Propane is a beautiful, Mac-only desktop client for Campfire by 37signals. Working on a remote team, one of the core tools in maintaing a cohesive work environment is group chat. Out of the myriad options I keep coming back to Campfire as my chatroom of choice. The archiving, file sharing and ...

by Matt Heerema on Jan 22nd 2010 10:56AM

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Christmas is a week away. Have you finished (started) your holiday shopping yet? If you are a PROcrastinator (like myself) you've been planning on ordering everything online and having it speed-shipped in the Saint Nick of time. Well there is still time (or not). Check out the lists below for the ...

by Matt Heerema on Dec 18th 2009 11:08AM

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Google Labs recently released Browser Size, a browser window size visualization tool. Utilizing browser window size data from Google's home page (and thus monitoring a huge sample size of the world, much less your site's visitors), to overlay statistics, in terms of percentages of users, on top ...

by Matt Heerema on Dec 17th 2009 2:15PM

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Droplr is the latest of a growing selection of apps that make sharing files and links easy. Droplr takes the game up a notch by adding support for sharing "notes": any sort of text, including code with syntax highlighting. It even supports Markdown text formatting. Simply drag-and-drop the file ...

by Matt Heerema on Dec 14th 2009 4:00PM

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Monster's Den The Book of Dread is a lo-fi, highly addictive, dungeon-crawling, RPG. Choose one of three campaigns (dungeons), create a party of four characters from seven possible character classes (warrior, cleric, mage, ranger, rogue, barbarian, and conjuror, the classics), select from one of ...

by Matt Heerema on Nov 13th 2009 1:00PM

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Dropbox is one of my current top 5 favorite apps. It's an extremely useful utility with a few, very powerful, easy to use features, and now they are looking to expand. With Votebox (must be signed in to see the page), they are letting the user base vote on which features they work on next. ...

by Matt Heerema on Nov 13th 2009 11:00AM

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Can playing a video game four times a week for twelve weeks help you stop smoking? Apparently so for some. A small study conducted by the GRAP Occupational Psychology Clinic and the University of Quebec has found positive results from a specially designed, experimental, VR video game. Smokers who ...

by Matt Heerema on Nov 12th 2009 8:00PM

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There's been a lot of buzz about cloud computing over the last year or two as more and more applications (email, Office, note-keeping and so on) move to the web. Then, a little over a month ago, I started seeing a lot of buzz surrounding something called CloudApp. A more generic sounding name, I ...

by Matt Heerema on Oct 22nd 2009 1:00PM

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A key part of interface design is an exercise known as "wireframing." In this design phase, elements of an interface are blocked out roughly to show relative placement, interaction, and functionality. It is a rapid way to talk through functional requirements of a project and get buy-in from ...

by Matt Heerema on Oct 21st 2009 5:00PM

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Several months ago Jay pointed to Browserlab, a very useful new service for Web developers from Adobe. Browserlab allows you to view a Web page in multiple versions of most of the latest browsers. Since cross browser testing is perhaps the most painful part of Web development, any service that aids ...

by Matt Heerema on Oct 21st 2009 12:30PM

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