With just a few hours to go in 2010, I’m thinking about 2011 already. This year, I’m not really making any resolutions, since they are made to be broken. Instead, I’ve written a list of things that I can do using my Apple products to make my life even more enjoyable than it already is. When you get to be my age (over a half-century old), you want to “grab for all the gusto you can get.” Since I’m never away from an Apple product (well, almost never — I don’t use my iPhone in the shower), I know that my Macs, iPad, and iPhone can help me make 2011 a very happy New Year.
1) Read more books. I do a lot of writing, which has strangely enough left me with less time to read for enjoyment. With iBooks and the Amazon Kindle reader both installed on my iPad and iPhone, I plan to download a lot more books in 2011. Re-reading some old favorites and exploring new authors will be a nice way to start reading again.
2) Take at least one photo a day. Having my iPhone 4 in my pocket all the time makes it dead simple to take pictures, and even when my day consists of hanging around my home office writing, I can usually find something to snap a photo of with Instagram, Camera+, or the regular iPhone camera app. I started doing this last year just before New Year’s Day, but the app that I was using changed mid-year and wouldn’t let me post additional photos. This year? I’m just going to post my daily pictures to a new Flickr set so my Project 365 isn’t dependent on the whims of a developer.
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