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Author Archives: Clive


Mozy - all backed up and no data to show

We’ve been trialing the new Mac version of Mozy - the online backup and storage system for a week or two and my initial impressions were favourable, but something appears to have gone alarmingly wrong.
I’ve always had my doubts about using an internet based service over a standard broadband account (actually ours is rather fast) […]

Copper Project - Project Management review #2

On paper, Copper Project from Australian developers Element Software has it all. It has everything we could wish for from a content management system.
We took a look at the $29 a month hosted (or $499 download for your own server) versions.
This is a fully featured system. A great deal of thought has gone […]

Project Management Review #1 - Project 360

I thought I’d start with a lesser known web application for my review of project management.
Project 360 claims to have “all of the features you need and none of the features you don’t. It makes your life easier and your work more efficient. ”
Well I can certainly say that it has some features […]

Project Management web applications - quest for the best

We make no secret of it, we currently use Basecamp for managing our various clients and projects. And for the main part, it does the job. We have a system that we can feed projects, milestones, tasks and time. We use a number of different contractors and freelancers who are based in various locations, and […]

Basecamp 2 - the sequel? Or just a dressing up?

37 Signals are masters of generating a buzz about their applications, and there’s no better example than the way they feed users of their various applications previews or teasers of features they are working on.
They built anticipation of Highrise up to fever pitch, and only 30 days after that product’s launch they seem to […]

Coghead - the next generation of web applications?

It seems that the first generation of web applications has hardly been upon us whence along comes an application that will surely form the advent of a second generation. The site makes me very excited indeed.
It has just come out of beta, and I urge you to take a look. In their own words: […]

A very confident debut for a new way to buy and sell art.

In our other guise as a web design company – one of the industries we specialise in is in the world of fine art. And the art world, with the exception of our clients of course, has been slow to embrace the medium of the internet. Until now. Finally sites are starting to emerge that […]

Claustrophobia in the browser

There’s a good article over on Wired whereby the author, Michael Calore, tried spending a month replacing some of his desktop applications with Google Apps.
He replaced some of his trusty desktop applications with their online Google equivalent, and tried to carry as normal.
His feedback was interesting; “Tellingly, my transition to Google’s suite of apps […]

Salesforce.com acquires start up content collaboration firm

Whilst 37 Signal’s Highrise launches as a CRM in a its most simplistic form (and I mean that as a compliment), Salesforce, arguably one of the best known and fully featured CRM system out there has acquired a start-up firm that has been established for less than a year: Koral.
Koral was a company specialising in […]

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