Andrew Maxwell

Web designer in Portland, Oregon

Entries for 2009

Favorite Tweets from December 2009

12/31/09 @RichardShepherd: Well my code validates. It’s not my fault if yours doesn’t… @jamis: unsettling thought: “bread is alive until you cook it”. baking is murder!

Sharing my inspiration

Over the years I have collected some artwork and websites that I find inspirational and before these items were only on my computer. This was fine for the first 50-100 pieces but now this stock pile of artwork is into the 800+ items and I needed a easier way to search through them. I needed [...]

New Posterous medium blog

I have a very busy schedule working two full time jobs but I want to be able to share my thoughts and experience when ever possible. I know many people are in a similar boat that I am as they try to get their freelance career off the ground and I want to help with [...]

Tools to run a business with the cloud

This past year I have been getting busier and the amount of work that I have, has more then doubled. I needed to come up with a solution that would allow me to manage my daily tasks of running a web business and having to be at multiple places.

Technology for Education

One of my passions is to bring technology to the class room, giving each student the same opportunity to succeed. After I posted my article on 100 Different Evernote Uses I had the website connectedadmin.com write about Evernote and then link to my article.

Free time to Surf the web

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how I and many others like myself don’t get to play around and simply surf the web like we want or need. So I asked my self this simple question: “Why Not?”

Augmented Reality – Where do you think it will be used?

I love helping people in anyway that I can and recently I have signed up to use a service called Aarvark. Here is a description of Aardvark directly form their site: “Aardvark was conceived as the first Social Search engine: a way to find people, not web pages, that have specific information.” Yesterday I was [...]

Do you post to Twitter where ever you are?

A few months ago in when I first started to get into Twitter and I started to notice that some people post almost a steady stream of tweets all day. So it made me think, do these people have lives? Do they even tweet while they are using the bathroom? So I started to make [...]

Windows 7 Backup Success

Last night at about 10pm I was finally able to make my first successful backup using Window 7′s built in backup software.  After over two months and dozens of different methods that people suggested it came down the the simplest solution. In one of my previous posts Backing up with Windows 7 I showed the [...]

100 Different Evernote Uses

Take a photo of your contacts measurements and save them to your personal notebook. Makes ordering your next pair easier. Take a photo of the page you are reading in a book and use @evernote to make your notes, keeping your book pages clean keep your web bookmarks in Evernote, then add screenshots to help [...]