Mike Vardy

Review: Helvetindex Cards

Anyone who’s been following productivity on the Internet is no stragner to the Hipster PDA. As described on Merlin Mann’s 43Folders, the Hipster PDA is: “…a fully extensible system for coordinating incoming and outgoing data for any aspect of your life and work. It scales brilliantly, degrades gracefully, supports optional categories and “beaming,” and is […]

The Journey to Markdown: On the Results

Well, it’s been an interesting ride. I’ve learned a lot and have tried out a lot of different applications along the way. To sum up my journey, I’m going to answer a series of questions below that should provide some sort of closure to this saga. What did I gain out of learning Markdown? Firstly,

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