Where We Are Going: 2008 Predictions
Hooray for 2008 and I hope your year is joyous and not yet bloody!
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Daring David Pogue
We just finished writing the Google Apps Administrator Guide for Thomson Publishing and we are now Daring David Pogue. We have composed the following missive to the master Mac author:
Dear David Pogue:
We are daring you — actually, DOUBLE SECRET daring you (and when “we” say dare we mean “I’ but there is more power in the collective imagination) — to ignore us.
We are coming at you — hard and heavy in all your safe places and in The New York Times Square tower — by writing two new Apple books for Thomson/Cengage Publishing due to hit international bookshelves soon:
Picture Yourself Learning Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
and
Picture Yourself Learning Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac
We are hungry. We are dedicated. We are fast. We will outlive you!
Thank you.
Sincerely,
David W. Boles (aka “The WordPunk“) Boles Books Writing and Publishing http://BolesBooks.com
NOTE: We have yet to actually send that note directly to Mr. Pogue for we are in fear of appearing ungrateful and inappropriate in the light of our ongoing love of his previously hard-won books on the Mac OS and Apple.
P.S.: We also mention here and now we are writing another new book for Thomson called Picture Yourself Learning American Sign Language, Level 1 and it includes a Bonus DVD for learning the signs and phrases. Janna M. Sweenie is once again our co-author after our raging success writing Hand Jive: American Sign Language for Real Life together.
Writing Four Books in Five Months
It has been a wild week and I am pleased to announce I will be writing three 
new books for Thomson/Cengage Publishing.
I recently finished my Google Apps Administrator Guide book for Thomson and we are now doing three more books together.
Two books will be published before the end of 2007 — that means I will have written four books in five months for Thomson and while that is a witty and wacky writing pace, that’s the publishing business: You’re either wanted now — RIGHT NOW! — or you suffer in silence.
The Empty Syringe: No Mail for You!
If you are reading this I know you are an email addict.
You live for the ping. You crave the pop-up notification. Your hands sweat just a little as you open a waiting communique.
How often do you check for new email?
Every day? Twice a day? Every hour? Every five minutes?
I have friends at Microsoft who — a decade ago before it was fashionable to be “always on” and “forever in touch” — set their email program to check for new mail messages every sixty seconds.
That behavior was disturbing then — and quaint now.
My how time and tide have changed!
Those who own BlackBerry devices have “real time” email where your BlackBerry tickles — and gets tickled back — checking for new messages all day every day every second of the day: The instant new mail arrives you are notified.
How many email accounts do you regularly check a day? I am currently using 15 separate email accounts.
My previous high a few years ago was 25. I manage all my accounts online via Google Apps for Your Domain Premier Edition: a 10 gig email store is an addict’s syringe!
Do you use an email program to download your mail or do you strictly use a web interface to interact with your email?
Google Apps for Your Domain Premier Edition Review
Today Google announced the Premier Edition of their fine Google Apps bundle of programs aimed directly at the heart of Microsoft’s Office suite of applications.
I love Google Apps so much I’m writing a book about it for Thomson Publishing called Google Apps Administrator Guide. We have discussed Google’s plans for World Domination in helping you collaborate on the Internet and the Premier Edition of Google Apps for Your Domain is the next step in working together in new and spectacular ways. Here’s what the new Dashboard looks like:
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