No matter which way you look at it, social media and social networking are completely changing how people interact with their world and those around them. While there are a lot of growing pains that will take place, I believe that eventually most or all businesses (including sports organizations and even traditional media) will have to embrace and use social media to increase the overall engagement of their customers, clients, and fans.

Using social media sites like Facebook, MySpace, and even personal blogs can be fun and keep you connected with friends and family. If you are not careful with how you use them, though, they could cost you your job!

In a study that Careerbuilder.com conducted in September 2008, it was found that 1 in 5 hiring managers conduct some sort of social networking search before deciding on a candidate. With the likelihood that this trend will only continue, it becomes very important that you manage your personal brand online.

A fun little application inside of Apple Terminal to listen to your problems.

Acting quickly during a potential PR nightmare because of social media is important. How should it be done and what ways provide the best result?

Troubleshooting disappearing hard drive icons in Apple Finder and on the Desktop.

It doesn’t matter if you keep them away from water, never put them in bright light, and no matter how much they cry, no matter how much they beg, you never feed them after midnight…every great now and then, usually when you’re under the gun of a hot deadline, the little Mac gremlins like to pop up to wreck their havoc. One of the things that has happened to me is you go to open Final Cut Pro and all you are rewarded with is a bouncing icon in the Dock with application refusing to open. When this happens, your only solution isn’t to delete and reinstall as there are a few quick things to check first that might just save you the headache.

As Apple market share grows, “Mac Addicts” rejoice… so might hackers.

My wife and I purchased our first house back in October of 2008. After we moved in, there were a lot of things that we ‘wish we had known’. I’ve compiled what I think are the top twelve points of info that would have been really helpful to us before we purchased the house.