Amidst all the hype about social commerce, Facebook just launched its first test of Facebook Deals among several US cities. Deals is Facebookâs new group-buying platform, which competes with other sites like Groupon, LivingSocial, and Google Offers. All which allow users to receive daily deals on products and services relative to their location. Groupon, the [...]
Category Archives: Software
2009.01.29 – 6:41 am
The Future of Applications
While catching up on some of my latest industry news today on Twitter I found a very cool web application that pretty much takes the term interactive website to a new level (thanks @bongobrian). SUMO Paint is a fully functioning image manipulation and painter program. What sets it apart from other such software is that [...]
2008.09.02 – 5:32 am
Google's Launches "Chrome" Web Browser
Google is set to launch Chrome, it’s open source web browser, for beta on Windows on Tuesday September 2, 2008. Mac and Linux versions are to follow shortly after. The browser is designed to be lightweight and fast, and to cope with the next generation of web applications that rely on graphics and multimedia. “What [...]
2007.11.02 – 12:12 am
Congratulations Dr. Brookstone!
Congratulations to Dr. Alan Brookstone, founder of canadianemr.ca, who recently opened the PROOF (Physician Resource Office of the Future) Lab in Richmond, BC. PROOF is an innovative training, testing and quality assurance lab that offers Physicians secure, remote access to regional clinical management systems, decision support tools and identity management technologies in a real doctor’s [...]
2007.10.16 – 9:48 pm
Basecamp: Project collaboration, management, and task software
Basecamp is a web-based tool that lets us manage and track projects (or simply ideas) and quickly create client/project extranet. With Basecamp, everything is centralized, for us and the clients as well. Make to-do lists, share files (with co-workers, or with clients), track time, schedule milestones. Their dashboard lets us see and organize easily our [...]
2007.06.13 – 11:52 pm
Spry Widget is why we should use Dreamweaver CS3
Not only does Dreamweaver CS3 handle video so well – as well as flash, the Spry widgets make our lives a lot easier…. Of course this is the case for us who aren’t developers, knows nothing about Ajax… A Spry widget is a page element that combines HTML, CSS and JavaScript data to enable user [...]
2007.06.11 – 5:34 pm
DVD Screen Grab Trick for OS X Tiger
I had to take screen shots of a dvd, and found this trick: Go to the part of the movie you’d like to capture. Hit the Stop button in the DVD controller. Press the Play button in the controller, and then immediately press down Command-Shift-4. Hit the space bar to take a screenshot of the [...]
