http://www.paulirvine.com Software, Technology, Guitars and Music Sat, 24 Apr 2010 02:25:39 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Palm Pre Plus / webOS comes with built in sync for exchange calendars, but not for outlook calendars. I have Outlook 2007 and use it for accessing a couple of hosted exchange accounts (POP without calendar), and multiple imap accounts. So there was no apparent way to ... http://www.paulirvine.com/2010/04/23/palm-pre-plus-sync-calendar-to-outlook-for-free/ After dragging my heels on the whole smartphone thing, I finally decided I had to switch from my aging flip thingy. And it takes me ages to review everything on the market, consider what's coming, and make a choice. A key factor for me is I need to ... http://www.paulirvine.com/2010/04/23/palm-pre-plus-review-it-is-excellent/ Can't help it... Immi is really producing some incredible music.  She did Rollin' and Tumblin' with Jeff Beck a while ago, and again on the Live At Ronnie Scott's DVD. Outstanding. This is her latest output. And if you get the chance check out the Youtube performance of ... http://www.paulirvine.com/2010/02/19/imogen-heap-and-ellipse/ Today was fun.  It was the first day that my new product, Basecamp Viewer, was officially available as a freeware product.  Yes, there is a subscription SaaS version coming soon, but this was ready to roll, so why not. And downloads have started already!  Which is even more fun! I'm busy working ... http://www.paulirvine.com/2010/01/20/new-services-new-product-new-adventures/ If not a dirty word, it certainly seems to have become a misused and abused word that represents many things to many people, and often has little - if anything - to do with the principles embodied in the Agile Manifesto. I've now had several CEO's look to me for ... http://www.paulirvine.com/2009/11/11/has-agile-become-a-dirty-word/ I'm new to GTD in any formal sense, but had been looking for an easy to use todo list meets project tasks meets reminder meets organizer meets external memory brain dump type device.  Like many others, I've found that managing all the things that you need to do in a ... http://www.paulirvine.com/2009/09/11/evernote-is-great-for-gtd-even-reminders/ We've all been there, right? You have an applicant for a job, and you are taking up references.  If the applicant has half a brain, then you will be given references that are the best they can summon.  If you do the usual "what can you tell me about Joe?" ... http://www.paulirvine.com/2008/08/31/getting-references-to-spill-the-beans/ I can't believe I never listened to this guy while he was alive! As a guitarist myself, I have a lot of music in the 'guitar geek' category... the usual suspects like Al Dimeola, Eric Johnson, Satch and Steve Vai... but I never really got Shawn Lane.  Yikes... what an ... http://www.paulirvine.com/2008/08/21/two-words-shawn-lane/ At who? Accero. Watch out for this one.  I was minding my own business with the wonderful team at Earth Class Mail... you know... changing the world and slaying dragons (wrestling with sweaty Titans as one of my ex-team used to proclaim!)... and along came this rather unique opportunity. Especially ... http://www.paulirvine.com/2008/08/21/movin-on-new-position-at-accero/ Hulu TV (http://www.hulu.com/start-up-junkies) is now running all eight episodes from this reality series about life at Earth Class Mail in the early days. It was fun, there are a lot of 'dead bodies' along the way, bumps, wins, misses, glitches, successes, all the fun of the startup environment. If ... http://www.paulirvine.com/2008/06/02/startup-junkies-all-8-episodes-on-hulu-tv/