Archive for the ‘Minimalism’ Category

FruitfulTime TaskManager 2 Launched

July 1, 2008

As I wrote in my last blog post, I was busy working on FruitfulTime TaskManager 2.

Today I am happy to announce that after months of hard work, today we launched FruitfulTime TaskManager 2.

Time to celebrate :D

Go check it out and download your own free 10 day trial from here.

Installation is only 300KB, so you can download and install in less than a minute :)

Alive and kicking

June 4, 2008

It has been a while since my last blog post here since I was busy with some other stuff. Last month I had my degree exams and as you can imagine that was a busy month. After the exams were over I continued to work on the next version of FruitfulTime TaskManager.

FruitfulTime is a startup company developing productivity software, and I am co-founder along with my friend Gaetano. Our first product, FruitfulTime TaskManager is a simple, lightweight, yet powerful to do list management software.

Following the success we had with the first version, we continued to research ways to improve the product further and include feature requests received from our customers.

The next version of FruitfulTime TaskManager is a major release and includes many enhancements and new features which further simplify the product whilst making it more functional.

You can read more about FruitfulTime TaskManager 2 here.

Google’s simplicity vs Yahoo’s complexity

April 19, 2008

I continued to think about what I wrote in last Wednesday’s post, The Minimalist March to Success, and did some more research on the internet. While doing so, I came across two interesting posts one by Jeff Atwood of Coding Horror fame, and the other one by Prof. John Maeda, associate director of MIT’s Media Lab, on his blog simplicity.

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The Minimalist March to Success

April 16, 2008

In this post I want to focus on what I feel is a recurring pattern adopted by all of today’s successful technology companies, minimalism.

Let me take the following companies as an example to support this argument: Microsoft, Google, and Yahoo. You’ve all heard about them and most probably you either hate them or love them. With all probability you either witnessed or have been part of a flame war involving a combination of these companies. If not, just head to slashdot and go through some of the posts. I am confident you will find evidence of endless conversations in the line of my platform is better than yours, Bill Gates is evil, Google rocks, Yahoo sucks and so on and so forth.

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