Bank Run. Interactive web-based game and companion iPhone app.
Posted by March 3, 2010 permalink
Headquarters—a new iPhone (and iPod Touch) app for Basecamp users, by Select Start Studios.
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We still have a ways to go. I’m finding the concept of “cloud” computing, or “cloud” services and applications, can be a difficult one for some people to wrap their heads around. Case-in-point: my wife. She is a tech-savvy girl—she has almost a decade on me with respect to mobile phone usage—yet she still insists on carrying USB memory sticks around in her purse, or in her pocket. Even worse, she will often rely on emailing important work files to herself. I’ve tried to turn her on to using Dropbox, but for some reason, she simply does not want to bother (even though the benefits have been made quite clear to her). I think we need a dead-simple explanation of the benefits of storing files online, on a remote machine, to turn-the-tide.
No matter how many external drive back-ups you have, or burned DVD’s—if your home, office, or studio burns down, or much more likely, gets burglarized, I think it’s a safe bet you’ll lose everything. Your data is 1000x more valuable than your new Macbook Pro and 1TB Lacie drives.
Posted by February 16, 2010 permalink
Seth Godin speaks with Nora Young on Spark. A great interview to start off the new year—download the interview here. Seth is also offering his book What Matters Now as a free ebook. Seth really hits the nail on the head in this interview.
Posted by January 4, 2010 permalink
Very pleased that I stumbled across this all-things-Mac Tumblr blog—packed full of content that every serious, professional Apple owner and user should have access to.
Posted by December 31, 2009 permalink
We re-shot all of our project screens today using an iPhone, and an app called “Quad Camera“. It produces a moody, Lomography-styled image. Impressive little app.
Posted by December 17, 2009 permalink
I have posted a website review over at COMMANDOpera. This is the first in a series of reviews I will be doing for the fine folks over there.
Posted by December 16, 2009 permalink
37signals begins it’s “37signals ID” rollout this week. They are another good example of a company with design woven into the fabric of their being. This should simplify and unify the 37signals product experience. Smart move.
Posted by December 15, 2009 permalink
Bugtrapp: a coming bug-tracking web application from Hashbrown Inc, about to make it to beta…
Posted by December 12, 2009 permalink
Wallet, by Canadian-based Acrylic, will make your life a whole-lot-easier. Store sensitive data (that if you lost you’d be toast) in a secure OS X application, and sync it with an iPhone version as well. Need to store that data in the cloud? Wallet does that to. Syncs with MobileMe.
Posted by December 10, 2009 permalink
Dropbox is a cloud-computing service that I can no longer picture not having at our disposal. I’ve always worried, in the back of my mind: what if the 100-year old Glebe mansion (at one time) burns to-the-ground? No matter how many back-ups you have (external drives, DVD’s, USB sticks)—in a fire, they all go up-in-smoke.
The reason we chose Dropbox was for several reasons: 2GB free account to start, simplistic UI and UX, and seamless iPhone/iPod Touch integration.
Sharing specific folders is a breeze, and the peace of mind it brings is priceless…
Thanks, Dropbox.
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Really dig these guys, based in Jacksonville, Florida. They develop their own web applications + services that all follow a very simple mantra—less is better.
Posted by October 18, 2009 permalink
Realmac Software make OS X applications that are elegant, intelligent, and beautiful to look at. The app that I am most excited about, is a soon-to-be-released app titled “Socialite“. From what I gather, and from the screenshots they have provided, it looks like an all-in-one desktop-based social media hub: Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, and multiple Google features.
As I said this morning on Twitter—desktop social media apps are where it’s at.
Posted by October 8, 2009 permalink
Never do this. We should never, ever, ever, have to post this kind of technical nonsense on to our work. They should have also made mention that the Doctype was indeed XHTML Strict, so everything is peachy.
Posted by August 27, 2009 permalink
