Blake Perdue - Website & app reviews, and technology & startup commentary
Apple Magic Mouse: I Love It, I Hate It
I received a nice little package in the mail today. Yes, little. The mouse came not in a box but a tiny case. I like that Apple is trying to reduce the amount of packaging it uses. After a full day of using Apple’s new Magic Mouse, I can definitely say I love it and I hate it.
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What Do You Do?
People often ask me that question. And it’s a question I don’t have an answer to. It’s been almost four months since I got my MBA from Georgia Tech and I still don’t have a job in the conventional sense.
During school, I struggled with what to do, what company to work for, what industry to be in. I felt pressured and pushed in different directions. I looked at a lot of interesting options. Got six figure offers from big name companies. But I never felt pulled towards something.
The New ATDC
ATDC is scuttling its application process, where startups went through a months long application and screening process, and instead adopting a more open model. Want to be an ATDC company? The only requirement is that you are a technology startup. That’s it.
DIY Whiteboard
I love whiteboards. They are an essential tool for explaining an idea or running a brainstorming session. Drawing an idea helps me better understand my thinking. We have whiteboards in every meeting room at the ATDC, which are constantly used by our startups.
Working At Kinetic Ventures
I am very pleased to announce that I will be working part-time at Kinetic Ventures during my last semester in business school. Kinetic Ventures, which has offices in Atlanta and D.C., is a leading venture capital investor in communications, information and power/clean technology driven businesses.
Faster Search Using Bookmarks
There are a handful of websites, like Amazon and IMDB, that I constantly look things up on. If you want to know what rating a movie has on IMDB, you go to your browser address bar, type www.imdb.com, wait for the homepage to load, enter the movie name and click search. This is a 3 step process that can be reduced to 1 using a bookmark.
Who Designed That Site?
When browsing the web, I often come across sites that are extremely well designed. Naturally, I want to know who built the sites that capture my attention. However, unless the design firm puts a “designed by …” link on the page, there’s no way to know who designed or built a site. That’s why I’m suggesting web design shops make use of the designer meta tag.
App Review: SQLEditor
An integral part of build any web app is database design. Creating the right tables, fields and relationships you need to store and control the app’s data can be a difficult task. Enter SQLEditor, a database design app for Mac OS. For PC users, I hear MySQL Workbench is quite good.
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