• http://www.marketcircle.com/billings/
• http://clickablebliss.com/profittrain/
• http://stuntsoftware.com/onthejob/
• http://www.kedisoft.com/invoice/
• http://www.grandtotal.biz/GrandTotal/
• http://www.iggsoftware.com/ibiz/index.php
• http://involer.com/
• http://bloop.it/invoices-pro/

Feel free to try, but I’m more into web-based solutions for that kind of tasks.

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Here is a first selection of online invoicing systems:

• https://www.zoho.com/invoice/
• https://www.zoho.com/books/
• http://www.freshbooks.com/
• http://curdbee.com/
• http://www.getharvest.com/
• http://lessaccounting.com/
• http://www.roninapp.com/
• http://www.invoicera.com/
• http://www.getballpark.com/
• http://www.blinksale.com/
• http://www.clearbooks.co.uk/
• http://www.simplyinvoices.com/
• http://outright.com/
• http://waveaccounting.com/
• https://indinero.com/

As I said zoho and freshbooks are the most know Invoicing as a Service – IaaS providers. And the new zoho books provides unlimited invoice with a full accounting solution.
Curdbee is cost effective solution that offers the right essential features.
GetHarvest and Ronin provides project, time tracking, team management related features, which can be an important factor for you.

Last but not least, you should always look for a way to export (and import) your data in order to avoid customer lock-in. Off course the price can maybe help you, but most offers are below 25$ /month…

I must confess I’m a bit lost with all these solutions, so I’m open to any feedback.

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Here are a shot list of  the most known services for such tasks:

• http://aws.amazon.com/mturk/ the famous mechanical turk from Amazon
• http://microworkers.com/
• http://www.vworker.com/
• http://crowdflower.com/
• https://www.odesk.com/ and http://www.freelance.com/ are quite similar services to manage various jobs from design, to development or marketing (as already mentioned in my previous post)
• http://www.microtask.com/ a new one I discovered thanks to twitter, quite specific but can be handy sometimes

If you know other alternatives, especially ones that can be used outside US, feel free to share

1. Know a good designer (and if possible a good integrator for websites)
2. Buy a standard template
3. CrowdSource your project for logo or design

Today, I would like to share some crowdsourcing resources:

• http://99designs.com/
• http://www.crowdspring.com/
• http://www.designcrowd.com/
• http://brandstack.com/

These websites are intended for design, logo and website projects.
Yet another way is to find a contractor or freelance on http://www.elance.com/ or https://www.odesk.com/

Did you already try one of these services? And did you get full satisfaction ?

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Thanks to the “cloud”, there are (too) many solutions. They are usually referred as VPS, for Virtual Private Server.

Here are some alternatives if you need a VPS:

• http://www.linode.com one of the most know VPS provider
• http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/ rackspace is another well know VPS provider
• http://mediatemple.net from simple web hosting to full dedicated server, and also a professional CDN solution
• http://6sync.com a really cost-effective and scalable solution (and they seem quite active in social media)
• http://www.slicehost.com VPS provider with solutions similar to Linode
• http://vps.net various solutions: cloud hosting, on-demand 1-day server and CDN solution
• http://fstservers.com really cost-effective solution in Chicago

Of course I forgot to mention Amazon Web Services (AWS), that comes with a lot of different profesional solutions (EC2, S3, RDS, …) and with a price !!! Except if you go for the free tier solution

If you have specific feedback for one of these services or know any other good solution, feel free to share !

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Operating Systems usually provides “shortcuts” for that purpose: one click or a menu command is enough to launch your favourite application.

On the other hand, the browser do not provide the same ease-of-use. Of course, you can use bookmarks but they don’t come with a specific context.

In terms of usability, a (good) classic desktop application provide a clear interface and help you focus on your task. It’s not only a matter of features, but mostly of building a user experience (UX) around a specific usage context.

With Google Chrome and its market place, there is a new trend to better organize your web applications. Chrome provides a nice feature in the Tools menu: create an application shortcut. But only to Windows users, Mac OS X is waiting for this since 2009!

Firefox 4 takes a really nice approach to this problem with the new Pin as App Tab feature. You can now have a quick launch icon next to your browser’s tabs.

I hope there will soon be an Spotlight feature in modern browsers (or like Humanized Enso). I really would appreciate a CTRL+space then get a nice launcher of my favorite web applications, with a quick thumbnails, the right user environment (login/password/cookies), and  a minimal browser overhead (no tabs, no url, no status bar, …).

