Communicating at work changes constantly: different projects, different teams, different goals. Once you add different locations, everything gets harder. It’s tough to keep on task and meet milestones when your time is spent tracking down the people, information or documentation you need. It’s these tiny frustrations that take up your day. It doesn’t have to be this way.

You can work better, not just harder, with a collaborative intranet like Igloo.

An intranet should help you:

1. Access the information you need – anywhere, on any device
2. Co-author documents, track versions and get approvals in one place, without barraging you with email
3. Discuss ideas openly (or privately)
4. Ask questions as easily as popping over the cubicle wall
5. Replace meetings by narrating your work

Intranet doesn’t have to be a bad word.

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I’ve reached the point where I greet each new Apple prod­uct rumor with black, soul-crushing depression.

I’ve never been much for rumors. Indeed, I go out of my way not to cover them here or on the Mac Power Users. The fact is, Apple is a company full of smart people and smart people understand that in order to keep the lights on, they need to continue to innovate and ship products. Therefore, Apple will continue to innovate and ship products. I’m happy to wait until they are done. Sadly, the Apple rumors just magnify everything that is wrong with the Internet’s busted click to pay advertising model and Apple rumors will continue as long as people can make a few pieces of silver on it. What we can do, however, as a community, is not click, not cover, and generally ignore this fictitious digital vomit.

via Steve Stanger

If you are looking for a simple FTP client, Forklift, usually $30, is just a buck today. I reviewed this app a long time ago (2007) and for a dollar you can’t go wrong.

If you didn’t already know him, Lex Friedman is definitely one of the good guys. Moreover, it appears Lex is one of the smart guys. He and Marco Tabini just released an app, Let’s Sing (Paid Version) (Free Version) that is the love child of Draw Something and Name That Tune. I’m going to have so much fun with this.

1. It was going to be Flash-tastic, and I don’t like that.

2. Separating the video gives buyers the most options. You can put them in iTunes, or store it in a folder. You can also read the PDF separately.

It is a big download, weighing in at almost 900MB. Enjoy.

Overall, I’m thrilled with my first self published book. It is still #1 in the iTunes computer books category and I’m getting tons of great feedback. Moreover, yesterday I started a new Scrivener project. Stay tuned.

It is too early to tell but this may be the simple file sharing/uploading encryption solution we’ve all been looking for. Moreover, It is free for a few days so get it now.