Entrepreneurship, technology and life

Most of the online software lost traction in my company after 1~2 months of implementation. One of the best features in SaaS (Software as a Service) model is that we get to try out the software in real environment and we can ditch the software if we decide that it is not something that we will continue using, without losing much investment. Here are a list of software that we still stick to religiously after three months (a gage for us on whether the software is working for us or not).  Some of these may have been covered before in my previous posts: Company laptop and the software needed , Integrating Dropbox into company's file system . Asana - Tasks Management This software is like a software customized to our order, we have tried many other tasks & project management software, including Wunderlist, Insightly, Podio, etc, just to realize that we need a simple tasks list that is shareable.   How We Use Asana On daily basis, I go through: Inbox:...

Going green to me means being easy on the environment, but whatever we are implementing must also make sense (it can't be too tedious for users) and cents (it has to be same or lower in cost).  Here are some "Go Green" strategies that we have implemented in the office: Office Printer When shopping for our new printer, the requirements are: Laser printer with separate drum and toner unit.   Laser toner is much more economic than inkjets and we also make sure the laser printer we are getting have separate drum and toner unit as the drum unit usually have longer life cycle than the toner. Duplex printing , so that we can save on papers by printing on both sides of the paper without manually flipping and re-feeding the papers. Extra tray for recycle papers (papers that have been printed on one side only).  Please note that we only feed the tray with recycle papers that do not contain confidential information. Scan-to-email function.   Together with a vir...

I'm a strong supporter of open-source, freeware and SaaS (Software as a Service).  We have recently switched half of our company's computers into MacBook Pro.  Here are a list of software that we installed (or not installed, if we are using SaaS) for common office tasks on all MacBook Pro.  Most of them work on Windows as well since we were previously living in that world. Photo credit: Toni Cuenca Text document, Spreadsheet: OpenOffice  (Free) Presentation: Keynote  (USD19.99).   We previously used OpenOffice for presentation. E-mail, Calendar, Address Book: Google Apps  (Free for 10 users) Anti-Virus: None, however we do run as Standard User instead of Admin on our MacBook.   We previously used Avast on our Windows computers. I am a strong advocate for Google Mail (part of Google Apps) as I have used Microsoft Outlook/Outlook Express, Mozilla Thunderbird and some webmail solutions, but nothing come close to Google Mail, in the se...