The Word Clock is an interesting typographic experiment.
It is also a screensaver for OS X and Windows! Be sure to check it out, it’s quite cool and worth installing.
Month: August 2008
RegexBuddy for Writing Regular Expressions
“I’ve saved dozens of hours” — Tom Chapin
Here at the office Tom occasionally has to write Regular Expressions. He’s come to depend on a tool called RegexBuddy (for Windows) which he purchased for only $40. A really great value when you consider the time he’s saved.
Me? I don’t use regular expressions, I use Extra-Large Expressions. 😉
Time Tracking Software for Mac
A reader asks about tracking time on OS X:
Chris,
So here’s the deal: I now find myself with clients — people who are paying me money to do stuff for them. How cool is that? For some, I’ve set up a monthly set fee, others I’m charging by the hour. But for both, I’d like to track time on a slice-by-slice basis and give them a nice and fancy set of reports on how much time I spent doing what.
For the majority of what I do, I’m doing it right here on the MacBook Pro. So a nice little tool bar or icon on the task bar would be handy. What do you recommend?
Signed,
A Reader
Chris responds with a few time tracking suggestions:
Hello Reader,
Thank you for asking, we’ve researched a number of time-tracking apps and made a handy list of time tracking software at www.timetrackingresources.com — check it out!
A popular time tracking application that works across Windows and Mac is Harvest (but get the widget so you can track time from the desktop).
And there is a Mac Desktop widget called TimePost2 you can purchase that works with a lot of different time tracking web apps.
One more recommendation: Billings. We’ve heard from many satisfied customers of Billings that it is a useful tool.
Use one of those programs until Minuteglass, our own software application, is released. Minuteglass is going to be released by Tornado later this year. It’s a time tracking application (for Web, OS X, and Windows).
I hope that helps!
Regards,
Chris