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business tools

Force 1Password to sync with iCloud

September 26, 2013

I love 1Password. It’s hands down the most used app outside of my design and development tools. 1Password 4 is a very nice upgrade in almost every way. It’s faster, better looking, and they took…

Use a CRM to Get More Business

May 11, 2010

As a client-based small business it’s very important to keep track of clients and prospective clients and the communication between them. Emails, phone calls, in-person meetings, tasks, follow ups, introductions, handshakes, and games of charades…

Dropping MobileMe

December 20, 2009

10/21/2011 Update: This is an article from 2009 about moving from MobileMe to Google for syncing of contacts, calendars, and email. While I did move away from MobileMe at the time, I’ve since transferred nearly…

Harvest feature updates before end of ’08

December 29, 2008

The holiday season was not just for egg nog quaffing and loitering under the mistletoe for the folks over at Iridesco. They managed to push out a new set of minor features to their Harvest…

Web design business tools

December 11, 2008

How SD gets the day to day business done. When asked what I do for a living, my response is generally, “I’m a web designer.” And while it’s certainly true that I spend the majority…

Giving MarsEdit a test drive

December 5, 2008

I find that the WordPress Admin window for adding a new post is much too small. Yes, I know you can make it bigger by dragging the form window open, but it messes with the…

An open letter to Iridesco

November 30, 2008

Dear Iridesco, Let me start by saying that I love Harvest. It has saved me a ton of time in billing for projects and tracking how much time each aspect of a project takes. I…