My App Arsenal

The Lab on September 3rd, 2009 Comments Off

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 [...]

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Billing for Your Brain

The Lab on June 2nd, 2008 3 Comments

When talking to James Mathias about a recent project, Dine Magazine’s site and infrastructure, we touched on how many designers and developers lose money on jobs because they don’t bill for their thoughts.
Most companies don’t seem to realize that a large part of creative technology work is simply thinking. “How do you solve this [...]

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I'm in Love with Freshbooks

The Lab on April 29th, 2008 8 Comments

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) [...]

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