Category Archives: awesome

Cool user experience

By jonezy | Published: September 22, 2009
I use remember the milk for managing my day to day tasks, it’s a great service and I’ve gone through just about every to-do list app on the web. One of the really cool things about the service is that you can sign up to test features before they are released to the entire user base. [...]
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posting from blackberry

By jonezy | Published: July 8, 2009
Just downloaded and installed the wordpress app for the blackberry, set up on no time and seems to be really easy to use! Will write a more detailed review after I’ve used it for a while
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Lost fans, get excited!

By jonezy | Published: June 3, 2009
This is simply awesome, the awesome people at my favourite lost blog Lostpedia are rewatching and reviewing the entire first season of the show over the summer, check it out and take a trip back to where it all started!!!! Hint to anyone that buys me presents and might be reading this blog, you should probably [...]
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Embracing constraints

By jonezy | Published: June 17, 2008
In the design and development world there is a lot of talk about constraints and embracing them to foster creativity. I love this movement and subscribe to it (at least I try to). One thing that has slowly crept up on me though is that this type of attitude is starting to gain some real [...]
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Spread Firefox!

By jonezy | Published: June 16, 2008
Tomorrow, the Mozilla foundation is releasing the latest version of the Firefox browser. While they are at it they are also trying to set a record for the most software downloads in a 24 hour period. If you aren’t using Firefox tomorrow would be a great time to try it, it really is [...]
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Why can’t I do that?

By jonezy | Published: June 16, 2008
I just had to post this video I came across the other day, it’s a google tech talk and the presenter is Aza Raskin (Son of Jeff Raskin, the guy who started the macintosh project for apple).  He’s also one of the founders of Humanized who make the most excellent Enso launcher product, a company [...]
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Birthday Contest @ CodeSqueeze

By jonezy | Published: June 8, 2008
Max Poole is holding a contest at his blog to give away a copy of Bamboo 2.0 (continuous integration software) and a copy of Slick Edit (suite of add-ons for visual studio) I’ve never used the Slick Edit product but I’ve got lot’s of experience using Atlassian products (Jira and confluence) and would love to get [...]
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Rocks and Rewards!

By jonezy | Published: June 2, 2008
So as part of our company alignment and implementing the Rockefeller Habits at Q4 our quarterly theme was moving rocks together. We set aside a room with a video camera and plates with peoples names on them, if you felt the urge to recognize someone you could go into the room and record a short [...]
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jonezy.org.BackpackAPI

By jonezy | Published: May 27, 2008
Is the reason why I haven’t been posting here, I’m working on building a c# wrapper for the 37 Signals Backpack API. Nothing terribly exciting yet (I’m basically just implementing the services per the api docs). I’m hosting this at Google Code and this will be an open source project. I’m also [...]
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Twitter in plain english

By jonezy | Published: May 10, 2008
Found this while reading Rick Strahl’s blog today, I’ve tried to explain twitter to a lot of people but this pretty much sums it up in about 2 minutes, what more could you ask for? (video source: http://www.commoncraft.com/Twitter)
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