EditGrid, the online spread­sheet app that mimics Excel in format and function­ality, sent me a survey a week ago through email. The survey sought my thoughts on the following questions: Use Cases: What are you using EditGrid for? Features: What new features do you desire the most? Usability: How can we present our features better to […]

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I recently tried out EditGrid, in response to a post by Dennis on recent enhance­ments. I had already been using Google Spread­sheets a little bit, but not too much, because, quite frankly, it just wasn’t all that intuitive. I consider myself a fairly advanced Excel user, and Google Spread­sheets just didn’t have the same level […]

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It was a long time ago in internet years that I started reading Dave Winer’s blog, Scripting News, and even longer since I started reading Jakob Nielsen’s writings on his site, useit.com. These two are truly pioneers of the digital age, with Winer instru­mental in the devel­opment and promotion of RSS and Nielsen writing the […]

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I need to commend the publi­cation of my profession here in Canada, CA Magazine, for offering the full content of each issue online as soon as the physical copy of the issue arrives on my doorstep. There are many magazines that charge for access to their full content, but CA Magazine realizes that increased readership […]

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Dennis Howlett recently announced a new accounting web app called FreeAgent, which looks pretty cool and seems to be approaching an age-old problem in a new way: All the well known products and services are geared towards people who already under­stand the funda­mentals of book-keeping. Sage, Intuit and others will argue they’ve simplified the user interface […]

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