How To Name Your Company

thinkvitamin.com: "Successful entrepreneur Michael McDerment advocates following a rigorous process for determining that all important company name. Here are his tips for making the right decision"

Short sweet article.

Firefox 3 To Support Offline Apps

"Firefox 3 will deliver support for offline applications. This is significant because you'll be able to use your web apps - like Gmail, Google Docs & Spreadsheets, Google Calendar, etc - in the browser even when offline... Although Mozilla is an open source organization, some of its top workers are employed by Google."

This is very interesting. There are a number of companies out there building add-on utilities and system extensions for synchronizing traditional desktop apps with online counterparts. For example, Spanning Sync for Google Calendar. If the browser can do this for you, and support a wide variety of online apps, then one of the largest barriers for web app adoption will be knocked down.

Freeverse Offers Us A Chance To "Think"

"Freeverse today announced the first official release of Think, a streamlined application to shift your workflow from overwhelming to under-control with just the flick of a mouse. Think allows users to "illuminate" any Mac OS X application they'd like, blocking distractions from other windows and applications, so that they can focus on the task at hand. Since many work projects require multiple applications, Think also allows guest applications to be temporarily brought forward, and when no longer needed, quickly hides them away. Think is available as a free Universal Binary for Mac OS X 10.4.3 or later."



This is a nifty utility, it basically turns any application into a Writeroom-style environment, by blacking out anything that's not part of the app in focus. It's most noticable in apps that you may not use in full screen mode, or those without a lot of palettes.