Web Design and Development

NextGen Healthcare builds software that improves patient care and reduces healthcare costs. Now we're bringing the best of the cloud, social media, and mobile to

Sr. Software Engineer - UI Req #: 2892 # Positions: 2 Location: US-TX-Austin Experience (Years): .. Apply for this Job: * Apply for this job online * Refer a

…art technology - high-speed custom hardware, multicore processors, and multi-threaded software architectures. We couple these technologies with market leading user

Business Title UI Engineer Requisition No. 51801BR Category Tech - Software Engineers Subsidiary X.Commerce Position Area US - Texas - Austin Position Location

Requisition #: S891130 Location: UNITED STATES.TEXAS.AUSTIN Job Title: Senior UI Software Engineer Region: AMERICAS Area of Interest: Engineering - Software

Title: Embedded Senior Software Engineer UI development Location: United States-Texas - Austin Other Locations: United States-Texas - Plano Description If you

Title: CSC UI Senior Software Engineer - 200 Location: Americas-United States-Austin Other Locations: Join the team that'stransforming the way the world

…so we can better serve customers and enter new markets. We invent, engineer and deliver technology solutions that drive business value, create social value and

Business Title- UI Engineer Requisition No.- 51801BR Category- Tech - Software Engineers Subsidiary- X.Commerce Position Area- US - Texas - Austin Position

When it comes to security software companies, nothing compares to working at Rapid7. We've been at the forefront of the unified vulnerability management revolution and

Calendar applications are great, but sometimes you need to track how many days until an upcoming event. Or in some cases, you might want to track how many consecutive days you’ve been doing something; handy for monitoring health and other activities. D-Day, found in the iTunes app store, is a free iOS program that manages both scenarios, making it a must-have app on my iPhone.

The software is pretty simple; you just enter a date on one of the three tabs to track days left, days past, or days until someone’s birthday. You can easily customize the title of what you’re tracking and the events can be added to your native calendar app or be set to repeat.

My main purpose for finding and using D-Day is my running streak, which I began on January 1, 2011. Today, for example, is my 400th consecutive day of running at least a mile. I need the daily counter that D-Day provides me for my running log. For additional fun, I keep track of my age in days. The app tells me that today I woke up for the 15,524th day. My kids swear I don’t look a day over 15,000, so the running must be helping.

Click to view slideshow.

Although my primary purpose for D-Day is my running streak, I’ve found it can be useful for so much more. People who stopped smoking and want to keep track of how long since that last light-up can use D-Day. Maybe you want to track how long it’s been since a quiet date with your significant other. (Trust me mobile younglings, this becomes important later in life as date night frequency drops off you’ve been alive for that 10,000 days!) Or perhaps you have a goal to lose 10 pounds in 100 days; D-Day can be your iOS countdown buddy for that or an upcoming project.

The free version of D-Day is ad-supported and there’s an in-app purchase option to go Pro for $0.99. The lite version is working  just fine for me as I’ve used it daily for the last 400 days.

Related research and analysis from GigaOM Pro:
Subscriber content. Sign up for a free trial.

• 2012: Data, spectrum and the race to LTE
• Mobile Q2: Smartphone growth surges; iPad’s rule continues
• How to Ride the Freemium App Wave to Success

NextGen Healthcare builds software that improves patient care and reduces healthcare costs. Now we're bringing the best of the cloud, social media, and mobile to

Sr. Software Engineer - UI Req #: 2892 # Positions: 2 Location: US-TX-Austin Experience (Years): .. Apply for this Job: * Apply for this job online * Refer a

Job Title: Software Engineer Test- UI San Francisco or Sunnyvale Profession: Computer Engineering and Information Technology -> Testing/Quality Assurance Like

…leaders in this space. We are looking for a gifted, energetic, and seasoned principal-level software engineer to join our team in building the future of our vision.

Healthy collaboration is a target many aim for but many miss. Why? It’s far easier to say you want your team to work smoothly together without too much stress than it is to actually accomplish the open sharing and feeling of unity, trust and purpose that demands.

Just knowing that collaboration is easy to screw up isn’t of much use though. What would be truly helpful would be a specific taxonomy of the mistakes that frequently hobble teams, including the emotional and irrational complexities that can bedevil collaboration, as well as a benchmark survey of how the best teams manage to get everyone working together well. Handily, that’s just what a new study by Collaborative Coaching and Resonance Strategies aims to find out.

Through two small pilot studies the partners have developed a survey that digs down into what separates mere team members from true team players by asking participants to detail the differences between their ideal team and their actual experiences working in supposedly collaborative groups. Participants also signal their emotional impressions of teamwork by choosing from an array of sketched facial expressions. “These facial expressions are true in all cultures,” explains Yosh Beier, co-founder of Collaborative Coaching. The word disgust, say, may carry different resonance n India and Indiana, so using pictures takes away the danger that differences in culture or language could skew the results.

And even after examining a small sample of just over a hundred responses, Beier explains, he and his research partners are starting to see intriguing patterns emerge, including generational differences, common complaints about the current reality of teams (lack of recognition and excessive workload prominent among them) and similar notions of what moves a team from bearable to exciting.

What we find is there is a certain amount of results that people want to accomplish, so if a team doesn’t even manage to achieve its goals then that is very frustrating and dominates the experience. But it’s a little bit like Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. The moment teams reach a critical amount of ability to really produce results then results aren’t that important any more and other factors dominate such as connection and cohesion. People wonder: Do I see purpose? Is this meaningful for me? How much of a challenge is this?

