Tools and Trade Secrets for Aspiring Writers
In my last post, I recommended keeping all registration information regarding your downloaded software in a “Reference” folder in a web-based email program and in the program SoftCAT. Here are two more ways to gather the essential information you will wish to have at hand in the event of a hard disk crash.
At the [...]
Website Giveaway of the Day has a free offering today that may be of interest to you: All My Books makes it easy to build an informative list of your personal library and to track where your “loaners” are. Just enter in the database the book’s ISBN number, and the software automatically gathers [...]
Steve Ballmer, the CEO of Mcrosoft, has created a bit of a firestorm over at the Washington Post. His contention that print will be dead within a decade has stirred quite a debate.
Writers and publishers can take some solace in the ongoing poll, which as I write this, is running about 4 to 1 [...]
I’ve already written about some new lessons I’ve learned from my recent hard disk crash regarding backup procedures. There were other lessons.
As I scrambled to gather essential information from my dying hard disk that would help me set up a new one, I realized how important it is to know the details of your [...]
My good friend Dustin Wax over at The Writer’s Technology Companion has recently completed an informative 5-part series on Podcasting. It’s worth checking out: podcasting can be a useful approach to sharing and marketing your writing.
Dustin points to the freeware Audacity as a principal tool. I agree wholeheartedly. The software deserves [...]
Again, super blog TechCrunch is breaking the news: Acrobat has taken some bold new steps to increase its exposure to writers.
With its new website [still in beta apparently], Acrobat makes its online word processor Buzzword [which we've mentioned in previous posts -- just do a search] even more accessible. There are other online [...]
Finally, I have something to share with Mac and Apple users. TechCrunch has written a piece about backup facilities, both onboard and online, for Mac users. Check it out HERE,
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The last weekend of May always sees the major book event Book Expo America. It draws readers, as well as publishing professionals. This year it was held in Los Angeles.
Thanks to my friend Ginger, I’ve just read the New York Times account of this year’s event. The E-book, and particularly the “Kindle [...]
I received a question this morning from newsman Rick Smith that I cannot answer. Certainly, some among our readership of several hundred writers can shed some light on it:
Tom,
How does Dragon Naturally Speaking work when you tape record an assortment of different people? Can the software turn that into copy pretty well, or is [...]