Productivity with Apptimo

Apptimo has posted a new beta update for Activity. It appears that they changed the name to Actibly by Apptimo . I contacted de PR person at Apptimo, and they indicated that Actibly is a mashup for the " terribly active " person. Also, they are now pushing a new motto for their platform, which I think it really summarizes the scope of their app: Create / Keep / Share / Organize From the announcement that can be seen in the application's Inbox (when you are an Apptimo user), this is the information provided for the recent update: 2.0.3 beta Actibly 2.0.3 beta Activity 2 is now Actibly by Apptimo. A new name for Activity 2, plus some new handy features including: Save as App , now allows to save the app in your Chrome desktop browser in or in your Android mobile Chrome browser (iOS and Mac OS support coming soon). Chat , the chat window now opens directly, and it displays a new better layout for easier reading. Tag a Folder , you can now mark a folde...

Apptimo has just launched their SMS for Apptimo service in beta mode. I am actually reviewing this new service, and I have to tell that it works great. It has many interesting and powerful texting options for the workspace and groups. It will clearly expand the possibilities to send mobile text notifications to your contacts, clients, providers, etc. Mainly you and your teams will be able to reach any of your contacts that are not using the Apptimo apps. I will post the results of my review soon.

Hurricane Irma caused a lot of electrical power mischief along her thunderous way throughout South Florida. Before the storm peaked, my home-office suffered a 9 second power shut-down. Everything got disconnected, and when power came back, it looked that things were OK. Well, sort of... My desktop computer, a Mac mini with an Intel Core i7 CPU was off, as it should have been after a power disconnect. I tried to power it back, to no avail. My loved Mac mini was dead. I tried to perform all the procedures recommended in the support forums, but it looked like the problem was actually with the computer's power supply. I checked my repair options, and most of them seemed expensive. Meanwhile, I was using an old white MacBook (Core 2 Duo), which was still working albeit with an older Mac OS X version. Looking at my options, I just didn't want to spend a lot of money on one of the new, slim and good looking MacBook Pro's. My current computing platform was heavily relaying on...