Goodnight Fortnight - Episode #98 of CloudFocus Weekly

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00:10 Jason Atwood: This is the 98th episode of CloudFocus Weekly for the second week of July 2012. This episode is titled Goodnight Fortnite. CloudFocus Weekly is sponsored by Arkus, you're CloudFocus Weekly experts. I'm your rusty host, back from a week off. We'll be across the wide spans of this small table at the other co-host for the 98th time in a row, Justin Elsink. Justin, how are you doing?

Justin Edelstein: I'm doing great. It's comfortable in the studio today. It is. We've had some air conditioning issues as of late, but it's a 70 degrees as opposed to yesterday, whereas a balmy 84.

Jason Atwood: Yes, we've been battling with the air conditioning.

Justin Edelstein: But I'm loving it. I'm sitting here, I'm comfortable. You're almost like you're cold. A little bit I got my arms crossed, but I can't at this point complain about being cold. That's kind of true. That's just... Because you can't...

Jason Atwood: But speaking of podcasts and picks of the week. Let's do it. I gotta open this up. We have an agenda this week. As we always do. Back from. From our two week hiatus. We have the blog post Dejure,

Justin Edelstein: Which was mine. How do you say De Week?

Jason Atwood: To do. To do each. It's like, what's the soup of the day? So I did my best at paying for a lot of apps and then only using one, where I use, for podcasting apps for the iOS. So we'll talk about that. It's on the blog, but we should start with it because this is a podcast and it's sort of meta. to talk about podcasts on a podcast app in Podcastland, and hopefully you're listening to one of these podcasts, this podcast on one of those podcast apps. We also have some Salesforce outages. We were in the midst of a couple, one last week, one this week, so a little bit about that, and then of course, because it's another week, or a day that ends in Y, it's not a good thing to say, Salesforce has bought somebody, so we'll talk about that.

Jason Atwood: And then we have some LinkedIn news.

Justin Edelstein: And then we'll end up with our CloudFocus picks of the week I had to really use them. You gotta really use them. You can't just open them up. You gotta really try them and use them.

Jason Atwood: They weren't even worth using. They just were so badly done and as I went from one to another and tried one and tried the other plus the thing that it does that podcasting apps do that we're all excited about is they all do. which is sort of the subscription side and sort of downloads things. That's something you can't test immediately. You kind of have to wait for it to happen. So I reviewed four. I reviewed Downcast.

03:26 Justin Edelstein: Downcast by a company that I'm not going to try. Eye Catcher. Yep. You did podcasts by Apple. Yep. Which is new, which I think spurred this. Yes. And then Instacast, our favorite. Yes.

Jason Atwood: We don't have to give away the whole thing. You're an Instacast user. Well, I've used two. Oh, you used two. Sure. Because you're the free one. I've used Instacast for a long time now.

Justin Edelstein: And I downloaded podcasts because I wanted to see how it works. Well, what was your thoughts on podcasts? What was the one you talked about podcast? Well, my initial gut reaction to podcasts was, this is it? Like, where is the app? Like, this is not an app. Like, it didn't do anything that the podcast little tab inside of... the music app did For me, right? It just didn't do any like the only extra little added feature It had was to flip into iTunes r directly to the podcast section Yeah, but that's it like it didn't do the downloading in the back. It does. Well, I couldn't get it to do it You can subscribe to things. It's there's a button on the lower left hand side.

Jason Atwood: It says catalog from there. I did that and it jumped me into like iTunes and then you can click on one and then you subscribe. It does all the same stuff.

Justin Edelstein: It brought in, which was nice, it did bring in the one you had, the podcast that I had inside of like the iPod app or the music app. So that was nice. but I didn't like see the easy way to just like yeah and I mean that's what I like and I'd flip to today.

Jason Atwood: It does. It does in the background. So I Sadly, podcast by Apple, while I like that it's free, so meaning if people want to get into podcast, great, but its experience is so bad that I- in and- the So, and again, all in the blog post. So some of their apps kind of went crazy with features, and they're like putting in all this sort of stuff. What they all have is bound and bound. They all have that.

