Ismael Ghalimi of IT|Redux fame and producer of the Office 2.0 Conference emailed me with a $100 discount for any GearFire readers wishing to attend this year. The conference runs in San Francisco from September 3-5. This year’s theme is enterprise adoption and the opening keynote will be given by David Allen with other notable speakers including Robert Scoble.

The Office 2.0 Conference is a collective experiment organized every year in San Francisco, CA and aimed at discovering the future of online productivity & collaboration. It is a unique gathering of visionaries, thought leaders, and customers using innovative online services for getting things done at the office, at home, and on the go. Please register before August 31st to benefit from the online rate. All paying attendees get an HP 2133 Mini-Note PC.

University starts on September 2nd and I won’t be able to attend myself, but for any readers in attendance, feel free to provide us with a trip report.

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The new academic year is approaching, and so I thought I would write a back to school guide. However; a few weeks ago, I found a post that I don’t think I could beat for useful back to school advice. The post is “Back to School Advice You Won’t Find in Your Freshman Handbook” on Cal Continue Reading…

Wow. Can you believe the summer is almost over? What did you do? Did you travel? (I spent the whole summer in Nigeria. It was interesting both in a good and a bad way.) Did you sleep in? Or did you stay up late every night catching up on all those exciting infomercials you missed during the school year? Continue Reading…

Although at GearFire we pride ourselves in being the content, not just a way of getting to the content, I found something that I could not resist sharing with you, it is a “manifesto” on ChangeThis about presentation skills called:
“Presentation Revolution: Changing the Way the World Does Presentations”

The idea of ChangeThis is to circulate ideas that challenge what is Continue Reading…

I would like to thank Bloggy Award for their recent review of GearFire. Bloggy Award review blogs of all topics and every month award some of the best blogs they have seen with either a gold or silver award.

For anyone joining us from Bloggy Award website, welcome to the site! If your looking for where to start, our sidebar Continue Reading…

Q10 is a minimalistic word processor. By minimalistic, I mean it strongly resembles a type writer, with a few added extras such as word counts, timers and editing.

The twist to this piece of software is that it works in full screen, in addition to being simple. This makes it great for when you just cannot focus, it’s designed not Continue Reading…

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Back to school is looming, and some of you will be going back to start your A-Levels. You may have heard what you may think to be rumors of it being possible to be able to get a new A star grade at A-Level, this post should help de-mystify what this is.
Who can get an A* at Continue Reading…

Like a lot of high school and college students, I’m really dependant on my computer; for researching and writing, chatting with my friends, keeping up with the news, and some general goofing off of course (who hasn’t wasted 3 hours doing random stuff on Facebook?). Being as I spend so much time glued to my laptop, I’ve taken it Continue Reading…