Alex Nichols is an entrepreneur, IT consultant, and marketing consultant. He founded Take A Tee, a t-shirt company that sells tech-themed shirts. He also runs a small IT/marketing consulting firm named Nichols Consulting.
Welcome to the Apple Microsoft store.
Microsoft opened their first “Microsoft store” on October 22nd. As you can see in the embedded video above, it is a blatant ripoff of Apple stores. The tables used to display the computers are identical to those used in Apple Stores. The layout of the store is the exact same as well. Microsoft even set [...]
Exposé on the iPhone with Orbit.app
My good friend Steven Troughton-Smith has been working on an extremely cool project for the last few days. He has written an application named Orbit,that brings an Exposé like feature to the iPhone. It makes it super easy to move to a certain page of applications very quickly! It is especially helpful if you have [...]
Early Espresso
The first episode of the new podcast I am working on with Daniel Brusilovsky, Mark Bao, and Christian Owens was released today. The podcast is called “Early Espresso” and is about technology and entrepreneurship. You can learn more about the episode on the Early Espresso Website! Sadly, I could not be on this episode because [...]
The worst twitter client ever? I think so.
Say hello to ChillTwit (iTunes link), the ugliest and most useless twitter client on the app store!
I have used a lot of iPhone apps since the App Store was launched in July of 2008, and this is by far the worst application I have ever tried. The interface is atrocious, there are missing features, [...]
Why I hate Microsoft.
Today at work, I was setting up a few Windows machines. One of the windows product keys didn’t work. After checking thoroughly to make sure there were no typos, I decided to call Microsoft Support.
After a few minutes of waiting, I was greeted by an Indian man with such a heavy accent that I could [...]
Launch Giveaway
I see you have found your way onto my new blog! I will be giving away 1 “It’s Cloudy” shirt from Take A Tee to a random person that comments on this post! I will pick a winner on October 15th! Make sure to leave a comment for your chance to win!
UPDATE: The winner of [...]