Justin Edelstein: Not all in the background, but does podcasts have... No. They don't allow anybody else to do. No. It still does that. You still need to open it. And where the thing that Instacast

Jason Atwood: Does that so other ones do, and Instacast I think does it the best, it's just that sort of telling you what's going on. And maybe it's just going to turn all the notifications. That's sort of the thing. There's like hundreds of features in it that I have to go through. My general feel is... Great podcast is free for anybody who would never of spent a penny on podcasts on an actual podcast because podcasts are free Like then podcast by Apple. It's fine But it's it's just fine and I expected more from Apple to put out, you know Usually their apps aren't their camera app isn't just fine. It's pretty good. I guess face detection, it has grids, has, you know, their iTunes app is, is pretty good. Their mail app is amazing.

07:01 Justin Edelstein: So it's always... Some of their apps are a little lightweight, like weather,

Jason Atwood: And that's pretty light. Yeah, but it does, but then again it does, it does what it does, but it does it well, and it doesn't ask, it doesn't leave you wanting for more. With this podcast app,

Justin Edelstein: It sort of made me think like... Why isn't there an audiobooks app? the same exact thing. All this thing did was read from what already was sitting on my iphone pulled into its own little separate section

Jason Atwood: And then had a link to go over to the store to grab. Well you can do stuff you can't do that you can download in the background you can subscribe to things it will download it you can I I I And we do we do we do do do do because they have the best But see but here's the thing when you have universal yes, then you sink well Then you can sink and I played with all versions You would literally mark one is red here and then instantly mark right on the other side. A lot of podcasts not like ours, but have commercials skip ahead 30 seconds, you know I think Instacast is just the most best built Not most features, but sort of the most features you want but their pricing is just the toughest because there's two apps They're not universal and there's pro within them.

Jason Atwood: So I just feel like to say that to somebody versus pay $1.99, you know, if you own Instacast, you want the best of the best. Fine. If someone gave you a $25 gift certificate and got a spittin' on podcasting app, buy Instacast, both apps. And that's what I've done. I use both because they are sort of the best and they work the best and they sink. But if you're just getting into it, get the free app, i I catch your sadly it's not. It's just it just the whole thing is built for the iOS It just looks like it was built for Android It's hard to review the Saints because as you do them it kind of pops up very quickly You know with the next of the next so So go to blog.arkusinc.com and read up on that one.

10:31 Jason Atwood: There'll be another one coming up this week another blog another kind of mini review one Blog master is getting kind of I don't know mini reviewed. May's July is the month of of reviews don don't know the So, so keep up there and subscribe to the everything-on-blog.arkusinc.com. We got a couple good ones coming out Yeah, what's next week? What's this week?

Justin Edelstein: We're gonna have Chrome extensions that rock. Oh, there you go. So that's a good one. See? And then the week after... Oh, he's putting the T's out there now. The week after is kind of the week of the 100th podcast. Oh. So there's gonna be a little coinciding. Oh. They're gonna collide.

Jason Atwood: The blog and the podcast are gonna. Oh, you changed. Oh, you changed it then. Because it was supposed to be something like.

Justin Edelstein: Oh, well, I was talking this week and then this week is the, oh, this week then the next, right, two weeks from now. Two weeks. That's when the there's one in the middle that's very geeky Salesforce stuff. All right. That's good. Well, we like that. We like geeky Salesforce stuff. How to delete chatter feeds from the API stuff. Excellent. Yeah. So,

Jason Atwood: Speaking of geeky Salesforce things... Let's do it. So, here1959 is what I don't like to have happen in my life. Here's what, as a Salesforce consultant... You know what I didn't even know? Here's what I don't like to have happen. What don't you like? A client asked me, does this stuff happen all the time? Oh, what? We had an outage as we're talking?

