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More Joost?

As a little thank-you gift, we’ve given you 5 more invitations in your “My Joost” invitation widget for you to share with them.

My last round of sending invites went quite well and now have received another 5 more invites to send. Drop me a comment if you’re interested. Cheers!

*Edit* 30/04/2007 1640
All 5 invites went out within 30 minutes of the post… so i guess will have to wait till next round for those who are reading this now.

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Getting Real: The Book by 37signals

Getting Real is the business, design, programming, and marketing philosophies of 37signals — a developer of web-based software used by over 1 million people and businesses in 70 countries.

Source: Getting Real: The Book by 37signals

Just discovered this book from 37signals, a team I admire for their simplicity in product design that caters to the customer. There’s the FREE version that you can browse through online or PDF purchase. Some of the concepts mentioned in the book on developing Web apps are spot-on as I’ve come to realise after a few iterations of developing software. Sometimes, just getting the interface right first is really more important than a bunch of specs and documents. Building lightweight ready to run software would be something I shall strive for in current and upcoming projects.

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Don’t forget the attachment for your e-mail

I’m sure it has happened to you before. Write a long email and then just hit send before adding the important attachment. Well, I usually can remember not to make the mistake but here’s a good tip that will help avoiding the follow-up email with attachment.

If you are sending an email with an attachment, add the attachment first, then compose the message, and then add email addresses to the send line. Now there’s no chance you’ll have to send the ever-popular “whoops, forgot to attach the file” follow-up.

Source: How to always remember email attachments

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Web Design & Programming for Car Lingual Pte Ltd

Client: Car Lingual Pte Ltd
Business Type: Car Automotive
Project: Car Lingual Website
Website: www.carlingual.com.sg

Car Lingual is a Singapore parallel car importer. On9 Systems was commissioned to create an online showroom of the cars that are sold as well as to provide an online profile of the company.

Car Lingual Pte Ltd
210 Turf Club Road
Lot A11, A12, A27, A28
Turf Club Auto Emporium
Singapore 287995
Tel : 65 6463 3777
Fax : 65 6463 2777
Email : enquiry@carlingual.com.sg

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Google Office Tools: Timesheeting – Google Powered Office Tools | Google Groups

I tend to track a lot of project issues and tasks using Outlook but increasingly find myself using Google Calendars so this tool looks like a good way to track time for projects. Should be very useful to business owners who need to estimate on project costs and freelance jobs?

Link to Google Office Tools: Timesheeting – Google Powered Office Tools | Google Groups

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Lifehacker Code: Better Gmail (Firefox extension) – Lifehacker

If you’re using Gmail like I do for most of email/calendar/docs/etc, you should take a look at Lifehacker’s compilation of Greasemonkey scripts for Gmail. If you don’t know what Greasemonkey is, download Firefox and start looking at how to boost your productivity each day with these simple scripts!

 

Gmail‘s good, but it could be better. We’ve featured several Greasemonkey scripts that enhance Gmail in lots of different ways – like adding saved searches, attachment icons, label colors, keyboard macros, a filter assistant and right-click conversation previews. But not everyone wants to install Greasemonkey and hunt down all those scripts.

Source: Lifehacker Code: Better Gmail (Firefox extension) – Lifehacker

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Installing Windows Home Server

Its a long weekend this week and I thought I would finally get some time to install Windows Home Server on the home central storage server (Sun). Unfortunately, I hadn’t realised that the Cremax 3HDD enclosure had a problem with the 3rd channel and this caused the RAID-5 array to go CRITICAL! Gave me a scare and being a little silly, I rushed down to SLS to get a replacement 250GB hdd.

Upon getting back, I found out that directly connecting the IDE cable from the Promise Fastrack SX4000 to the 3rd hdd solved the issue. Good thing hdd are cheap nowadays so shall reserve the new drive for the MCE box which seem to be developing some problems.

Anyway, burnt the Beta 2 dvd of WHS and popped it into SUN and guess what? SUN has 2 x PC133 256MB ram in the slots but ONLY DIMM2 works! The AZZA U601BS Mainboard with P3 CPU now has 256MB instead! Sigh, I guess I’ll need to look into getting a new motherboard for this setup to work.

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