Some recent posts at the 37signals Product Blog:

The Weekly Review offers tips on using GTD with Highrise
“The key with any GTD setup is to make sure your tool fits your working style. So far, Highrise works for me…You add each project as a person. That’s it. Then add the different tasks for each project. Each project will now have it’s own page where you can add tasks, notes, tags and summary information about the project. Each of these pages also has a timeline summary of activities that have occurred.”

Backboard is a new app that makes Backpack more Mac-like
Backboard is Lars Steiger’s new app which bills itself as “the far side of Backpack.” That means it gives Backpack customers a dashboard-like overview of tasks, the ability to edit and search them with a more Mac-like interface, and the ability to attach dates and priorities.

Script to import Salesforce data into Highrise
In “Salesforce to Highrise conversion successful,” Highrise Forum member mikesax offers up a conversion script that takes a Salesforce offline backup (what you get when you close down your account or you request it) and converts it to an Outlook-style CSV file that you can import into Highrise.

Export a Basecamp project as a PDF file
Terrence Ryan created Basecamp CFC so he could export an entire Basecamp project as a PDF file.Tech2.0: Basecamp lives up to the hype
Tech2.0 looks at five hot web apps that “meet a higher standard than hype.” #1 on the list: Basecamp.

GeniDo, a new third party app in the works, lets you use Basecamp offline
“The application adds offline processing capabilities to Basecamp. The feature allows users to manage project without internet access and synchronize with online BaseCamp at convenience.”

Wired: Ta-Da List for iPhone sign of improvement in mobile web apps
“Are we imagining it, or are mobile web applications getting a whole lot better since the Dawn of the iPhone? The side-effect of Apple’s closed platform is an explosion of iPhone-friendly services, especially from the makers of the web’s prettiest and most functional tools, such as 37signals’ Ta-Da List for iPhone.”

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“In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is.” -Jan L.A. van de Snepscheut

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I’ve been a virtual desktop user for a long time. I have Rails development on one, 37signals apps on another, communication on a third, feed reading and browsing on a third, and a few spares for clean-slate thinking.

These desktops all fall under the notion of task partitioning, not app partitioning. They all have Safari windows, many have TextMate windows and terminals too. Gruber has described the trouble with trying to fit this pattern on Spaces in the past.

But it seems that all you need to have bliss is two things: The latest version of TextMate (1455), which forces the Find windows to appear on the current desktop instead of the last on they were used on.

And then this neat hack from Mac OS X Hints that let’s you turn off the default Spaces behavior of switching desktops when you select an application that doesn’t have a window on the current. Which is mighty annoying when you want a Safari window on your communication desktop, but are forced to either right-click the dock for one or go to the programming desktop, click new, and then drag the window down to communications.

Between these two fixes, I’m now a content Spaces users and no longer wish for a Leopard port of the good old DesktopManager.

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New startup YouNoodle debuted to some first class press coverage this morning - a headline in the NYTimes that reads “A Start-Up Says It Can Predict Others’ Fate.” The really choice quote from the article from CEO/co-founder Bob Goodson is this:

“Give us some information, and we’ll give you some idea of what the company will […]

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High-definition video is creeping into our browsers. Today, Dailymotion began offering a smattering of videos in HD. There is nothing you’d actually want to watch—mostly a bunch of trailers for video games—other than to see what HD looks like on your computer screen. But be warned: you need two megabits-per-second download speeds to […]

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Photography: Jeremy Mason McGraw
Make a list of the most desirable jobs in photography and there’s a good chance that travel photography would come close to the top. Make a list of the toughest jobs to land in photography and flying around the world, staying in exclusive hotels and shooting beautiful locations would hold about the […]

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An assignment brought Martin Joergensen and Nikonian’s On Location podcast out to do some landscape shooting.

Click here to download Nikonians On Location Podcast #8 (NPC-OL-2008-02-18; 38:16; 35.8MB, MP3 format).
Video supplement available here (NPC-OLV-2008-02-18; 16:10; flash format).

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We cover a lot of startups here at TechCrunch, but I don’t recall ever having covered a startup that thinks it can use artificial intelligence to predict whether other startups will be successful. YouNoodle promises to do just that.
The site opens to the public today, and they chose the NY Times to pitch their product:
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If you live in a cold climate and you’re sick of paying to keep your food cool when it’s already plenty cold outside, web site The Daily Green describes how to build your own Ambient Air Fridge to put that cold air to good use. The author uses everything from two-by-fours to computer fans to complete the project, which requires a bit of dedication to the cause, but if you’re willing to put in the effort you’ll be rewarded with an environmentally friendly, money-saving winter fridge.

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Windows only: Hard drive failures are like car breakdowns—we all know there’s one coming for every unit out there, but it’s possible to plan ahead with an occasional checkup. Free Windows hard drive utility HD Tune gives you a full read-out on your hard drive’s health, including live temperature, supported transfer modes, and all the standard S.M.A.R.T. data, as well as offering full scans to check for bad sectors. HD Tune didn’t know much about my non-NTFS/Windows-formatted partitions, but it’s overall a robust way to see how your main data store is running without leaving a memory-eating background app running. HD Tune is a free download for Windows systems only.

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