There is also a generational theme. So far, the younger the respondents, the less happy they are with the current state of affairs on their teams.

It’s too early yet to determine if the youngest team members are the most frustrated simply because they have the highest expectations, Beier says, and an insufficient number of remote workers have so far taken the survey to conclusively determine if being virtual changes teams’ interactions or expectations. So the researchers are rolling out the survey to a number of firms, including consultancy W.L. Gore, and are also making it available online to anyone interested in participating. The only criterion for eligibility is experience working collaboratively. So if you feel like aiding an investigation of how to make teams truly gel and explore your own feelings about collaboration, 15 minutes is all you need to complete it. We’ll keep you posted on the results.

In your experience, what are the key factors that make a team really click so they can be effective collaborators?

Image courtesy of Flickr user woodleywonderworks.

Related research and analysis from GigaOM Pro:
Subscriber content. Sign up for a free trial.

• Millennials in the enterprise, part 1: strategies for supporting the new digital workforce
• The Future of Work Platforms: An Overview
• Report: High-Impact Collaboration in the Enterprise

HP continues to divulge bits and pieces of a road map for the ill-starred and nearly-orphaned webOS. The company has followed up its December plan to release webOS mobile platform and development tools with a proposed timeline, with a full release set before year’s end.  Some people see a life for the associated Enyo JavaScript framework aside from any success or failure webOS ultimately achieves.

Job Title: Software Engineer Test- UI San Francisco or Sunnyvale Profession: Computer Engineering and Information Technology -> Testing/Quality Assurance Like

…leaders in this space. We are looking for a gifted, energetic, and seasoned principal-level software engineer to join our team in building the future of our vision.

App developer Readdle has been very busy lately. A big update arrived recently for its PDF Expert software, and now the company is also launching a brand new note-taking and PDF annotation iPad app called Remarks. Here’s a hands on look at what the app offers users.

Remarks, like PDF Expert, offers PDF annotation and filling tools, but it’s a much more streamlined tool than that app, with a focus on making it easy to mark up and share documents, as well as create your own notes and notebooks independent of any pre-existing PDFs that can also be marked up and shared with other Remarks users for collaborative work.

Remarks is that rare beast among PDF tools, either on or off the iPad: it features a simple, straightforward interface and everything work very quickly, with speedy response times for turning pages, adding notes, and basically anything else you’d want to do. Tools, including pens, highlighters, preset shapes and text entry, are clearly labeled with simple icons, and there’s no visual clutter or wealth of unnecessary options to distract you from what you actually need to get done.

var galleryData = [{"title":"Add and arrange pages within a notebook or PDF document.","caption":"","thumbnail":"http:\/\/gigaom2.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/02\/3.jpg?w=48&h=48&crop=1"}, {"title":"Draw preset shapes and then tweak or move them after the fact.","caption":"","thumbnail":"http:\/\/gigaom2.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/02\/4.jpg?w=48&h=48&crop=1"}, {"title":"View all your notebooks arranged either by time of creation or by most recent access.","caption":"","thumbnail":"http:\/\/gigaom2.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/02\/5.jpg?w=48&h=48&crop=1"}, {"title":"You can put a text-entry insertion point anywhere, in PDFs or your own notes, and change the font style, size and color.","caption":"","thumbnail":"http:\/\/gigaom2.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/02\/6.jpg?w=48&h=48&crop=1"}, {"title":"PDF annotation is great in Remarks, but just one of its virtues.","caption":"","thumbnail":"http:\/\/gigaom2.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/02\/1.jpg?w=48&h=48&crop=1"}, {"title":"Remarks is among the top apps I've tried when it comes to taking natural hand-written notes. Ignore my terrible hand-writing, that's what it always looks like.","caption":"","thumbnail":"http:\/\/gigaom2.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/02\/2.jpg?w=48&h=48&crop=1"}, {"title":"Screen Shot 2012-02-02 at 10.38.10 AM","caption":"","thumbnail":"http:\/\/gigaom2.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/02\/screen-shot-2012-02-02-at-10-38-10-am.png?w=48&h=48&crop=1"}];  

LoadingNextPreviousPicture 1 of 7

Sharing may be one of Remarks’ best feature. Using email, you can easily share documents with other Remarks users, including annotated PDFs and notes created in the app itself. But in an upcoming update, Readdle is planning to introduce Dropbox, Box.net and other cloud storage sharing options, too, making it even more convenient for doing collaborative work.

Paired with a Bluetooth keyboard or stylus, Remarks is even more useful. It features effective accidental touch or wrist-detection, meaning you can write naturally with a stylus without worrying about drawing in the wrong place, and regular Mac key shortcuts like Command+C, Command+V and Command+A work with keyboard text input.

Remarks allows flexibility in creating notes and notebooks, allowing you to rearrange pages as you add them or after the fact, but it doesn’t overwhelm with options like other iPad notebook offerings. And since it’s also a full-fledged PDF annotation tool, and one that can be used collaboratively, it’s probably one of the most versatile iPad apps for students, and a fairly inexpensive one at $4.99.

Related research and analysis from GigaOM Pro:
Subscriber content. Sign up for a free trial.

• NewNet Q4: Platform mania and social commerce shakeout
• A field guide to cloud computing: current trends, future opportunities
• The rise of tablets in the enterprise