Andrew Maxwell

Web designer in Portland, Oregon

Entries for the ‘Problem’ Category

Better Access To The Evernote Trunk on Mobile Phones, iPad and Netbooks

Recently Evernote came out with a great feature called the “Trunk”. This feature is basically an app store for Evernote. Well if you have an iPad, mobile phone, netbook or any other kind of mobile device you probably can’t get access to the Trunk, or if you can it is limited due to the size [...]

Communication: A Must For Any Website

Being a web developer I use many websites on a daily basis, some for my social needs like Google Buzz, Twitter, Facebook and even Youtube and others for News, like Google Reader, NY Times and the local TV news. What do these sites have in common? Almost all of them have no way for a [...]

Saving Your Receipts For Tax Time, Using Evernote

Since I run my own freelance business from home I have to be very careful with all of my receipts to make sure that I am good when it comes to tax season.

The Proper Way to Repost on Google Buzz

I started using Google Buzz about a month ago and from the very beginning I wanted to share articles with other readers. Sometimes the articles I wanted to share would only show up in my Buzz stream. Google Buzz is still new so there is no standard way to repost an article, since there is [...]

Social Media Anxiety

With the rise of social media and live content comes to the rise of what I like to call “Social Media Anxiety”. I personally read blogs, websites and Twitter each and everyday. Some days I can read well over 100 blog posts and thousands of Twitter posts when there is a new web tool, international [...]

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?

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.

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 [...]

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% [...]