A Task Manager for the GNOME Desktop. Integrates with Evolution, Remember the Milk, Novell and allows for custom backends.
Quick Look plugin for Adobe Illustrator, InDesign, Freehand and EPS.
Aviary is a suite of powerful creative applications (image editor and others) that run in a web browser. It also includes a community of artists to share and collaborate with.
Google introduces its browser "Chrome" with a comic. No matter what Chrome brings, the comic book is a master piece of technical communication on its own. Complex concepts are explained with human touch and graspable metaphors.
Social software needs moderation and control through a meritocracy or an benevolent dictator or the psychologic dynamics of large groups without effective social control lead to collapse of the group.
Designing social software for small groups and specific contexts offers a multitude of advantages compared to designing social software for massive groups and general contexts.
The Golden Rule of Building Stuff: "ONLY BUILD STUFF FOR YOURSELF". The whole rant boils down to this rule.
"Whenever a large software company acquires a startup, the first order of business is often an attempt to move the startup's application onto the larger company's technology infrastructure so that it can get benefits of "economies of scale" or some other buzzword that is typically a euphemism for "we bought you so now you're our bitches" that is not grounded in business realities."
Chandler is a really interesting project. Not only because it is open source and innovative, but also because it has so many cool new ideas and still does not "feel" right. Combine this with some of the aspects of Stikkit, I want Sandy, and a really good Wiki and you have the ideal productivity tool.
Allows you to create buckets on S3, upload and configure and includes full configuration and monitoring options for EC2 instances. Looks quite nice and works cross-platform.
Splunk is a log monitoring and indexing software that allows you to search, monitor and report on log files for diagnostics, business intelligence and trouble-shooting. Best of all: it is free up to 500 MB daily log volume.
A complete business suite for the Mac, includes scheduling, task management, project management and customer relationship management.
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