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Our thanks to Mutual Mobile for sponsoring the Tools & Toys RSS feed this week. * Why work for Mutual Mobile? We've grown from a core 5 people in 2009 to just over 200 at the turn of 2012, and we're poised to double that figure over the next year. Our client list includes companies like Google, Cisco, and Audi,…
Our thanks to Sifter for sponsoring the Tools and Toys RSS feed this week. * Sifter is a simple project management tool for small teams. It frees you up to focus on shipping better software instead of checking in on team members. It's perfect for serving as your team's central location for capturing and managing all of a project's issues,…
Our thanks to Igloo Software for sponsoring the RSS feed this week. * You start your day, grab a coffee and update Bob. Then you swing by your manager's office and update him. He's like, "Oh. Em. Gee." (He thinks that's cool). Now you've got to update his boss. You get back three conversations later and tell Janice what happened.…
Our thanks to Inkling for sponsoring the Tools & Toys RSS feed this week. * Information design and data visualization is a fast-growing field, and charting new territory requires cross-disciplinary know-how. To that end, O’Reilly Media and Inkling have teamed up to reimagine the world’s most trusted design and technological resources for iPad, iPhone, and the web. Now, you can…
Our thanks to Karbon for sponsoring the RSS feed this week to promote Scratch, their stellar new iPhone app for quickly jotting down notes. * Great ideas need to be captured immediately. Scratch for iPhone cuts through the barriers of note taking and gives you a clean slate to get your idea down fast. You don't have to come up…
Our thanks to Snitchware for sponsoring the RSS feed this week. * Finding the perfect weather app isn't easy. Most apps rely on free information; providing the bare minimum and accuracy that leaves much to be desired. They lure you in with fancy effects and a flashy interface, distracting you from what matters most — the weather forecast. WeatherSnitch throws…
Our thanks to muvichip for sponsoring the RSS feed this week. * Watching a movie in the post-DVD world is a mess. Blu-Ray startup times are measured in dozens of minutes. Digital is faster, but good luck finding your movie. If you find it, you'd better not get interrupted because you've got 24 hours to watch it! There has to…
Our thanks to Harvest for sponsoring the RSS feed this week. Harvest is a painless time tracking tool for creative professionals available anywhere you find yourself working. Track time via the web, desktop or your mobile device. Within seconds, turn your billable hours into an invoice. Get started with a free 30 day trial today. Sponsorship by The Syndicate
Our thanks to Checkmark for sponsoring the RSS feed this week. Shawn reviewed this iPhone app last month and heartily recommends it. We've found it to be far better than Apple's built-in reminders app when it comes to the accuracy and reliability of location-based reminders. Checkmark is the fastest way to create location- or time-based reminders for iPhone. In just a few…
Our thanks to Squarespace 6 for sponsoring the Tools and Toys RSS feed this week. Design a visually rich website with magazine-quality layouts that scale to any screen size, all without touching a line of code. Squarespace 6 is a revolutionary new website creation platform with over 50 new features. Squarespace's breakthrough LayoutEngine technology allows anyone to create visually-rich pages with any…
My thanks to Boom for sponsoring the RSS feed this week. Boom is a volume booster app for your Mac. It increases the system audio volume to produce better-quality audio from the built-in speakers. The system-wide graphic equalizer can further enhance your Mac's audio quality. Boom won the Macworld Best of Show award for its simplicity, elegancy and well-crafted user interface. It…
My thanks to Igloo Software for sponsoring the RSS feed this week. They're giving away a Das Keyboard this month, which is awesome. We're big fans of Clicky Keyboards here at Tools and Toys and the Das Keyboard is what I use day. Literally, I'm typing on mine right now. Igloo Software is giving away a Das Keyboard to readers this month.…
My thanks to The Theme Foundry for sponsoring the RSS feed this week. The Theme Foundry has been building handcrafted premium WordPress themes since 2008. Earlier this month they released Avid — a responsive, retina-optimized WordPress theme for photographers. Visit the live demo of Avid to see it in action or purchase it now for $68. Sponsorship by The Syndicate
My thanks to Harvest for sponsoring the RSS feed this week. We're halfway through 2012. You can't buy that time back, but you can start tracking it wisely. Use Harvest to log your billable hours, and see where your business spends its time. Start a timer effortlessly from your desktop, web browser, or iPhone. Get insight into your projects with powerful, visual…
Ita is a brand new list-making app that's designed to make it fast and simple to collect and organize information. You can drag items to rearrange them, tap to mark items completed, and add multiple items quickly, all from the main list view. If you make lists, you'll love how fast Ita makes it to collect and complete your stuff. Ita is…
My thanks to Smile Software for sponsoring the RSS feed this week. The new TextExpander 4 from Smile dramatically increases the options for automating your work with advanced "fill-in" snippet types. They are great for creating form letter templates that can be personalized on the fly. Check out the (http://syndicateads.net/s/u) and see the new multi-line text fields, multiple choice popups, and optional…
My thanks to Igloo for sponsoring the RSS feed this week. "That's no moon. It's a corporate intranet!" ... 6 months later ... "I felt a great disturbance in our company — as if hundreds of employees cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced." Your intranet doesn't have to suck. At Igloo, we built a new intranet platform that combines social…
Plan websites with the newly redesigned Jumpchart. Now including design mockup approval. Try it free today!
My thanks to Omni Group for sponsoring the RSS feed this week. Sarah wakes up, prepares a full breakfast, and fires up her standard suite for design. Two new, time-consuming projects this week — it’s time to start planning much further than was previously warranted. Should’ve started yesterday. OmniPlan for iPad is perfect for this. An intuitive interface keeps unnecessary controls out…
My thanks to Harvest for sponsoring the RSS feed this week. * Harvest is a painless time tracking tool for creative professionals available anywhere you find yourself working. Track time via the web, desktop or your mobile device. Within seconds, turn your billable hours into an invoice. Get started with a free 30 day trial today.