Almost Perfect – Pete Peterson

Boy, what a trip down memory lane. It’s amazing to me WordPerfect made it as far as it did. They had no management experience, no structure, no advertising or marketing savvy, and did everything in a shoot from the hip mentality. They were more lucky than good. And for a word processing company they had nothing written down. They had no guidelines, no mission statement, no rules, no business plan, no handbook of any sort. They didn’t write down any notes and had meetings where "Pete" expounded his philosophy because no one knew what the company did. It has some interesting management philosophy, preferring to keep a flat structure rather than layer upon layer of management. But it was also interesting to remember all the word processors from back in the day. Word was but a babe, Lotus had Ami Pro, there was Wordstar, AppleWriter and dozens and dozens of little startups. It was the wild west, but WordPerfect became […]

Crime City Update

I bought of the Gobble Gobble Buffet buildings and have them at level 7 and level 5 (currently updating to 6). My Haunted Mansions are both at Level 7 and I’ll finish those upgrades when I finish all that Gobble Gobble action. These buildings are expensive, but they do crank out the cash. I wonder what the Christmas building will be? And what the hell is the deal with Amazon and all these lame ass deals for Cyber Monday?

Norton Internet Security 3 User – $16.99

I’m pretty disappointed with the Cyber Monday sales so far. Cost of hard drives went up that’s for sure. There have been a couple of bargains, but honestly, nothing spectacular. I did pick up a new copy of Corel Paint Shop Pro X5, so that was good. Adobe has Lightroom and Elements on sale which is nice. If I needed a monitor I would be in good shape. But as far as cameras and drives go, the sales are lame. But here’s something. Cyber Monday, one day only. This is the 3PC, 2013 version. Not a bad price at all! $16.99 for the boxed version. Norton Internet Security 3 User

Outline+ – OneNote notebooks on your iPad. Syncs with Dropbox, Box.com is now $0.99.

I don’t know anything about this app except it works like and sync with OneNote. That for me is worth the $0.99 price tag. It has the tabs and sections like OneNote and works with 2007 and 2010. It can read 2003 files as well. I’ll be giving this a through once over, but right now the price has dropped from $14.99 to $0.99 for Black Friday, so you better jump! Outline+ – OneNote notebooks on your iPad. Syncs with Dropbox, Box.com is now $0.99.

40% off for Crime City and tons of apps for sale

Well Damn! Apple and iTunes know how to have a sale! There are hundreds of apps that have hit the 99 cent mark. EA is blowing out everything except Need for Speed Most Wanted, which is the only game I want. There are tons of other deals out there too. Lots of nice utilities are dropping in price so great time to browse. But the big thing is 40% off for Crime City. I’m going to have to buy some gold. I’m still playing this game on a daily basis so it’s worth throwing out a couple dollars. Plus, they have the Gobble Gobble Buffet, which is a horrible name, but cool building. And seriously, who doesn’t want a building with a giant turkey on it? They upgrade nice and fast so let’s see how far I can take them.