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Watch the good2gether 6-minute presentation at DEMO ‘08

If you missed the opportunity to watch good2gether launch live (we’re still not public though), don’t worry. Watch this video to see Greg McHale rock the auditorium in Palm Desert. Everyone on the dev team (Jon P, BDV, Bill) and the design team (Jon R., Tim) made miracles happen to get the platform as polished as it is for DEMO. Check it out after the jump: Read the rest of this entry »

Popularity: 12% [?]

I made a mistake about Mozy - it sucks.

I 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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Now the iPhone does mail as well as a blackberry

One of the biggest problems with the iPhone is how it handles email (especially if you use gmail). If I read something on my iPhone, it was still unread in my gmail, and my inbox.

Basically, the way it should work is: if I read it on my phone, my laptop, my desktop or the web, it should be marked as read everywhere. You couldn’t do this out of the box. Read the rest of this entry »

Popularity: 10% [?]

Three Key OS X Leopard features for startups

I wont waste your time with the B.S. marketing. Here’s why you’re going to want to upgrade to Mac OS X Leopard.

1. Time Machine - One of the features Apple is pushing hard for this release. Time machine is document versioning for your entire system. You do need to have an external drive for it to work, but once you do, you will never lose a document by accident. Time machine makes document backup and recovery easy.

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Popularity: 7% [?]

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How much whitespace should a resume have?

This is the question I have after seeing the new resume templates in Pages ‘08. I have to update my resume, so I was thinking about snazzing it up. Im really not sure about these resume templates. They all look great, but isn’t a resume primarily about a font large enough to read, and getting your message across? Read the rest of this entry »

Popularity: 25% [?]

Check me out on your iPhone

I found a great plugin to Wordpress - iWPhone. If you browse the site on your iPhone or using iPhoney, you should see a site optimized for the iPhone. For such a small market, there sure are a lot of people investing time into the iPhone. I wonder how many users the iPhone has vs. the Blackberry?

Popularity: 6% [?]

Shovebox - A mac app that rocks

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

• Passwords (integration with keychain)
• Serial Numbers
• Web archive from firefox (only works w/ Safari now)

Popularity: 19% [?]

Skype - Software for business people in startups

Unless you’re living under a rock, you know Skype. Skype lets you call other people free using your computer. Im going to show you some ways to use Skype in your startup to maximize your effectiveness. Read the rest of this entry »

Popularity: 13% [?]

CSSEdit - Software for business people in startups

Unless your pockets are lined with gold, you’re going to have to get your hands dirty. This is the first in a series of software for business people in startups.

Use Case: You’ve outsourced the design of your startup site to a professional design firm (you’re smart enough to know not to hire an in-house designer yet). The website has a small change that needs to be made. You can either pay your design firm $500 to make the change, or do it yourself. Read the rest of this entry »

Popularity: 8% [?]