My 5 Favorite Games For The Apple iPad

It is hard to believe the Apple iPad is almost a year old.  I personally didn't run out and buy mine on day one, but I did buy it very soon after release.  At the time, I was using an ASUS Eee PC 1000HE netbook for my personal mobile computing and it was alright for doing basic web browsing and checking emails.  I purchased the iPad to replace the netbook, but I never realized how much I would use my iPad for gaming!  Like other gaming platform such as Nintendo Wii or Xbox 360, not every game is good or makes best use of the specific platform's strengths.  The iPad is a very unique gaming platform.  The large 9.7 inch touch-screen makes for an excellent game board or immersive first-person shooter (FPS). You can even interact with some games just by tilting and moving the iPad around.  It is truly a unique and engaging platform for gaming. After almost a year gaming fun on my iPad I present to you a modest list of my top 5 games that exemplify gaming on the Apple iPad.

Scanning Documents To The Cloud with OfficeDrop

I work with Enterprise Content Management (or ECM) systems for a living and have an extensive background in Imaging or Document Capture.  But yet, at home I struggle to find a good way to capture important documents and keep them intelligently organized.  I have a rather nice Fujitsu fi-5120c desktop scanner, but it rarely gets used.  I tried a number of consumer-focused scanning tools in the past but none of them seemed very inspired.  I usually find that they are just too cumbersome to configure and use, even for me.  So I gave up trying for a while while and my scanner sat on the desk collecting dust.


A few months ago, while I was getting organized for tax time, I decided to fire-up the internet search engine and look again.  This time I trained my focus on a "cloud" based scanning solution.  I wanted to see who in the industry was trying to leverage online storage infrastructure to store scanned documents.  Well, I found one service in particular that seemed to be doing just that and they have a nice desktop scanning tool as well.  The service is called OfficeDrop.

Make dialing conference calls on a Blackberry easier with this simple trick

I am a Virtual Employee and that means I spend a lot of time on the phone in conference calls.  I often dial into those calls on my company-issued Blackberry Curve.  Dialing conference calls on a Blackberry can be annoying because once you call the conference call number you also have to enter some sort of passcode.  I usually forget the passcode and have to go look it up.  But when you are on-the-go that can be hard to do in the amount of time the conference call allows you to enter the number.  I found a simple little trick that makes dialing conference calls on a Blackberry much easier.

**Exclusive First Look** at the ILINX Tablet!

At the Nexus ECM 2010 conference in Bellevue, WA Shadrach White (Twitter: @shadrachwhite), CTO of ImageSource Inc, announced the ILINX Tablet.  It is an Intel based tablet running Windows7 that is aimed squarely at business users.  


ImageSource is a leading Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solutions provider and software company so this announcement will certainly get people talking.As an ECM professional and avid Apple iPad user myself, I was quite shocked today at Shad's keynote presentation.  I am also very excited about the concept and I think it takes a lot of guts for this company to dive head first into the business tablet market.  There is something to be said about being first and that is certainly one goal of ImageSource with this product.