Justin Edelstein: I went there just now because I was like, oh, everything's back. And then I went just now and there's a little issue going on with Salesforce. The search performance degradation came back. And then there's another issue on all instances that isn't really being reported,

Jason Atwood: But a DNS degradation. days. So let's talk about this because this is this is kind of big world big news in the world and a small outage once a once Whatever that goes over without a bang but having but when you have one last week, which I'm looking at the seven well, but the week the week of H

Justin Edelstein: No bad week for NA4 apparently it's down for a long time lots of issues I Mean we have customers on NA4. Yes. I know we and out for a while, but 7-1. It looks like there's a lot about it is across an entire thing that will play out.

Jason Atwood: Yeah, no good. And then yesterday with search. Yesterday 710 we had major outages across Any one and a five and a six CS. Well, those are productions, right? Well, then a bunch of productive bunch of sandboxes which what came down to I guess it was not energy it was Trying to get the word let me just read it Power failure? Well it was a power swap over. They're trying to swap from one power source to another during routine maintenance. It went down because the power was down they then couldn't use the tools to bring things back up. So basically they were down for multiple hours. It looks like 724 to 1035. Multiple hours, that's three hours. Plus it basically... There's something about the way they do search or something and I get I don't know enough about it I mean I know about search but it's something about it does not come up quick Like it's got a reindex or whatever it's supposed to do it takes many many hours because they'll say it's you know It took another well, it took another 17 hour no 10 hours to get back up and for search to come back up.

14:16 Jason Atwood: So and there's still an issue today with NA1 on search performance. Yeah I mean that looks like it's DNS related. No,

Justin Edelstein: No, two different issues going on here.

Jason Atwood: Yeah so what do you wanna, what's your take? It is what it is, I mean... It's fool me once shame on me fool me twice shame on you or whatever that you know These things happen.

Justin Edelstein: I don't like to see them happen to Salesforce where you know our our bread is buttered because it is kind of one of the you know One of those things you have the our clients that we care very much about and we don't want We don't want these things to go down for them, right? We want them to use their tools that we provide for them via Salesforce and we don't like having to answer the questions. Does this happen all all the time? No. Does it happen? Yes. How do you find out about it? You go to trust. You subscribe to the RSS feed. You do whatever you got to do. They're getting better with providing better updates at least. It used to be like down,

Jason Atwood: Back up. And then like four hours later is like it's back. So there's a good there's a good and bad news on this one The good bad news on this was one was I thought they handled the The interesting was was the social so I went back and I went to dream I went to the Salesforce at Salesforce Twitter handle And I basically went back and read about two or three days during that period what was happening, or I guess yesterday and the day before. And I was really impressed because it was very like, you know, we have an issue, go check here, we're looking. There were even some jokes in there, like one was saying, you know, I'm glad Salesforce is back up and now my phone system is down. And I think Salesforce tweeted like, I think I retweeted it.

Jason Atwood: Salesforce was like... Well, maybe that's just a sign to go outside, like, to get outside. Like, it was... I kind of wanted to see how Salesforce would handle in this new social enterprise world, how they would handle this type of thing, and I think

Justin Edelstein: Three or four years ago and like being at that very large company that had a lot of licenses and being on a call with some higher ups and saying basically saying to them listen we get it it goes down right you're giving us the reason we hear you but you can't have trust go down and you can't tell us the reason trust went down because it's on the same infrastructure is the thing that went down. You can't do that. Put it somewhere else. Put it elsewhere. It just means that someone didn't think very hard when they built the architecture.

Jason Atwood: So again, I don't... I guess one thing that's striking me now is back in the day when you had five NAs and a one through five or a one through six, losing one through four was a big deal. Now, with 1 through 17... You can lose one and no one even knows because the other six- It's funny how it's kind of, you don't take as big as big as the news. There's all over the news, all over the blogs. There was a very funny, I won't say the word, but the way that one of the people, one of the, the register in England, the way they said that. That Salesforce failed. It was an English expression, which I won't. It would make our podcast explicit.

18:02 Justin Edelstein: You can tell me afterwards. Yeah, it was very funny. Ripe it into the Google Docs so I can get a good laugh. Oh, okay. Wow. while I cover for you. One other thing just to go back, you know, I Liked when they put RSS on the trust site right because I used RSS at that time It was sort of right at the end right, but now I don't use that so much anymore So now I want trust to do like get it do a little more social like let me subscribe to like Salesforce Trust or something I guess you subscribe to you know at Salesforce but like I don't feel like it's proactive enough like RSS is kind of dead in this particular circumstance.

