Jon Norris | Review,Technology
When Google debuted their Chrome operating system, there was lots of excitement about the prospect of a web-only OS. You could do away with pesky updates, niggling security worries and annoying software installations and fully embrace the web, at the same time benefiting from the increased speed that a virtually non-existent OS brings.
Rather than coming from a dawdling consultant, or ghostwritten on behalf of a high-flying CEO, the author Daniel Priestly actively practises what he preaches, putting on seminars which are attended by entrepreneurs in their hundreds. His opening gambit – “I arrived in the UK with nothing more than a suitcase and a credit card” – may seem a little cheesy, but indulge him for a while and you’ll most likely find something useful in this book.
Car ownership can be tricky at the best of times. Unless you’re a taxi driver or some kind of roving consultant, your car will most likely spend 90% of its time gathering bird excrement in your driveway. With fuel prices on the up, and remote working becoming more and more the norm, renting a car as and when you need it seems like an increasingly sensible option.
Jon Norris | Review,Technology
As you may have noticed, Microsoft is currently in the midst of some quite pronounced marketing gesticulations to promote their new cloud-enabled productivity suite, Office 365. Aimed squarely at the droves of Office users fleeing the good ship Microsoft in Google’s direction, Office 365 purports to have brought the functionality of Microsoft’s world-beating Office software to the web.
Brilliant Freelancer is, at it’s heart, a self-help book. This instantly made me concerned – not because I dislike the idea of people helping themselves, but because I’m a fairly self-conscious fellow and I like to do most of my reading on the train.
Jon Norris | Review,Technology
Have you checked a calendar recently? It’s 2011 – officially the future. Where are the jetpacks? Why can’t I eat my lunch in pill form? Lots of the magical technologies we were promised as children have failed to materialise, however one of the few technologies that has mode it from the screen to our sweaty palms in wireless charging.
Written by Chris Barling, CEO of popular ecommerce software provider Actinic, Selling Successfully Online is an updated version of a previous work by Barling, which only featured around 120 Top Tips. Obviously since the first edition Barling and Actinic have learnt a few new tricks, adding 200 new snippets to the latest version.
We first took a look at Receipt Bank, or Receipt Farm as it was then known, about a year ago. Still in it’s infancy, the service nonetheless offered an invaluable service for freelancers who generate a lot of receipts and need to claim back those all-important expenses.
There are some things in life that are designed to make you feel happy: candyfloss, Christmas Trees, people falling over. This book is one of those things. Yes, it’s a bit contrived. And yes, it’s fairly superficial. But if you’re reading this book as an exercise in cheering yourself up on a rainy Sunday afternoon, then it will undoubtedly work.
OpenSpace is co-operatively run co-working office facility in Manchester. It offers comparatively cheap, flexible office space in a creative, friendly atmosphere. The co-operative was formed in 2007 when a group of like-minded freelancers and small businesses discovered that they were all facing similar issues
I just want to say upfront that I am a super macho guy. I have a moustache, I arm-wrestle bears and I can yodel to a semi-professional level. Why am I telling you this? Well I wanted to make sure you knew that I was comfortable enough with my rugged manliness to review the latest lime green man-bag from be.ez.
Martha Retallick has written an honestly useful, if Americanised, guide to expanding your business contacts. I won’t lie to you, the basic suggestion herein is to cold call people and the suggestions are orientated toward how best not to become a crumpled husk of your former optimistic self. However the advice is useful and backed up with good examples and techniques.
In a nutshell this is a book about communication and how not to do it. As a particularly blunt and tactless individual I thought this might help me temper my natural desire to be right all the time…. but it has not (apparently). Persuasion is a generally interesting book but it is purely for those people who like the self help genre and does not stray from the core readership market or attempt to engage the business reader.
