Mike Vardy

Sometimes You Break

Today was a crazy day. In fact, the whole weekend and start to this week was pretty hectic. Holiday decorating. My wife still settling in from a return from Vegas. Gearing up for school break. There’s a lot of family stuff that needed doing – and still needs doing. Oh, and then there’s the whole […]

My Mac App Roadmap

When I got my MacBook Air, I did the migration of many of my apps. I’d have liked to have had more time to prepare better and ensure that my MacBook Pro’s contents didn’t come over to the new machine in such a wholesale manner, but my Air had to be picked up sooner than

The Tower

There sure have been a lot of great free ebooks that have come out this week. I can’t think of a time where so many books that delivered the goods in realms that I love to dwell in all hit the virtual bookshelves in that short of a timespan. Needless to say, I’ve been having a

A Brief Review: My 11-inch MacBook Air

I’ve had my MacBook Air for several months now – and while others have had their hands at offering a review, I think it’s time that I threw my two cents in. My 11” MacBook Air  is the best computer I’ve ever owned. And here’s why… The Great This machine is the ultimate portable powerhouse.

Anne

I usually reserve this sort of thing for status updates on Facebook, but based on what Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg talked about last week at the IGNITION Conference in New York1, I felt that it was appropriate to put my thoughts here in a much longer form. Anne is my wife, and she is simply

Blah, Blah, Blog

The word “blog” has become a thorn in the side of many of us who write online, and it boils down to one big reason: Devaluation. The term “blog” devalues the craft of writing – at least it does now. That’s because content farms hire “bloggers” to write stuff for them at a pittance of

The Productive Macs Bundle Returns

Today marks the return of Apparent Software’s productivity app package known as the Productive Macs bundle — and this year’s included apps are pretty darn stellar. And you can save 85% by buying them in the bundle — they’re usually $264 separately. Productive Macs is offering them all for just $39.99. Included in the 8 app bundle

My Year-End Online Home Renovation

So after many, many years of trying, I managed to finally acquire my very own “dot-com”. As in, MikeVardy.com. I was kind of caught off guard when I found out that it had become available; the person who had it before had it for what seemed like forever. I put it to Google+ as to

Path: The App First Opened

This comes from Mike Gowen, who has taken part in answering a question on Quora about the reason Path added sleeping1 as one of its five moment types: “It also has an interesting (and possibly unintended) side effect, in that it positions itself as the first app you are compelled to open when you wake