Paul Jacobson

Category: Useful stuff

  • What does it take to be a productive Android guy?

    The one app I miss most on my Android phone is an app which will enable me to interface with OmniFocus on my MacBook. I have been using OmniFocus for a couple years now and it is the best GTD/task/productivity application I have come across and yet the OmniGroup people are Mac developers and the…

  • An iPad contrarian ramble

    You may know that Amazon released an updated Kindle DX recently. I was pretty excited when the original Kindle DX launched just over a year ago. It was the first real device that took what the smaller Kindle offered and made it more useful for students and, arguably, professionals. What I like about the form…

  • Firefox 4 beta now available

    Speaking of Firefox, the first Firefox 4 beta is now available for testing. Today we’re releasing the first beta-quality version of Firefox 4, which starts us down the path to a final release of Firefox 4. We’re handling this beta differently than we’ve done other releases. In previous betas we’ve made milestone-like releases. For this…

  • IBM picks Firefox as its default browser

    IBM’s Vice President of Open Source and Linux, Bob Sutor, announced that IBM has picked Firefox as the organisation’s default browser on his blog: We’re officially adding a new piece of software to the list of default common applications we expect employees to use, and that’s the Mozilla Firefox browser. Firefox has been around for…

  • Kindle for Android app is now available

    I just noticed that the Kindle app for Android is available. DeWitt Clinton posted a few thoughts about the Kindle for Android app on Buzz and I rushed to the Kindle for Android page on the Amazon site for the lowdown and a link to the download page on the Android Marketplace. Amazon’s Kindle service…

  • Revamped LinkedIn Groups for better conversations

    LinkedIn has revamped its Groups and the result is likely to be better engagement, improved discussion quality and more relevant information being presented in groups. This video outlines the changes quite nicely: The changes seem to be designed to make the groups more relevant in themselves and, at the same time, starting points for new…

  • Harvest now available in the Google Apps Marketplace

    We use Harvest to track our time and handle our billing at our firm and it has really saved a huge amount of time performing routine time keeping, billing and client file admin tasks. I also love that it is cloud based and that it is accessible to me anywhere I am, provided I have…

  • Google Wave matures into a truly useful tool

    We’ve been using Google Wave in our firm to collaborate with some clients on new projects. We’re using a Google Wave instance based in our Google Apps account and so far the results have been pretty good. We’ve been using Wave to replace email for project related communications and brainstorming and while we haven’t exactly…