• This easy sewing project makes an adorable handmade gift for a new baby in the family.

    Easy handmade gift: Baby bibs
  • Over the past year, I’ve been so busy working my butt off; here’s how I relax.

    Fallen in love with knitting
  • These were so awful that I had to save them for posterity. I’m not easily offended, I’m not a feminist in the least bit but I was truly bothered by these two t-shirt designs. Who in their right mind designed…

  • Over the past few years, QR codes have been used in various places as replacements for website URLs or to promote products. It’s always felt a little bit naff or unnecessary. Watching TV tonight, BBC Food promoted a specific recipe…

    Best usage of QR codes I've seen to date!
  • Lately, I’ve been meeting tons of great owners of small businesses with fantastic ideas, boundless enthusiasm and passion for their work. What struck me was how poorly equipped they were, technologically speaking. From working with computers that only booted when…

    8 Big Productivity Tools for Small Businesses
  • Last night, I gave a talk at Cambridge Mobile Apps Group (yeah, it’s a mouthful, I know!) about marketing your own app with no budget. When I arrived at the venue, Tony, the event host, shot over to say hi.…

    "Look Ma, no slides!": The Art of Speaking Without Slides
  • In recent months, we’ve printed the Alfred logo on stickers, handy little keyboard brushes and we’ve made our own bowler hats to wear at SXSW Interactive in March. Yet, I think this trumps them all; Alfred user and good friend…

  • A few days ago, Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (or EC2 to you and I) had a catastrophic failure. The world kept turning, but unfortunately, the third-party collaboration/SVN tool we use was on the affected East USA zone where the issue…

  • So far, 2011 has been hair-raisingly exciting, a bit daunting but a lot of fun. And next week promises to be yet another of those weeks. Like I’ve done for the past three years, I’m going to SXSW Interactive in…

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    How we run @alfredapp meetings