Nvidia Corp. managed to rein in its fiscal second-quarter loss after the graphics-chip maker’s product line-up experienced a significant recovery from where it had been coming into this quarter. Although the loss marked its fourth loss in the last five quarters, Nvidia’s results still managed to top analyst expectations and gave the company more confidence in drafting its estimate for the current quarter.
 
Following the results, Nvidia’s shares jumped to $14.25 in after-hours trading, an increase of 8.6 percent. The company’s stock reached a four-year low last November but has managed to nearly double in value since then, reflecting the dramatic …read more

Many small solo business owners I know run their businesses from a laptop.  If  you don’t have employees and you work from home, or on the road, why not? With the availability of wireless communications and the computer power of laptops,  you can do just about anything with a laptop that you can do with a PC.
Benefits of Running Your Business on a Laptop
It is convenient, easy to transport from room to room or from home to office.  Everything is in one place, so you don’t have to switch files back and forth.  You know your software is compatible, because …read more

Contract Worker has a post called 6 Weeks to a Better, Stronger, More Energetic You. Rico is going back to doing push ups – a particular form of exercise I really have no interest in at all, but it did get me thinking about physical fitness.
First, I applaud Rico and anyone who is doing anything to improve their physical fitness. We are animals, after all, and we function best when we move a lot.
Writers, of course, tend to sit around a lot, at a keyboard, maybe moving their fingers… I know – that’s what I do the most of. …read more

Arghhhhhh!
Last week I drafted another sample chapter for a client who is having trouble deciding exactly what they want in the book I’m ghosting. At least I’m 99% sure I did, but somehow I didn’t save it. I ended up emailing the original sample of that style, which she and her adviser had seen before. They wondered why I sent it and I wondered why I hadn’t heard anything one way or the other.
Makes me slightly crazy, or think I am. And yes, I know it happens to everyone once in a while, and yes, it hasn’t happened to me …read more

It’s far from the end of the world, but I had just finished printing out some 96 pages of an edit from a ghostwriting client when the phone rang, and sure enough, it was his secretary telling me another version was coming. It’s arrived, and when I get back from buying more paper, I’ll print it out.
Write well and often,

Two newsletters:
Abundant Freelance Writing – a resource for freelance writers including 3x a week job postings.
Writing With Vision – for those who want to get a book written.

I have a vague memory of hearing long ago that computers would be come like appliances. I suppose that’s like the promise made even longer ago that we’d all have paperless offices.
These thoughts come because the Logictech Trackball I use rather than a mouse started acting strangely today. I couldn’t scroll reliably, nor could I move cards in solitaire. Of course, I wasn’t sure it was the trackball, but everything else seemed fine and since they cost less than $25 it seemed worth a try. Which meant a trip to the store, etc. etc. etc.
Sure enough, that solved the problem, …read more

We freelance writers and editors tend to spend hours and hours at our computers… we have to, but there are ways to do it in a healthy manner.
RealMuscleOnline.com started a two-part series today called Blogger Health – Health Sins Computer Users Should Avoid. Although aimed at bloggers the excellent suggestions there work well for any writer or editor.
Write well and often,

Subscribe to Abundant Writing News

I bought my first computer, an Apple II+ back in the ‘80s I think it was. It had to be specially ordered because I wanted to run WordStar, an early word processing program, and that required… oh never mind. No hard drive, just two floppy’s. It took me two weeks to figure out how to get a sentence from the screen to the printer. But it checked my spelling!
I used DOS, the precursor to Windoz (my only curse in the world is “May Bill Gates and his wife be using his software) and still miss command lines once and awhile …read more

The internet has thoroughly spoiled me. I send files as attachments to my clients and they send edited, commented versions back to me. It’s become so routine I forget not everyone knows how to do this.
A client recently sent me a word file that was 11 pages of little squares… don’t you hate it when that happens? Of course, it’s impossible for me to tell in San Diego what went wrong on the east coast. I remembered my client has a teenage son. A brief discussion with him and I expect the file to arrive in a couple of …read more

It’s almost time to replace my computer. And, as usual, I’m both looking forward to it and dreading it.
How do I know it’s getting time? Because, as a Windoz user, no matter how often I clean up my disk, defrag and all those tricks, it’s slowing down… and my relatively new flat screen moniter is starting to drop out some colors… I understand that’s typical.
Choosing technology is always kinda fun and I’m debating about desktops vs. laptops. I have a desktop now and I certainly want what I think of as desktop power. But I also love the notion of …read more