Company blog

I have a confession to make: I'm terrible at negotiating. I'm a complete pushover and I just can't hold my own.

inDinero is a startup company that's generating a lot of buzz for its simple approach to financial software for entrepreneurs and small businesses.

While similar in many respects to Dropbox, Syncplicity offers a few differentiating factors including the ability to sync any folder on your computer, and integration with web services including Google Docs.

Syncplicity is one of a number of file sync and backup services along the lines of Dropbox, but with a few extra features.

You've probably noticed by now that Google just made a major change to their search product. Results now appear as soon as you start typing your search query and they continually update as you refine your search.

I recently started checking out an online collaborative desktop service called Kohive.

At Less Annoying Software, customer service is very important to us for two reasons.

For reasons that aren't worth going in to, Tyler and I have recently begun the process of setting up a server through Rackspace's cloud services.

Staying organized can be a serious challenge, and the more unread emails you have piling up in your inbox, the more likely it is that something important will slip between the cracks. Google released a new feature this week to help solve this problem.

If you own a smartphone, you generally have two different options when you want to read web content.

Ok, so this title is a little inflammatory. Before getting into this, I should say that I am a huge fan of open-source software.

In the process of finishing, I've been stripped of a number of heavily subsidized student software licenses, and have been looking into replacing them with full licenses for my new job in the real world.

The consensus among most lean start-ups seems to be that you should spend as little time as possible in meetings reviewing strategies and projections, and you should instead spend that time actually building your company.

I've recently been doing some poking around for statistics about customer relationships manager (CRM) software, particularly the reasons that companies give when CRM software hasn't worked for them.

You may have heard that the Los Angeles Police Department made a $7 million deal with Google to move their email from a Novell system to Google Apps.

Simplicity is one of the most common themes on this blog. We like simple software, and we haven't been afraid to write about it in the past.

It's been about a month since our last product update, and we've made a lot of improvements. The most important change is our new "Groups" feature.

As you may have heard, Apple is expected to announce a new tablet tomorrow (January 27th).

As of Monday night, Less Annoying Software is officially live. What that means is that our software (the CRM I talked about earlier) is both stable enough and complete enough to be ready for real customers.

I realize that I haven't really talked about what Less Annoying Software will look like, so I'm going to spend this post briefly going over what we're working on.

The end goal for any smart software developer is to create something that the users enjoy. It matters little what the software does as long as people like using it.

Have you ever done a quick Google search before buying a product to check out how other people feel? Doesn't it seem odd how overwhelmingly negative the comments generally are?

As you know, this blog advocates the use of better software. Since we're developers, we tend to focus on how programmers and designers can positively impact software.

Since we're still in the early days of Less Annoying Software, the business model is still a little up in the air. We've got a pretty good idea of what we want to do, but there are a few things standing in the way.

Today's topic is probably the #1 reason a lot of software sucks: inertia.