I did try.
In the recent years, more and more business people are using Mac for their daily activities.
I would imagine you would agree that viewing the current date on the screen is a common feature you would expect in the Mac OS.
Well, it is not a default feature.
(Maybe everyone should know the date or it is not cool to be in jet lag and loose your 'date anchor')
I found this post while searching for a solution:
http://lifehacker.com/software/mac-tip/display-the-date-on-the-menubar-316029.php
I would like to offer you the updated version for Mac OS 10.5.2.
Step 1: System Preferences > International > Formats >Customize...
Step 2: Select "Medium" and add "[" or "|". Copy the whole string.
Step 3: Customize Times.
Step 4: Paste the date string before the time setting.
Step 5: Click "OK" and see how it effected the menubar.
I hope that would help you.
E.T.
Mazal Tov! == Congratulations!
My Blogging 1st Birthday.
75 posts so far == once a week on average.
Thank you for your comments and feedback.
E.T.
This year for Father Day I got a special treat.
I flew with my kids to Israel to visit the family
(and to do some business as well).
There is nothing better for gaining back perspective than to spend 24 hours with 2 redheads... For example:
Strategic planning:
How to manage a 2 hours line(s) in LAX, while providing a hot lunch and 3 stops to the bathroom.
Technical challenges:
Find a replacement for a Nintendo DS Lite stylus while your daughter's pokemons are under fire...
Negotiations:
Manage expectation and execution of demands as 'I need to go...NOW!" while landing a 777.
We had a great time at the Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston.
This year, most of the energy was focused on 'how to' enable companies with 2.0 methodologies and capabilities and not just 'what is E2.0?'.
Many great vendors and a lot of the big players were presenting applications and services.
We were happy to have the opportunity to present as part of the launch pad, together with GroupSwim, NewsGator, Project SocialSite (SUN) and Spaceo.us.
The demo went very well. We streamed live video from the session as well as demoed or plug-in for Jive Clearspace.
Many thanks to the Veodia team in San Mateo for their support !! and to Tom and Guillaume for a great team work!!
Thanks to the audience - we received 39% of the votes and won!
(Photo by Alex Dunne)
View the demo, the votes and an interview with Sam Lawrence, Jive's CMO.
Some nice links and quotes:
Veodia Wins At Enterprise 2.0 Launchpad
--------------------------The people have voted, and Veodia won at the Enterprise 2.0 Launchpad an hour ago. Congratulations to them, and best wishes to them and the other four finalists.
The finalists:
Veodia -- 'live streaming video that puts your work in motion'
Project Socialsite -- 'delivering social networking functionality by adding social networking platform support based on the OpenSocial standard to any community site.'
Groupswim -- 'On-demand Social Collaboration and Community for Your Business'
Spaceo.us -- 'Bringing the REAL Enterprise 2.0 to your business' (they need a better tagline, I think).
Newsgator -- ' Deliver social computing business value with NewsGator Social Sites for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007'The process worked pretty well, although I think next year we might start with a Twitpitch as the first round.
Veodia Blog
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ondemandbeat
"...So, this was a contest, consisting of brief (three minute) elevator stories presenting their products by five of this week's vendors. The winner was to be voted on by the audience ("crowdware") using cell phone texting. The first four presenters did high-speed runthroughs of their highlight PowerPoint presentations. The last one, Veodia, a provider of high definition video as a service, featured live video of the event and the audience, very high definition. By far the coolest, and the audience agreed, voting them the winner with 39% of the overall vote, a 2:1 margin over the next highest score. An exhilarating way to end the morning..."
--------------------------Wins Launch Pad Competition at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference.
Large crowd nominates Veodia via live voting
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Enterprise 2.0 conference ‘Launch pad’ contest winners
"...Veodia were the victors in the Boston Enterprise 2.0 conference ‘Launch Pad’ contest for up and coming technologies, beating a strong field. Here’s Etay Gafni of Veodia, who recently left SAP to join this promising start up, demonstrating their winning technology with his opinion of why their enterprise video service won…"
Education.com, an education & child development site for parents, with parenting & educational resource, just got a new homepage design.
Good work Eliad!
E.T.
So, we finally made it to the Enterprise 2.0 Conference in Boston.
It was a long week+weekend but we have a lot to show, so all is good.
Some updates:
We updated www.veodia.com.
We also partnered with Jive Software and released the Veodia Plug-in for Jive Clearspace.
(demo, press release).
Tomorrow we will present in the launchpad.
We plan a live demo and some will share additional information about Veodia's services, products and directions.
Thx,
E.T.
http://www.10minutemail.com
This is a great service for all of us, who are 'forced' to have spam eMail accounts to be used in all kind of eMail verification processes for 'I just want to test it' kind of services, applications and sites.
(Very good for parents who need to sign in for every Webkinz/Penguin/Toon there kids would like to have - and to forget after 2 weeks... While the parent get alerts that the poor thing is dieing / alone / sad...)
