Andrew Maxwell

Web designer in Portland, Oregon

Entries for the ‘Technology’ Category

Getting Focused At Work

Since I started to do freelance full time I have noticed that I can easily get distracted by simple things, like checking social media sites, reading emails, writing emails, switching projects and before it became a habit I wanted to stop it, and make sure that I am focused.

How to turn your iPad into a powerful computer on the go

Right now many people are complaining that the iPad is just a large iPod touch and that it does little more then the iPod. However after taking a look at the processor and the capabilities I can see a easy way to turn your iPad into a powerful mobile machine.

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 [...]

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 [...]

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.

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 [...]