Archive for September, 2007

links for 2007-09-30

FreelanceSwitch Hourly Rate Calculator
It is meant to calculate hourly rate for freelancers, but it asks enough questions that it could be used for a business with a little tweaking. Nice too.
(tags: business calculator money finance freelance)

Corby Simpson
Corby has an extremely effective call to action on his homepage. It is a Flash video tutorial of [...]

links for 2007-09-29

Coudal Partners’ Layer Tennis
First up: Shaun Inman vs Kevin Cornell.
(tags: photoshop design community competition art)

“The End” is near
(tags: Design inspiration typography)

Intel’s first rock video - “Set I.T. Managers Free”
Wrong! It’s just wrong! …but funny… kinda.
(tags: intel blogging christopher_guest music video)

links for 2007-09-27

Welcome to docstoc : find and share any document
Interesting concept, well executed, could be a hit.
(tags: sharing documents web2.0 business resources reference community techcrunch)

links for 2007-09-26

Version 2.3:New Taxonomy « WordPress Codex
Ah, so that’s how the WordPress “terms” table works.
(tags: wordpress terms)

“Terms” in WordPress 2.3

The WordPress 2.3 terms table is a smart, forward-thinking update… and it breaks most themes horribly.

New Theme in Progress

I stumbled across the morning after a few days ago and have begun customizing it to fit Mobile Hippie. The magazine-style layout appeals to me. I can see quite a few uses for it and think I will be slicing and dicing this theme to figure out its ins and outs and to accommodate more [...]

First Look at Mint

I just took a first look at Mint, a new financial management tool that just won a place in the TechCrunch40. I am impressed. I’ll follow up with a more in depth review once I’ve worked up the nerve to share my online banking information with them…that’s a big leap for me. Until then, [...]

Google “Presentation” in the Wild

Google adds Presentation to Google Docs. Interesting tool. I particularly like the feature that lets you publish the document and share a chat room and the presentation at once. Pretty quick way to set up a meeting. That said, I’m probably not giving up Keynote for it.

Campaign Monitor strikes a chord.

Campaign Monitor’s September 2007 Newsletter is packed with great stuff. Besides the design gallery, which is always a treat, the newsletter highlights David Griener’s treatise on the state of email standards (great read) and throws out an article on email authentication–which is so very timely. Don’t get me started on the new suppression list feature–handy–and [...]

Congratulations Jive!

Jive Software just released version 1.6 of Clearspace. Congratulations guys.