It takes just one click to get a temp eMail and you can use it for 10 minutes (or more if you really need to...). The service is so simple, you actually receive the eMails within the same page, so we can access them and do what you need to do, without even deleting them...
Check the Video Tour (QT).
E.T.
This is a very nice movie that explains Social Media IN simple English.
At almost makes sense...
:-)
Social Media in Plain English from leelefever.
E.T.
Thank you for all your support.
Veodia was selected to present in the Enterprise 2.0 conference launchpad.
If you are in Boston - please come and see Veodia at booth 207
Thank you,
E.T.
In case you do not attend this event, you could see live broadcast of it on Veodia.
Latest updates on http://frenchtechtour.wordpress.com/
Live videos here:
http://veodia.com/site/portal_scroller2.php?portal=4809
and
On demand
http://veodia.com/site/portal_scroller2.php?portal=4750
Cool and useful.
E.T.
At Veodia we have many French team members.
Recently I attended several events around the IsraelWebTour and now it is time for the French Tech Tour.
Engaging with Analysts and the Media
Panelist guests:
"An image worth a thousand words" (as long as it does not take too much time to produce...).
Screen shot and screen cast (movies) are one of my key tools to communicate, design and share ideas and content.
It use to be hard to capture a good snapshot, clean it, resize it and then add some text and other graphics to support your message.
Not anymore.
In the last few months, I've been using Jing from TechSmith.
It is a great tool that allows me to take snapshots as well as movies and to save them locally or on their hosting service. Very easy to use and the latest update include copy to clipboard and some other features, making it powerful and simple to use.
Enterprise 2.0 conference is few weeks away and Veodia is getting ready.
We are going to announce some exciting news and to show you how to bring video to your business processes and daily activities.
+ I got a new suite...
But first...
We need your help. Please vote for Veodia to be part of the launchpad.
(We already won the first round...)
Please vote here:
http://launchpad.enterprise2conf.com/node/38
Thank you,
E.T.
Blast from the past...
Many years ago I used to work with a great designer and animator.
Renard (Renan) Gluzman.
I remember working with him on Macromedia Director 4 and looking how he drew and animate amazing screens pixel by pixel.
Long time since we last met.
Anyway, for Israel's 60 birthday, he decided to share his famous games for free.
Recently I read an interesting blog by Paul Kedrosky (Age and the Entrepreneur).
I have a theory that there are 3 time frames to start/join a start up:
Age 22:
Just finish army service (I am from Israel..). Young and Naive. Following some crazy ideas with some friends. Work hard and play harder.
After you spend some time in a start up, your spouse (which somehow you manage to find while working 16 hours a day) is fed up with your schedule and "ask" you to "find a real job". Or in my case, the start up is closed and/or acquired by a bigger company.
Age 35:
So you spent some time in a big company and learn how to do things, or how not to do things, you feel it is time to do something yourself. You pick up to phone and call your friends. If you are lucky / got smarter - there are not the same from the first start up... And you start your own or join a start up you believe in and know why you should be there.
(Let's hope your spouse is OK with you following this path again...)
Age 50:
Either you spent more than 20 year in a big company or worked for 10 start ups by now, you are ready to lead or support a new idea. You are a domain expert (or at least, other think you are) with no interest to work in the same domain... So you start, join or consult to a start up.
Does this theory work for you?
E.T.
Dear friend,
After more than 7 years at SAP, it is time for me to follow another path.
During the last 7 years I had the pleasure to be challenged with interesting (and sometimes impossible) projects and roles.
I am very proud to have been part of many activities, including training development, leading SAP's eLearning and knowledge transfer initiatives and team management, building SDN and seeing its success, managing global teams and operations and building many prototypes. Representing SAP in many '2.0' events and be a SAP Venture Fellow.
Last but not least, be part of SAP Ux, helping improving existing products and driving ideas for new products.
I am very happy to be part of the SAP ecosystem and more importantly, the SAP extended family.
I made many friends along these years (such as yourself), as well as many air-miles...
I had the opportunity to join a small start up, Veodia, and to help them design and build unique applications with real business value. So I did.
For those who worked with me in the past - Thank you!
And for all the others - Let's build some cool applications and bring value with Veodia.
E.T.
Sixtysecondtech.com is Cal Evans latest project.
As Cal describes it:
Sixty Second Tech is the cure for BSS
Sixty Second Tech is the only known cure for “Blank Stare Syndrome” (BSS). BSS happens when one of your technical friends starts talking to you and unconsciously slips into geek speak. They don’t realize they’ve triggered BSS until long after your eyes glaze over. BSS is an embarrassing condition but a curable one, just spend one minute a week listening to Sixty Second Tech.
My long time friend Shay Barry is making headlines in Israel.
Shay and I worked together for many years. He played (and still do) a key role in creating and developing SDN (SAP Developer Network).
It is good to see that his hard work and talent are recognized on this level.
The article in Globes.co.il.
Scan from the printed version:
Finally some design tips with some rhythm.
If only we could keep this attitude with our developers and designers all the way to production...
:-)
E.T.
