I recently discovered Personal Brain and I’m taken with it. It took me a couple hours of experimentation and more importantly, playing with Jerry Michalski’s brain to get used to it and to realize how powerful it is. For those of you who ‘get’ and use GTD, I’ll say that this gave me the same […]
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Beautiful Software Round up
The attribute these web and Mac apps have in common is that they are all beautiful, simple and functional. They each perform a fairly complex task with almost no learning curve. Yep is a PDF management program similar to iPhoto, but much more focused on meta-data. I love the effects in Yep, the scanning interface, […]
Once you’ve learned the basics, I think the best way to learn Ruby on Rails is to look at apps written in Rails and learn from their source. The nice thing about Rails is that once you’re familiar with one application, you can pretty much open any Rails app and understand the structure enough to […]
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Web Based Collaboration Tools
Tonight I wanted to collaborate with a few friends on a diagram–basically just an org chart. This being the age of online collaboration, we tried all the web-based tools we could find which were: Thinkature ConceptShare Imagination Cubed Vyew We quickly discovered that they are all lame. This is why. Thinkature – Once we got […]
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Free Alternatives to QuickTime
If you’re still using QuickTime, which does not support full screen video playback unless you buy QuickTime Pro, check out the follo wing free video players. They are listed in the order that I prefer them: 1. NicePlayer – simple, fast, full screen (or borderless at any size) video playback. It can play DVD’s, playlists […]
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A Year of Shareware
I think before this year I’d probably purchased 4 or 5 shareware programs, this year it’s been a different story! I’m not sure if it’s that the quality of the available shareware has gotten that much better or if I’ve just started buying more of it, but in any case, here’s the list of Shareware […]
I’ve looked at several options for making sure I “use my time wisely” while I’m on the computer including: Onlife (Mac only) The Printable CEO Timers that capture screenshots such as TimeSnapper or block programs such as Temptation Blocker (Windows only) Project timers such as On The Job and Billings2 and Billable (all Mac Only) […]
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Before you Learn Rails
Since I started learning Rails I’ve often been asked “is Rails hard to learn?” A lot of times this is by people who don’t know any other programming language or even HTML. The answer to that question is a little more complicated than a simple yes or no. Rails isn’t necessarily hard to learn, but […]
I’m looking forward to the day I can use any computer with a web connection to be as productive as I am on my own computer. Most websites that try to replace desktop applications fall far short off their counterparts. In the meantime, here’s what’s ready and what’s not: Ready to Use: Gmail – this […]
I like lists! Really, who doesn’t? If I look back over the archives of this blog there are a significant number of lists–everything from finding domain names to finding success to my most recent post with 3 ways to deal with toddler tendencies. I like lists. A list is a concise way to obtain and […]