for the entrepreneurially minded
Posted in Software on May 23rd, 2017
Privacy and cyber security has always been an important topic in the tech world however now it is more important than ever before to protect your privacy and protect your data from the prying hands of corporates and also Governments. Personal, private and sensitive files you have sitting on the ‘public cloud’, including but not […]
Posted in Software on May 17th, 2016
Back in early 2012 I went to a local Apple store and purchased an iMac 27″ with 1Tb hard-disk and 4Gb of memory. The big screen was fantastic to work with. Over the years, as the updates in OS came through, the machine was slowing down. OS X Mountain Lion followed by OS X Mavericks […]
Posted in Entrepreneurship, Software on Jul 7th, 2015
This is the story of JARtool. A simple MS Access application that ended up running USD $2bn worth of quotes through before it was superseded. It was also the seed that would grow and ultimately lead into a startup. It is 1998 I had just joined Sun Microsystems Australia as an Account Executive for service […]
Posted in Software on Aug 23rd, 2012
It is hard to read the news these days without seeing reference to Apple in some form or another. Recently Apple has attained the crown of being the most valuable company by market capitalisation in world history. The stock price has been driven upward by the frenzy surrounding the rumoured release of a new iPhone […]
Posted in Entrepreneurship, Software on Mar 19th, 2012
An interesting iPhone App that I’ve used quite regularly is AutoStitch for taking panoramic photos. How it works is you stand in one spot and take a series of photos as you turn around on the spot. Each photo you take should overlap adjacent photos. The AutoStitch app then “stitches” the photos together to make […]
Posted in Entrepreneurship, Life and Self, Software on Sep 3rd, 2010
Over the last 8 years I have built two companies from scratch. Zero to greater than $1m AUD in annual turnover. Mind you both companies are not doing greater than $1m in annual turnover now but that is a different story! So what I intend to do over the next few weeks is build a business […]
Posted in Software on Feb 27th, 2008
Karl Fisch, a high school administrator at Arapahoe High School in Littleton, Colorado, pulled together a powerpoint with some interesting and thought-provoking ideas. Shift Happens – Did you know? Karls blog is here.
Posted in Software on Feb 16th, 2008
Michael Wesch is an incredible visionary and is is Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Kansas State University. His presentation, “Web 2.0… The Machine is Us/ing Us” is incredibly thought provoking and really nails down the fact that we only can estimate technologies advancements but are yet unable to comprehend the affect on every day […]
Posted in Software on May 10th, 2007
Innovation is the key to the creation of new wealth in economies. Innovation drives employment growth, technological development, business rejuvenation, and global competiveness. Entrepreneurship provides the link between invention, innovation and success. Innovation is the application of the new technology or process to a new product, service, or production or management process. Someone has to do […]
Posted in Software on Dec 15th, 2006
Hmmm. This is the first time I’ve seen Google throw an error…