Find Motive

FindMotive has been up just under 2 months and I am very happy with how it has grown. Currently 51 posts have been made under 4 categories and an average of 20 RSS subscribers. Thanks for reading and supporting FindMotive!

P.S. Today is my birthday. I am 22…I am old.

BugJuice is an easy to use bug tracking web app which cuts the bloat and gets to the point. Each bug tracked has a priority and several questions which sum up all information about the issue like, “What Happened”, “What Should Happen”, and “How To Replicate Bug”. BugJuice supports multiple users and is free to sign up. Paid plans are also available.

BugJuice has no frills, but it gets the job done, which I like very much. If your software has a bug, the last thing you want to get in your way is the bug tracker.

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WWDC 2006 had some interesting banners this year. I think blunt is the word I’m looking for…I love it.

Indiefy will be launching this fall in 2 stages. First launch will be an artist signup only. This will give artists a chance to grab their accounts and upload their music and also preload Indiefy with music for listeners. After this is completed Indiefy will be launched in full for listeners as well.

Development is rolling along smoothly and new features are being tweaked. Please stay tuned for updates!

Read here to find out more about Indiefy.

Get more sleep. Noah is grumpy.

DingQuote, which launched this month, is called “flickr for words” by one of its founders Matt Eber. You can add quotes to DingQuote from the site itself or you can send them from your mobile phone or by email. So if someone says something funny on those Friday nights and your not by a computer, just send it to your DingQuote account from your cell phone.

DingQuote is a beta service, but future features are planned which include: tagging, friends list, and much more.

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I have been tweaking the design on Indiefy lately and I’ve noticed some rendering issues in Internet Explorer.

Originally the layout images for Indiefy were PNG files since I thought that was the best way to go and probably still is if it weren’t for IE screwing with me. IE seems to render certain colors in PNG images darker than they are supposed to be.

The image below is a screenshot of the bottom corner of Indiefy. You have to look kind of hard, but you can see that the IE version makes the border gradient darker than the background color of the page so the gradient does not smooth out. I have not tested this in IE7, but I don’t have much faith that it will be fixed.

So Internet Explorer and PNGs do not get along. There is also the famous issue of IE not supporting alpha transparency in PNGs. Fixing that would make designer’s lives so much easier. Oh well, no one said this would be easy.

Tick, by Molehill, is a time tracking web app which allows you to track time by client, project, and task. It can also be integrated into your Basecamp account. Lately there seems to be a flood of ToDo lists and project management apps, but none I have seen focus specifically on time. Tick is very well designed and is aesthetically pleasing to the eyes. One of the best designed web apps I have seen this year. If web apps were high school girls then Tick would be prom queen.

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Talk to local data center about colocation and/or dedicated servers. I needs me some rack space.