For the moment you basically have 3 ways to handle that kind of web application shortcuts under Mac OS X:

1. Hack Google Chrome with a shell script
2. Use the well know Mozilla Prism, which does the job pretty well (except you can’t have tabs and that can be messy with google docs for e.g.)
3. Or try Fluid, a Prism-like application with more settings but maybe a little slower

Feel free to share any other option, especially if you know a WebSpotLight

For the moment, I’m not a big fan of the Market application itself, because I found it to be not so handy to find application. Indeed, there are no sorting feature but only predefined sections, no auto-completion when you search an application by its name, the listing is not self-explaining (name+company but no quick descr). I hope these “small bugs” will be addressed soon…

Anyway, here is a quick short list of applications I installed during last week (and I intend to keep):

• Barcode Scanner
• Deezer
• Dropbox (and also https://www.dropbox.com/anywhere )
• eBuddy
• Facebook
• Foursquare
• Google Finance
• Google Goggles
• Opera Mini
• Seesmic
• Shazam
• Gtalk
• Twitter (or http://m.twitter.com/ )

That’s only the beginning and I definitely could use some advice of other experimented droid users

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Anyway, I’m still waiting for the buzz activation in my Gmail but I had some fun yesterday on the iPod touch. Looks like Google Buzz may overcome twitter, facebook and everything else by aggregating all the mess, fuzz, buzz in one “clean centralized place”.

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If you have ideas, inspiration sites or suggestions feel free to comment. In the meantime, I will start to look for a great new design compliant with my actual mood

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In these challenges, Apple is usually quite good at making WOW effect products. And somewhat yesterday the whole mac planet was waiting for such a big bang as when the iPhone came out. And yeah, Apple did a fine job, but not a great one as expected… This iPad is finally a nice giant iPhone without GPS and camera but including iWork (and iBooks).

This morning I have a bittersweet feeling that I can pinpoint to some missing or disappointing elements:

1. A thick border !  Why after the slim and tiny MacBook Air (and the whole MacBook family), did Apple release such a large ugly border screen ?
2. Let’s go back to the … past 4×3 aspect ratio ? I mean everybody is now HD or  Full HD in a cinema compliant 16×9 aspect ratio.
3. No webcams… no comments…
4. iPhone OS based huh! I get the technical/battery life/optimization idea, but why push so much work in porting iWork on iPhone OS. Or on the other hand why not offer the full Mac OS X SDK on a tablet computer ?
5. No GPS = No Location Based Service… sad again.

All these factors, let me really think that the iPad is finally an iDraft. A firts version not fully polished as we were used to by Apple and Steve.
EDIT: I just find out the mashable iPad missings article. I should add SD cards and HDMI in my list…

The Apple iPad

The Wavyx MacPad

Here is my ideal iPad:  a nice thin 16×9 device. You’ll notice the front webcam is upside, but I’m not it wouldn’t be better on the left side to ease video conferences with multiple contacts. On the back, I put 2 webcams. I know it’s too much but I was thinking about some Augmented Reality application  that could better capture the 3D environment with 2 webcams. So let’s say it’s an optional feature

By the way, it has a GPS and it’s of course Mac OS based, so more a MacPad  or MacTouch.

PS: I still searching through the specs, to find how much RAM is bundled but I hope it’s enough to have bigger application with less memory problems as on iPhone.

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Anyway, for this year I’ve summarized my resolutions in 3 themas:

1. OPEN
2. SOCIAL
3. PASSION

First I was gonna details these bullets but now I think they are really clear and suffices to themselves.
So feel free to ask for details, if you’re unsure about what I mean. In the meantime, let’s be an open social passionate electron in the Web Gen !

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Planes are like ants trying to find food and auto-organizing themselves (not necessarily with the shortest path). This recall me of the Ant colony optimization for solving TSP problem.

Here are some resources for the ACO optimization for TSP problems: http://www.scribd.com/doc/3689188/Ant-Colony-TSP-Optimization, http://www.ugosweb.com/Documents/jacs.aspx or http://www.idsia.ch/~luca/acs-bio97.pdf.

Moreover, this is a one shot generation so any “quick and dirty” solution would have satisfied me Here are the possible solutions I found:

• Webservices: there are plenty of webservices to generate webshots on the go. The pricing is quite low and this is definitely a quick way to build your webshots collection. Among others, you can check: webthumb, site thumbshot, Quick Thumbnail, Thumbalizr. You can check google for more…
• Applications: you can also (as I did) rely on simple applications/scripts like CutyCapt, IECapt, Paparazzi, webkit2png or khtml2png. On the first pass, I used CutyCapt, but on second pass I switched to IECapt since a lot of my websites needed flash plugin in order to render properly.
• Build your own server: there are also a couple of articles describing how to build you own webshot server: with python and qtwebkit, with firefox. You can also check thummer(a global webshot server solution) or this article.

For me, CutyCapt and IECapt (with some batch script) did pretty well