Vocino Labs

Today someone asked me what applications I use constantly. What’s open on my computers all day that I use to run my business or reference in general. After going into it and having the discussion he noted, “You should make a blog post about this.” Great idea!
I’ll save all the development stuff I use for [...]

I use three 37signals applications: Backpack, Basecamp and Highrise (go go referral links). With these 3 excellent web apps, I’m able to rock out a seriously awesome complete intranet setup for my business.
Just using them is fine but, as usual, I like to take it one step further into better integration with my desktop [...]

There are a ton of easy-to-use, lightweight, out-of-the-box invoicing applications out there. So when I set out to find something that meshed well with my style, it was no simple task.
Luckily, I found Freshbooks — which does all and more than I could ask for. The best features, in my opinion, being (1) [...]

I’m a big fan of OpenID. I’m also a big fan of neat packages where everything is branded beautifully clean-like. (Did that make sense?)
I dig custom Basecamp URLs, for example. In the same way, I also dig branding my OpenID url. This means instead of using the default MyOpenID url vocino.myopenid.com I [...]

As anyone that has worked with me will tell you, I’m a big perfectionist when it comes to having well reached cohesive brand identity. As you can see by the looks of things around here (my site), I’m in the middle of a total overhaul. Unfortunately, before I get to the good stuff [...]