Jason Atwood: Well that was also responding like Salesforce responds it'd be nice if they just had one that was like Salesforce to Salesforce support that like it that would just millions of alerts on every little transaction I do. It would be nice to have a little bit more, or even email. Hey, can I sign up for email that every time something goes down you send me an email about it? Just so I know? I don't know. It would be nice. You should, I would think in your org somewhere, sign up for something that if you're on NAA... Anything goes down you get an email that tells you that any as the administrator that would be nice, right? It would right I get the the uses metrics every month. They're all 500 of them I wouldn't mind the hey your hey your work went down email so but I guess the best way to Get over a little outage is to buy somebody.

Jason Atwood: Why not? So Salesforce this week as of yesterday, I mean they've just been on a tear of buying. It's hard to keep up with, I can honestly say, if I spent all my time picking out who they we talked about, we joked about making this the Mergent Acquisition podcast weekly. Salesforce has now bought another little you know another tool, go instant provider of online business software that beefs up their customer service offering. I think they're they're basically like a little it's a mini screensharing through the browser.

Justin Edelstein: Yeah, little screen sharing through the browser. No little, well no download. No little thing to download. Isn't that dim dims thing the thing too? I don't know. I never got the chance to use dim dim. Oh I used dim dim.

21:02 Jason Atwood: I think before they got much tried to use like you tried to use it with me once and it just didn't work very I can't have this thing kind of work and kind of, you know, have clients go, what's this dim dim thing? And you're like, no,

Justin Edelstein: Here's WebEx. Go do it. This feels like a people thing. Don't you think? $70 million. People thing. Not necessarily like unless there's like one super awesome technology that they little thing that they do that's just really shattered messenger

Jason Atwood: Sharing and maybe whatever they bought and dim dim wasn't good good. So they had to. Buy another one. We'll see at Dreamforce. I guess. This is me. You'll see Buddy Media. So I've had people coming up to me now talking about buddy media A lot people know I'm in the salesforce business So that has become a spot people who don't really know Salesforce, but they're saying oh, yeah I have friends at work at buddy media. I Buddy media is what's gonna show up at Dreamforce. It's gonna be You mean the marketing cloud? Yeah, it's going to be the the social cloud, whatever it is. But I'll tell you, interesting enough, I was talking to a friend of mine about this, who's kind of in this business, he's saying that pages, sort of your branded pages, they're not doing as well now at the new timeline.

Jason Atwood: Yeah, I read that. Yeah, so because the timeline for a person works, timeline for a company,

Justin Edelstein: Facebook pages a little long. A company, it sort of works. I know this is going to sound weird. For a brand, it doesn't really work. Like for companies like, you know founded right right and like you know signed up our first client that the job it's like a timeline it's kind of cool but like for a brand like Coca-Cola right first bottling plant likeo like yeah sure on your Facebook timeline in 1912

Jason Atwood: Right that doesn't make sense so so interesting enough that sort of it's taking a hit and I wonder if Facebook is going to sort of come around and do something about that But obviously, we're obviously going to be doing tons of stuff at Dreamforce. But let's get into some LinkedIn stuff. Because there's two articles or two things happening in LinkedIn that are kind of interesting. Cloud news as you were. One is I've been using LinkedIn for Salesforce. I can write a whole blog post about that. Maybe the blog master would want to do it.

Justin Edelstein: It's sitting on my page layout blank and empty.

