Andrew Maxwell

Web designer in Portland, Oregon

Entries for November, 2009

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.
I read their article “Evernote – Your brain on the web” and [...]

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?”
After giving it a thought for a while I came up with this simple list of reason [...]

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 kick start [...]

Backing up with Windows 7

For the past month or so I have been having troubles backing up my computer using Windows 7’s built in backup and restore utility as some of you already know. After cleaning up my 1TB drive I have gotten the backup to go as far as 97% without a problem, Once it hits the 97% [...]

Sharing my Bookmarks

I use the web everyday as a web developer, usually working at one of my two jobs or posting on twitter. I tend to come across many useful websites which I save for later and I wanted to share them with everyone else. Currently I use Evernote to store all of my bookmarks because it [...]

As of 7:17am This morning.

As of 7:17am this morning I finally got my Google Wave invites to share. After waiting months for my own invite I thought that it would be nice to share my invites as soon as I got them. So that first thing I did was ask Twitter if anyone needed an invite, and within minutes [...]

New Blog/Personal Site

Hello everyone,
As some of you may know I have been very busy lately working two jobs, one of which is my own freelance company Heka Interactive. Well I figured it was time to create my own personal website which will allow me to post of my sketches, pictures from trips, new website designs, etc…. Basically [...]