Helperoo Released

My homeboys at meticulo have released Helperoo!

What is Helperoo you ask? Well, it’s a hosted email support desk with easy in mind. It’s simple, it’s light, and it’s fast. We think it’s especially perfect for all you 1-5 man shops.

Helperoo - Email support ticket system

Silly Season

Play with your vendor-specific runtimes. Don’t call me when you wake up one morning with a pink line in the round window and your BFF vendor won’t return your calls.

Well put

CAPTCHA

We don’t take security as seriously as we should at work; issues are handled when they come up. Recently a spam bot was abusing the contact form on our site. So we went out on the intraweb, searched on Google for CAPTCHA, and probably installed the first solution we came across.

However, I dislike the idea of CAPTCHA; images not accessible to everyone. So on our latest project, I used a simple logic field (1+1 = ?). I think this is a better solution, but not everyone agrees. Does anyone else have a better solution?

Uno

What took me so long to run Uno on my PowerBook? I really thought brushed metal and pin stripes (they become more subtle with each release) were ok. Hopefully Apple will head in this direction with Leopard.

Finder looks much better now:

Read more about Uno.

Twitter

I decided to give Twitter a try. My user name is ‘nummi’.

I Love Easter Eggs

I just puchased a copy of Cha Ching (the fun and easy to use money manager, done Mac OS X style). I’m not sure how long this has been here, but I opened up the ‘About Cha-Ching’ window and clicked on the icon. It played some audio that sounds akin to the McDonalds “I’m Lovin’ It” theme. The company logo also hoots like an owl.

Speaking of Easter Eggs, here is something a little more geek. Type this into Terminal.app:

cat /usr/share/calendar/calendar.history | grep "LOTR"

MacSanta Purchase

I decided to take advantage of MacSanta and purchased On The Job from Stunt Software. The killer feature that finally sold me was the Idle Time Checker. I walk away from my machine quite often and the ability to remove the idle time is much needed.

CSS text-stroke Support in Safari

Cool. Text strokes now supported with CSS in WebKit.