September 16th, 2008 |
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Action Method – Splash 20080916, originally uploaded by stechico.
In a recent announcement, Behance unveils its new product called Action Method (AMO). They have spent the past year designing and developing the new platform for productivity and project management.
The system is based on the “Action Method” and the design of our paper product line, but the technology itself is revolutionary. Now being beta-tested by a select group of people and teams, AMO is a web-based application that offers a radically different approach to managing projects and collaborating with others.
You may signup to be notified when it launches by click here.
Meanwhile, on a side note, I’m digging the Methodology page’s copy and visuals:
The success of any idea ultimately comes down to action. Our method is a discipline for everyday productivity.
Designed for those with many ideas and lots of creative energy, the Action Method seeks to simplify project management and life.
April 25th, 2008 |
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For those that have a laptop and a work-station or desktop PC/Mac, we are often faced with the question of how to fit and work on both on our tiny little desks (but that’s probably just me). Anyways, if you haven’t heard of Synergy:
Synergy lets you easily share a single mouse and keyboard between multiple computers with different operating systems, each with its own display, without special hardware. It’s intended for users with multiple computers on their desk since each system uses its own monitor(s).
… it’s a dang useful tool. I have recently tried this on my MacBook Pro (as the client) to work along my work Mac 24″ and my new rig at home (as the server).
If you are on an OS X system, you won’t need to install the original Synergy package, but might want to consider stepping in to the GUI version of it called, SyneryKM:
SynergyKM is a GUI wrapper around the synergy command line tool that lets you easily share a single mouse and keyboard between multiple computers with different operating systems without special hardware.
Here are the steps I would take; at least making your main Mac the server, and your MacBook+ the client:
- Download and install SyneryKM to both machines. The install should put Synergy in your “System Preferences”.
- Clicking on it to open it up, select the appropriate behavior:
- To make the machine the server, click on the option with “Share my keyboard and mouse.”
- To make the machine a client, click on the option with “Connect to a shared keyboard and mouse”.
It should be intuitive enough.
- Now the next step is to setup the display configuration on “the server” machine. Click on the “Server Configuration” tab. You would then Add each of the machine; you may either use their computer name(s)
- In “the client” machine(s), you are instead clicking on the “Client Configuration” tab. Enter either the Server IP or hostname of “the server” machine.
- Last but not least, you just need “Turn Synergy On” and that should do it.
Note: if you have upgraded to at least Leopard v10.5.2, you will need to make sure than “Enable Bonjour” option is turned off. There seems to be a problem that causes SynergyKM to not work correctly with it enabled in this version of Leopard.
Anyways, I’ll see if I can write up the steps to getting your PC/Windows machine working when I get a chance later. For now, soak in the glory of using just a keyboard and a mouse to control your machines.
May 15th, 2006 |
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It seems that I am finding Google Calendar (currently being referred to as gCal by technopiles) an alternative to Outlook lately. Even though I wish that Google would finish up implementing some kind of syncing between gCal and Outlook already. But luckily, there’s a “hack” that helps out in that side of things. I guess its enough to hold me down for a bit till something from Google comes about.
Anyways, one of the other things that I was hoping gCal to have was a simple to-do list(s), aka. Tasks for those Outlook-oriented people. As I was Blingo-ing for an integration of some kind of to-do list with gCal, this article was on top of the list by Matias Pelenur. It does the job using JS, GM and FireFox. Although at the moment, it only saves your to-do list per GM install; locally that is, per computer. But there are a couple of workarounds that can be done to make it store to services such as Amazon S3, gCal itself, etc. as noted by Matias.
Supposedly, Google mentioned the availability of an “Account Authentication Proxy for Web Applications” feature that will be intergrated with their gCal API in late April… this past April in fact. I guess we’ll just have to wait for an update on Matias about that, or from Google regarding their own home-blended to-do list integration with gCal.
December 5th, 2005 |
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Protopage just seems to keep getting better and better. Lately, they updated to version 2.0. That’s “2.0″ as in “Web 2.0″–HA! *snicker* OK. I admit, it’s still too early on the week for such foolish wordings but all is fair in the land of web technology and blogging.
Meanwhile, Protopage jam-packed their release with a slew of new features. Some new features that stood out for me were:
- ability to add new pages
- rounded corners on panels
- new color schemes for panels
- and rich-text editing
There are plenty more that I still have to try out. So, if you missed my write-up on Protopage last September and still haven’t tried it out–it’s not too late to do so. By the way, did I mention that it’s FREE?!
Do you need another reason to jump in and have a look at it? If so, then lets just say that the BBC covered Protopage. Anyways, what’s a better reason than to just help you get organized in life.
Keep it simple–and FREE!
September 15th, 2005 |
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So what can be the coolest page you have ever been to on the net? Well, its simple. The one that you just created and customized. How you may ask? Why not find out over at Protopage.
But what exactly is it?
Protopage makes it easier for you to get to your favorite web sites.
Create a page, put your links and sticky notes on it, and save it as your new browser start page.
With my experience, in the quick 10 minutes of using it, its more for those that need to easily transport their sticky notes from home to work and vice-versa. Its an alternative for those of us who don’t have time to make a personal homepage where to-do-lists, new web links and lotto numbers might reside. A cool thing about it is–its AJAXibility (just made it up, don’t wear it out).
You can change the layout of your notes; the color of your background/foreground; the image/wallpaper of your homepage; and many more. All of this in real-time. By the way, did I mention that its FREE!
The only thing that might be of a “fine-print” material would be this part (below their registration form):
We ask for your email address so that we can send your password to you if you forget it, and to send you occasional news about Protopage. We respect your privacy. You can opt out of the Protopage news emails at any time.
Otherwise, go give it a try. I’m pretty sure it’ll be of good use for those always on-the-go. As well as those who are always in need of a service that helps them manage this clutter-verb we call “web-surfing.”