Jason Atwood: So, I think I said this, on the podcast before, if you think Salesforce licensing is difficult to understand, try LinkedIn's. But having said that... There's an interesting article out in Business Insider about how LinkedIn makes 20 times more money per user than Facebook. Now obviously, that's a lot. Obviously the people who are on LinkedIn are not just there for sharing pictures. They're professionals. It makes sense just if you just think about it. It's a lot. kids on Facebook. There's a lot of people who aren't spending money online on Facebook. The people on LinkedIn generally are professionals who are looking and searching for jobs. Plus that's a lot of valuable data that events resell. Recruiters too. Lots of recruiters. Oh yeah. So you can do this and do that and sell things and But for the amount of time that people spend on LinkedIn, you know, at the 18 minutes a month,

24:53 Justin Edelstein: Sense that's that's that's a lot like it's a big disparity it's probably why LinkedIn stock prices allow it's

Jason Atwood: An easier model it's telling you what you is listen here's what this. thing is there's no other thing to it it's not we're not trying to create something else you know creating the social graft is like oh what we're doing what So, just interesting. And then, in a kind of breaking up of the clouds, as it were, Twitter and LinkedIn are getting a divorce. They're divorced. They are due to Twitter's API.

Justin Edelstein: Twitter cut them off. They didn't sort of like reading up. I read up on it a little bit. They didn't. It's a weird thing for Twitter because their API is huge. It's it's a big thing for them to like with like promoted Promoted tweets and things of that nature and having those eyeballs sort of site to

Jason Atwood: Other places Meaning meaning I don't have to go to go to Twitter to see that tweet right and that's Kind of the thing they want you to have to come

Justin Edelstein: To Twitter to see that tweet You have to be in and things will flow into LinkedIn as you do it. Good the good thing about this is thankfully for people like you destroy LinkedIn everything people like it now I don't read that much well it's nice for those for those who kind of want to separate

Jason Atwood: Their Twitter's from their LinkedIn's I don't need to see every Twitter every tweet I just saw in Twitter land Like they're kind of separate. I did do the in tag once in a while. Generally when I remember about it or remember it, but interesting enough, you can still do all that stuff to Facebook. So they're not gonna stop Facebook from doing that. Oh, you wanna send your Facebook tweet So it's interesting how they're kind of saying, Oh no LinkedIn, no no no, but oh Facebook come here. Like that's fine, we can keep that open for you.

Justin Edelstein: As the bigger boy in the block. for a little while, we'll see.

Jason Atwood: Yeah, kind of it, it, it, I think it's a great, this is a something else but I think it's a great time for these other social networks to I think it's a great time for these other social networks to come in I think it's a.

28:34 Justin Edelstein: Feel Google Never and I'm logged into Google all day long It's sitting right there at the top of my screen all day the, little thing The number, it's always and number is doing something So there's a lot of news about them using others,

Jason Atwood: Others don't have like the hang out which. the hang out which allows you to do stuff In fact, there's a I mean, I guess it'll kill off one of my picks for some future But they just released the iPad version of Google Plus That's very nice and really well done and allows you to do hangouts in it. Again, they're doing the kind of like, listen, we're going to be everywhere and whether you want to love us now or love us later. I too, I have not found the critical mass over there or haven't found the reason. I still go every day just to kind of look at the stuff that's here that's missing. That's kind of interesting. Love the layout. I just don't love the volumes the volume isn't there plus with Google, which is a little bit different than Facebook I don't log into Facebook as a Corporate employee I log into Google as a corporate police So I end up having like multiple corporate like multiple Google Plus Plus.

Justin Edelstein: I feel like that's kind of dive to yeah And it's weird because like I'll get and I don't really look at my personal Gmail account and it's like, I kinda wanna like delete that one. Like I don't even want that one to even exist out there. It's like, it searches for me, they're gonna find me twice

Jason Atwood: And guess what, same picture and it's like. Well that, that I changed. I changed the picture so they wouldn't see it and I changed the name. I said, so I went for it.

Justin Edelstein: I go on there and like, I don't know, maybe I'm just, just not like following the right people or whatever it is. It's just the same people over and over saying the same, like, seemingly the same stuff over and over. And it's like, man, it's just a lot of, a lot of nothing. From the same six people. And I don't really like it. I just don't, I don't dig it. Alright. I mean, there's things about it I like. I think circles are cool. I think their TV commercials are cool. I think at the time, you know, maybe they'll... Circles and TVs are cool. Circles and TV commercials. In time, you plus sign in the little number at the top right with your name and you can hit it and it's like, oh, all right, now I'm in plus.

