Andrew Maxwell

Web designer in Portland, Oregon

Entries for the ‘General’ Category

The automated restroom?

I personally love automated items which make our lives easier, especially ones that help with hygiene. So this got me to thinking, over the past couple of years we are seeing more automated options in the public restrooms and this made me ask the question: Why isn’t the toilet paper automated?
You have to admit, the [...]

Pros and Cons of switching to Google Chrome from Firefox

Last month I decided to give Google Chrome a try as my main browser, I wanted to see if the new browser had the tools and options I needed for website development. Since I started using Chrome I came across a list of Google Chrome extensions for website development.

Below you will find the pro’s and [...]

Logmein.com in Google Chrome

I am trying out Logmein.com inside of Google Chrome and so far it is pretty nice, the quality is what you would expect from Logmein.com. The upside to logmein.com in Google Chrome is that is doesn’t require any plugin like the firefox version does, which is something that I have been really into lately. On [...]

My thoughts on this Conan O’Brien NBC issue

Over the past couple of weeks many have been talking about the change that is happening on NBC’s late night lineup. I personally think it is pretty low what NBC is doing just to keep Jay Leno. Jay Leno had a great run on the Tonight Show and the show was rightfully handed over to [...]

Will Google replace Apple after Steve jobs is gone?

The past few years haven’t been the best for the legend Steve Jobs. He has been fighting pancreatic cancer and due to the cancer he has taken some time off to heal. While taking his time to heal it left many people wondering “What will happen to Apple once Steve Jobs is gone?”. No one [...]

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.
Here are some of the problems that I [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]