Im Colin Nederkoorn. I left my cushy job in sales to become a web entrepreneur. more...
About a month ago, I decided to use Picasa Web Albums. After arriving back from Argentina, I realized if I were to upload my pictures to Picasa Web Albums, I would very quickly run out of space.
Michelle who was on my trip had her photos on flickr and my friend Brian in Betahouse used flickr. So, I decided to give it a shot. I love it and wouldnt switch back. Read the rest of this entry »
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Social: digg / del.icio.usI wrote last month about how great Mozy was. Well, It’s a month later and I was never able to backup my 30 gigs. It was slowly getting there. I had 3 gigs remaining. The problem is, Mozy’s servers cant handle the capacity. During the week I was always getting errors that the server couldnt be reached. Read the rest of this entry »
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Last night I attended Bug+Boston at the Middlesex Lounge. Aside from the free drinks, many of us were there to see what this Bug Device does and what the company is all about.
Here’s the gist:
BUG: An open source, web-enabled, modular software + hardware platform. Read the rest of this entry »
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Scream louder? Wave your arms? Take your pants off? How do you get attention?
Simplify the message. Cut to the core and get rid of the excess. Read the rest of this entry »
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One of the things I like to do on my blog is shamelessly promote my friends. The criteria for shameless promotion is high. It’s about as high as the criteria for me calling you one of my friends. My friend Dan Grover at Wonderwarp Software just released version 1.0 of his new app Shovebox
Shovebox is great name, because that’s what the app is. It’s a box that you shove stuff in to. It competes in the same class of apps as Yojimbo and Eagle Filer. The Shovebox approach is to have a little box in the menu bar like you see below:
When you want to add something, drag and drop it to the box. Organize your notes and clippings later. Shovebox allows you to dump your brain when you get a thought or see something interesting. This allows you to focus on the activity at hand.
Basically, I use shovebox to store “stuff” and Actiontastic to store “things I need to do”. Shovebox is a great addition to my arsenal. I had been toying with Yojimbo, but couldn’t find a reason to justify the $40. $25 for Shovebox is easier to swallow.
Things I’d love to be able to store in Shovebox
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They may have helped define it, but they don’t get it!
I was reading a review by Robby on Rails about Highrise. One of the responders, Will had this to say about 37 Signals:
It doesn’t make sense to me. On the web (2.0) the mantra is integration, and yet here we have a single company releases compartmentalized applications that are an ideal extension of one another.
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My friend Pach wrote his final papers (something like 2000 pages in all) for his masters degree in Philosophy in Google Docs. It has everything academics need for papers. It even has some features like versioning and backup that are difficult or non-existent on off-line word processors (Microsoft Word). The big drawback with Google Docs and similar software is layout - quite simply making it look the way you want it to. I tried out some software that may solve that problem. Read the rest of this entry »
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