The Less Annoying Blog

Updates to Mac Chrome application shortcuts and the iOS fullscreen webapp generator

Posted by Bracken King on January 18th, 2011

Today I just wanted to mention updates to two utilities we've posted previously. The first comes courtesy of Mait Vilbiks who has generated an easier to use version of our Mac Chrome application shortcut generator (download the updat... Read more >

Visualize your Google Analytics data in Google Docs with a motion chart

Posted by Bracken King on January 11th, 2011

A while back I posted about how to automatically import Google Analytics data into Google Docs using a third party script. One of the coolest features of Google Spreadsheets is the motion chart which helps visualization of multi-dimensional d... Read more >

It's ok to adjust your expectations

Posted by Tyler King on January 6th, 2011

Today's post might seem off-topic, but it does relate to technology in the end. Bracken and I are fans of the St. Louis Rams. In case you don't follow football, they were expected to be horrible this year but then they ended up being o... Read more >

Tip: Imagine what your future self will think about how you spend your time

Posted by Tyler King on November 19th, 2010

My last post discussed what it means to be a lean startup. In it, I suggested that lean startups need to "release early and release often." This means that rather than trying to perfect your product before launch, you should get it out i... Read more >

The very basics of writing scripts in Google Docs

Posted by Bracken King on October 7th, 2010

Last week, I wrote a post about how to perform a simple mail merge in Google Docs. In the post, I mentioned that I'd eventually talk about how to modify the publicly available mail merge program to send more advanced or tailored emails. Before... Read more >

Bluffing is easy when you're not actually bluffing

Posted by Tyler King on September 22nd, 2010

I have a confession to make: I'm terrible at negotiating. I'm a complete pushover and I just can't hold my own. This weakness can really get in the way of my professional goals, but luckily I've come up with a little trick that I w... Read more >

Create application shortcuts in Google Chrome on a Mac

Posted by Bracken King on August 10th, 2010

One of the best features of Chrome is the ability to create "application shortcuts" that let you launch web sites as stand alone applications. Unfortunately, application shortcuts are disabled in Chrome for Macs. While other options exis... Read more >

Being better is a decent business plan

Posted by Tyler King on February 16th, 2010

As you probably know, Google released a new social networking feature called Google Buzz.  Just like any Google product, some people love it and some people hate it.  There are a lot of legitimate criticisms (mostly about the major privacy ... Read more >