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Fluid — 1 app to rule them all

JC — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 18:43:48 +0000

We love web apps, and as we’ve said before, we use a lot of them. The only problem with web apps is keeping them all open in 1 browser. Fluid App can help with this…

Are you a Gmail, Facebook, Campfire or Pandora fanatic? Do you have 20 or more browser tabs open at all times? Are you tired of some random site or Flash ad crashing your browser and causing you to lose your (say) Google Docs data in another tab?

If so, Site Specific Browsers (SSBs) provide a great solution for your WebApp woes. Using Fluid, you can create SSBs to run each of your favorite WebApps as a separate Cocoa desktop application. Fluid gives any WebApp a home on your Mac OS X desktop complete with Dock icon, standard menu bar, logical separation from your other web browsing activity, and many, many other goodies.

Source: Fluid.

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Fluid — 1 app to rule them all

Applications for officeless living

JC — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 16:36:35 +0000

Working remotely, not being in the same office, or even time-zone, as your colleagues, forces you to rely on many tools to communicate, collaborate, manage, account and track.

We use quite a complicated set of mainly web-based tools to do this, but it’s worth it, because it allows myself and my team to stay remote and flexible. And the last thing we want is to go back to the daily commute!

Here is the officeless infrastructure we use:

Communications
Sales & CRM
- Highrise
Project management
- Basecamp
Blogging
Accounts, Bookkeeping & Billing
- Bento
- Freshbooks
- iCal
- Google Checkout
- PayPal
Marketing
Hosting
- Slicehost
- Media Temple

It’s interesting to note how important web-based tools are to living the work-from-home dream.

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Applications for officeless living

I ♥ Basecamp

JC — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 14:14:10 +0000

I’ve been using Basecamp for years now.

I was first introduced to it at Spring Digital in 04 and opened my first personal account in 05. I’ve always intended to post about it and try explain why it’s such an essential piece of software. However, Basecamp‘s genius is hard to define in a single blog post as it does so much! And the effect of Basecamp is subtle — sure, it does to-dos, messages, chat & milestones, but so do a lot of other pieces of software. Basecamp just happens to do these things better than the competition and in a way that can transform your own thinking, effectiveness and profession.

And if that isn’t enough to convince you to try it, it has only cost me a little over a thousand bucks for these years of happy project management.

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I ♥ Basecamp