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Posted by Stuart Carmichael on Saturday, January 14, 2012, In : Mechanics

There is a big difference between doing something that is a waste of a time and something that wastes your time. It's the difference between drifting backwards or moving, if only painfully slowly, forward. It's also the difference between doing an excellent job on the wrong thing or doggedly pursuing something great.

Many seemingly important tasks fall squarely into the category of "things that are a waste of time". You can keep your desk perfectly tidy. You can hold meetings with lots of ...

Getting yourself found above the search engine clutter is an interesting feat. A whole industry of search engine optimization exists to help you rise above the noise. SnapEng so far seems to have faired well in the googolplex without any special tricks of the trade. This seems to be based on three lucky hunches and the unexpected help from a host of app catalog sites.

The first hunch was to create a name, a tag that was unique and unexploited as a URL address. SnapEng did not show up in se...

Tax Off, Tax On

Posted by Stuart Carmichael on Tuesday, December 20, 2011, In : Mechanics

Who would have thought resolving a pending tax issue could be so exciting? But that was just what it felt like when my iOS Paid Applications contract with went from Pending Tax to Processing and then quickly to Effective. Getting started with a development certificate and putting my app onto my own iPod was straight forward. Getting it a spot in the app store was a little more involved. Here is an outline of events and some hindsight.

As it sometimes is, the internet was long on informa...

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