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Invoicing software for Mac OS X (offline)
If you’re more “old school” and like to keep everything on your desktop, you can also rely on invoicing software. Here is a short list of Mac OS X invoicing software:
- http://www.marketcircle.com/billings/
- http://clickablebliss.com/profittrain/
- http://stuntsoftware.com/onthejob/
- http://www.kedisoft.com/invoice/
- http://www.grandtotal.biz/GrandTotal/
- http://www.iggsoftware.com/ibiz/index.php
- http://involer.com/
- http://bloop.it/invoices-pro/
Feel free to try, but I’m more into web-based solutions for…
Online invoicing systems (or IaaS)
A couple of years ago, there were only a few players in the online invoicing world (freshbooks and zoho invoices IIRC).
But now I’m looking for an easy and well integrated solution, there are (too) many SaaS offers from expense management to invoice generation or accounting solutions. And they even…
CrowdSourcing for other projects
Following my previous post, you may need to outsource some work other than web design related ones.
Here are a shot list of the most known services for such tasks:
- http://aws.amazon.com/mturk/ the famous mechanical turk from Amazon
- http://microworkers.com/
- http://www.vworker.com/
- http://crowdflower.com/
- https://www.odesk.com/ and http://www.freelance.com/ are quite similar services to manage various…
CrowdSourcing for design projects
As a developer, I have to admit my designer skills are quite limited (to say the least). So if you’re like me and need a website design or logo, you have 3 options:
- Know a good designer (and if possible a good integrator for websites)
- Buy a standard template
- CrowdSource your project…
Virtual Private Servers (VPS)
I’m trying to find a virtual hosting solution, if possible located in USA.
Thanks to the “cloud”, there are (too) many solutions. They are usually referred as VPS, for Virtual Private Server.
Here are some alternatives if you need a VPS:
- http://www.linode.com one of the most know VPS provider
Web Application shortcuts
Now that your every application is in “the Cloud”, the browser is kind of a desktop in the desktop. I mean you need to find a way to quickly launch your applications.
Operating Systems usually provides “shortcuts” for that purpose: one click or a menu command is enough to launch…
Nexus One and Market Applications
Almost one week elapsed since I received my Google I/O gift: the so-called “Nexus One”.
As any good geek, I already installed a couple of (not to say too much) applications to discover the droid world.
For the moment, I’m not a big fan of the Market application itself, because I…
The Truth about the Google Buzz logo !
When reading all the buzz about Google Buzz, I was shocked by some similarity between the buzz logo and some old “evil” company logo…
What do you think ?
Anyway, I’m still waiting for the buzz activation in my Gmail…
New design needed…
Looking at my blog, I feel some need (or the urge) to have a new fresh design… This one is getting old and I think a clean design for 2010 could be a quickstart.
If you have ideas, inspiration sites or suggestions feel free to comment. In the meantime, I…





