http://brianburnham.com Professional, Author, MacMerc Sun, 14 Oct 2007 00:52:54 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en You've reached the home of Brian Burnham. Most of you probably know me as an author and reviewer for MacMerc.com where I write a weekly feature on free software for the Mac, Freeloader Friday, and a series on unique applications of Apple's Mac mini, Mini Media Mac. I've been a Mac ... http://brianburnham.com/archive/2006/02/11/welcome I'm a busy guy (hence the lack of updates recently). I don't have a lot of time for recreational browsing - my time is spent writing/emailing or researching.Just this week I found a site that totally sucked me in. It was the first time in recent memory I had burned ... http://brianburnham.com/archive/2005/12/14/yahoo-the-web-is-fun-again Most of the attention offered the next step in web evolution is focued on websites. And rightly (or should I say Writely) so. New browser-based services are moving us from our PC's to our Browsers. But that is only the top layer of the new Web 2.0 OS.Services may come ... http://brianburnham.com/archive/2005/11/19/peeling-back-the-layers-of-web-20 If you read my last Freeloader Friday, you noticed that I have noticed a few budding task management applications. There are some cool new ones that show Web 2.0 promise. But, after all my research I still came back hungry. And, after going over my expectations, I found out that maybe ... http://brianburnham.com/archive/2005/11/11/the-trouble-with-to-dos Timing is everything, and as Microsoft prepares to release a new version of Office, old and new foes are making the overpriced, outdated suite a hard-sell. OpenOffice.org is finally interesting. The Mac version is actually almost on-par with the Windows and Linux versions. The suites interface and features are standard on ... http://brianburnham.com/archive/2005/10/27/microsoft-office-is-dead-long-live-office