This version is great! Hey, if you miss shooting you might want to checkout Lost Planet. But if you want the next best thing to owning a Wii then this game is pure fun and great physical exercise! I lost 10 pounds in 2 weeks I played it!
More than 65 songs, including songs and dance remixes Xbox 360 exclusive
How To Play, Trial and Super Easy modes
Workout Mode, Edit Mode, Quest Mode, Party Mode and more!
Xbox Live enabled online competitions and downloads
A Conversation about Higher Consciousness and the Evolution of the Human Brain with Gopi Krishna author of several books on Kundalini including “Kundalini: The Evolutionary Energy in Man” (an amazing spiritual biography).
Michael Port in Book Yourself Solid delivers a fantastic guide for anyone in business that wants to have a solid, reliable business. This book is particularly useful for people in sales and in the consulting business. From the very beginning of the book he describes the foundation necessary to build a successful practice and “Book Yourself Solid”.
“Choose your ideal clients so you work only with people who inspire and energize you.” This idea goes counter to the shotgun approach. I have used this “sniper” approach and it has work well for my business.
“Understand why people buy what you are selling” In other words do your homework. Many businesspeople assume they know the triggers that motivate their customers to purchase their product and as a result mismanage marketing dollars and never achieve excellence.
“Develop a personal brand so you’re memorable and unique.”
“Talk about what you do without sounding confusing or bland.” Be specific so that people can immediately ascertain whether or not they can use your services.
Michael Port covers how to get referrals, how to network effectively and how to write and speak with high impact. The chapter on the sales cycle is worth rereading.I am sure small businesses will greatly benefit from this book and find it a productive investment of their time, as well.Enjoy!
The Business of Software What Every Manager, Programmer, and Entrepreneur Must Know to Thrive and Survive in Good Times and Bad by Michael A. Cusumano presents a solid overview of the software business appropriate for software managers and entrepreneurs:
Do you want to be mainly a Products company, or a Services company?
Do you want to sell to Individuals, or Enterprises | Mass market, or Niche market?
How horizontal (broad) or vertical (specialized)is your product or service?
Can you generate a recurring revenue stream that will endure both good and bad times?
Will you target mainstream customers, or do you have a plan to avoid the chasm?
Do you plan on being a Leader, Follower, or Complementor?
What kind of character do you want your company to have?
Case studies
Software Entrepreneurship:
Strong management team
Compelling new product, service, or hybrid solution
Strong evidence of customer interest
An attractive market
A plan to overcome the credibility gap
Business model showing early growth and profit potential
Ecto is a feature-rich desktop blogging client for MacOSX and Windows, supporting a wide range of weblog systems, such as Blogger, Blojsom, Drupal, MovableType, Nucleus, TypePad, WordPress, and more.With ecto you can write and manage entries for your weblog(s). The advantage over using your weblog’s control panel is that you can compose entries offline and use the extra features ecto offers, such as spellcheck, creating links, attachments, and much more. ecto is designed to make blogging much more easier and yet give the users as much power as possible to manage their weblogs.download ecto
Even today, Cluetrain Menifesto is still a very important business book and when it was written, it was ahead of it’s time.It has 95 Theses. A few favorites include:Markets are conversations.Markets consist of human beings, not demographic sectors.Elvis said it best: “We can’t go on together with suspicious minds.”Companies that do not belong to a community of discourse will die.You’re too busy “doing business” to answer our email? Oh gosh, sorry, gee, we’ll come back later. Maybe.You want us to pay? We want you to pay attention.Don’t worry, you can still make money. That is, as long as it’s not the only thing on your mind.We are waking up and linking to each other. We are watching. But we are not waiting.The Cluetrain Manifesto: The End of Business as Usual @ Amazon.By Christopher Locke, Rick Levine, Doc Searls, David Weinberger. Available at Amazon
Cyberduck is a open source, robust FTP/FTP-TLS/SFTP browser for the Mac whose lack of visual clutter and cleverly intuitive features make it easy to use. Support for external editors and system technologies such as Spotlight, Bonjour, Keychain and AppleScript are built-in.download Cyberduck
Do you have an intel Mac? This is a tool I can’t live without! I boot my Mac into normal OSX. When I need a Windows only application, I can run Parallels and access all my Windows applications at the same time!You can also run Linux, FreeBSD. Check it out, this is a must buy for all Mac intel users!
