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November is Product Sample Give-Away - Ergonomic Mice
This November we’re giving away product samples at LitCentral Founders’ Blog. Throughout the year we conduct numerous product reviews for some of the finest tech products on the market. Our goody box is piling up with product samples, and the season for giving is fast approaching. The product samples have been used for testing purposes, but are in excellent condition. Items include ergonomic mice, laptop bags/backpacks, Field Notes and an OtterBox BlackBerry Tour case.
It’s as easy as 1 - 2 - 3 to win. Here’s what you need to do to enter:
2) In the Message field write THREE ideas for future blog articles, focusing
3) Include in the Message field your name, email and state location.
(Winners will be contacted by email.)
This week we’ll be giving away two ergonomic mice - a Humanscale Switch Mouse and a Contour Design RollerMouse free. To learn more about the bags, click on the linked photo above.
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November is Product Sample Give-a-Way Month at LitCentral Founders’ Blog
This November we’re giving away product samples at LitCentral Founders’ Blog. Throughout the year we conduct numerous product reviews for some of the finest tech products on the market. Our goody box is piling up with product samples, and the season for giving is fast approaching. The product samples have been used for testing purposes, but are in excellent condition. Items include ergonomic mice, laptop bags/backpacks, Field Notes and an OtterBox BlackBerry Tour case.
It’s as easy as 1 - 2 - 3 to win. Here’s what you need to do to enter:
2) In the Message field write THREE ideas for future blog articles, focusing
3) Include in the Message field your name, email and state location.
(Winners will be contacted by email.)
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Coffee Shops Give the Boot to Laptop Users
Just days after Barnes & Noble delighted us with free WI-FI for everyone, the Wall Street Journal reports that small coffee shops in New York and San Francisco are putting strict time restrictions on patrons with laptops. I actually understand the owners’ dilemma and here’s why…
Naider’s Coffee Shop offers free internet. In these tough economic times, folks in the neighborhood, unemployed and looking for work, have cut out their own in-house internet and are seeking out free WI-FI - and mooch wherever they can. The newly unemployed may find themselves lonely sitting at home surfing the web for employment opportunities, and would rather venture out with their laptops to do more of the same. They enter the local coffee shop and pay a couple bucks for a cup of hot java, but proceed to nurse it for hours as they surf the net. One coffee shop owner complains he’s seen folks bring their own sandwiches and tea bags and have the nerve to ask for a free cup of hot water! The regular lunch crowd has nowhere to sit and thus small coffee shops are losing business. Previously it wasn’t a problem because "the usual" crowd of laptop users were writers and the alike. But now that the unemployed have joined in and the recession crowds are pinching pennies, it’s proving to be too much for small coffee shops to handle. Some shops have covered up the electrical outlets, and others have placed limits on laptop usage. Naider’s has specific "rules of no geekd’m" between the hours of 11:00 A.M. and 2:00 P.M. weekdays.
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Barnes & Noble Now Has Free WI-FI
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Typewriter Key Coasters
I came across these typewriter key coasters while placing an order with one of my favorite online catalogs - Sundance. Each coaster is stamped with a courier font letter of your choice and encased in glass at $8 a pop (two or more $7 each). Order your favorite letter, piece together initials, or get creative and spell out something like LOVE or DREAM or QWERTY. These coasters would make the perfect gift and fit the decor of any writer.
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Mobile Smartphone Applications for Writers and Screenwriters
Following up on our article - The Benefits of a Smartphone in a Writer’s World - we have gathered together a list of smartphone applications to help you stay productive. The links below are for BlackBerry applications, but most have an alternative for Palm and Windows smartphones.
And, let’s not forget the iPhone. Do you realize there are over 50,000 iPhone and iPod applications available through the App store to date (June 2009)? It’s hard to even wrap your brain around the depth of innovation Apple has spurred by opening the pipeline to developers with one simple question in mind - If you could hold a computer in the palm of your hand, what could it do? We’ve taken some time to comb through the App Store and come up with quite a few applications that can enhance a writer’s tool belt.
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Scrabble Anyone?
It’s pretty typical that people who love to write often love to read; and people who love to read can serve up some scrabble "woopass". The Scrabble Premier Collector’s Edition from Restoration Hardware is so gorgeous your writer friend will likely dig out her old Scrabble set for routine play and reserve this collector’s edition for the well-heeled crowd. This is one of those thoughtful gifts that will never be forgotten.
Price: $169
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A Dozen Gadget Gifts for Writers
$$ = $50 - $100
$$$ = $100 - $500
$$$$ = Pfff it’s only money
1. $ Gift Certificates - Not exactly techy, but easy.
2. $$ Portable Backup Storage - Encourage writers to backup their masterpieces with portable storage.
4. $$ Ergonomic Keyboard - Try it, they may like it and improve their health at the same time. (Keep the receipt just in case)
5. $$+ Digital Voice Recorder - Often times writers dream the stories they are writing and or their imaginations become alive just before they lie down to sleep. Having a voice recorder handy helps ensure they capture the thought-on-the-spot.
6. $$+ Update Writing Software - Find out if your writer gift recipient is using the latest version of their writing software or if they’ve been wanting to try something new.
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68 Writers’ Rooms
There is an insightful article over at Guardian News and Media which has researched the working spaces of 68 famous writers. Within the article each modern writer elaborates on their choice of space, furniture and gadgets. Posthumous articles by various journalists cover the work spaces of writers such as Virginia Wolf and Rudyard Kipling. It’s interesting to see some of the geek’dm, and antiquated work spaces used by the best.
Having just posted an article myself about the best ergonomic chairs for writers, I offer Sarah Waters (Author of Tipping the Velvet) the prize for best chair. She also has several maps plastering the walls which qualify as art in my office as well. Charles Darwin’s Victorian digs surprised me, as I expected to see a bunch of dead specimens in jars and carcasses hanging from the wall.
Check out the article and see where the musings of many great writers have taken place.
Sarah Waters’ Writing Room
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