October 2008
13 posts
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Oct 31st
Dealing with Telephone & Snail Mail Spam (in...
Register for the National Do Not Call List Register for the Do Not Contact Service (snail mail) For phone calls, the National Do Not Call List applies to all telemarketers with the exception of: registered charities political parties newspapers companies with which you have an existing relationship companies you have given permission to call market research and polling firms You can...
Oct 24th
Oct 23rd
Simple Time Tracking for the Mac
I really love the simplicity of Time Tracker, an open source time tracking application. Rainer has made some great additions which you can find on his blog. If you want integration with billing then try FreshBooks, Canadian company, they have a dashboard widget. I personally like the feel of TimeTracker but FreshBooks does have a great feature set (free signup required).
Oct 22nd
Wireframing in OmniGraffle
My personal faviourite stencils for wireframming in OmniGraffle can be found on Michael Angeles’ website. I also came across these fun sketch-like wireframe sentencils at Graffletopia. You can learn what sentcils are Update 2008-10-26: Brendon mentions the great looking Yahoo Design Stencils
Oct 22nd
“To be concise is great, but “to apply context, it takes time and words.”
– Jeff
Oct 22nd
Oct 18th
Pick a Meeting Time, with Time Zones!
Thanks to Tom who introduced me to Doodle, a minamlisitic and registration-free web app which allows you to pick a meeting time with multiple people with time zone support. Neato.
Oct 17th
“I would do business with someone based on their hold music”
– Marc, VOIP Startup Founder
Oct 15th
Steve Jobs is Scanning my Business Cards
Probably more likely to happen than getting the  ScanSnap S300M to work like an OS X citizen or Neat Receipts getting good press in their forums. The problems with my Fujitsu scanner are numerous: starting with an unresponsive help desk, to a bite-sized knowledge base, to software which doesn’t follow the CMD-W (close window) or CMD-Q (quit application) conventions. I’m drowning in...
Oct 6th
Tag-Centric PIM
There are so many PIMs out there for the Mac, but they all seem stuck on the old folder hierarchy model. Nothing is wrong with folders, but shoving ideas into neat boxes is difficult for the creative mind. Phil’s Journler is one of the most flexible PIMs I’ve come across and I’ve recently enjoyed playing with Steve’s Together, but nothing clicks as being just right....
Oct 4th
Fix your Tech Support Fujitsu
Called the 800 number, after sitting through 30 seconds of blaber I hear what I need and pressed Tech Support then Scanners. I then got looped back to the first message, that’s exactly what I wanted. Second time around I dial the exact same sequence but get transfered to some random employee’s voicemail, but they won’t be back in the office for a week… Fix your tech...
Oct 1st