Justin Edelstein: It'd be nice if everything just like came together. In fact, you know that that's that sort of thing.

Jason Atwood: Google places now is all in plus. So you go find a Google place. which used to be like their mapping thing, it's now built into Plus That's the thing with Google is that they don't have to get you to adopt it They can just switch a little switch and all of a sudden you're in it, you don't know it Now I'm in Google Plus I think the problem for them is always been This is like their fourth foray, they just killed off Buzz They killed off another one, he had I2 They had plus, not plus, they had the other one that the plus one before was Google plus, it was something else. They've done so many iterations glared to this, It feels like they couldn't really start from scratch. Again, I still that they have a lot to go on.

31:59 Jason Atwood: Collapse enough to allow them to go in or maybe we'll just get this might be the thing There might and K- All right, you get it from your life, but it's the most as big as it was when you picked it up as a toy All right, so speaking of the biggest things that ever happened It's gonna be an all-cloud focused app picks of the week podcast. So it's and then we're gonna do five brand, new picks of our.

Justin Edelstein: That's what I'm still working on. All right.

Jason Atwood: I have done. The others. I have plenty of new ones. Yes, yes. You'll also be accompanied with another special thing in it. You'll be able to see and do it and some other things. We have a couple little surprises in the hunt. Right. OK. So speaking of CloudFocus, I picked the week. Let's get to ours. Why don't I go first? No. Why don't you go first? You don't go first.

Justin Edelstein: Stop it. Alright, so silly rabbit again last week. I said I want to work here last week. Oh two weeks ago Yeah, a fortnight ago. I wanted to Get back to picking more app exchange apps because I feel like I slipped into the mode of just picking a lot of But I went around and I looked what it does is it alleviates you from having to follow all of these records when you want to see the, you know, the automated chatter updates like Opportunity stage went from whatever to closed one Okay So, you know, you have to follow all the records to see the record updates like the chatter updates themselves and even you know stuff that someone posts But what this does iso allows you to create filters and rules that take the chatter posts and put them into a group.

36:01 Justin Edelstein: So all you have to be is part of the group. And. Whenever a, a record meets the criteria, it will take a template that you create and post something into the group. So let's use the example of a closed one opportunity. So you can be in a group called the sales team, and you can have a rule created on opportunities whenever an opportunity that's greater than a certain amount... and and post this to this chatter group and this can be the LA the, the custom field x and a little note and congrats to the owner for closing this huge deal bah bah bah honestly if want to Okay, now you're just a part of a group and you're seeing these updates as opposed to having to follow every record It's what it gets around that 500 record limit.

Justin Edelstein: It's like kind of workflow rules Posting kind of yeah with a nice user interface on top of that. I looked at the interface. It looks pretty neat You're gonna ask me so I'm gonna tell you it's $18 a month for the org.

Jason Atwood: So it's not user base. It's a good little pricing model. I wonder,

Justin Edelstein: I like the pricing model because it's not user by user, it's org-wide. It's $18 per company per month. Per company, which I presume is per org.

Jason Atwood: Yeah, per company probably means you can install into multiple orgs.

Justin Edelstein: One price per company regardless of number of users. I wonder. Anyway, if that is, nice job, Kevin. If it's not, good job other Kevin. I like the app and if ever a client were to ask me about that particular, you know, we want chatter updates to post to groups and we run into this limit, I'm going to suggest this app called Group Alerts for chatter.

Jason Atwood: Nice! 18 no's. Pretty cool right? That's cool, it's very cool. I'm I like it. I mean again I I could see obviously the bigger the org the more you want to the more you want to try that right you want to get away from having everybody follow everything also with the 500 limit It gets pretty loose.

Justin Edelstein: It gets hard, right? It gets hard. I mean, we hit it in our org, and we're not, you know not that much data in our org to really be following. And this lets you just be a part of a group. And, you know, being a part of a group is nothing.

39:02 Jason Atwood: It's true. And you can be part of as many groups as you want, I think. Sure, I think. I believe that's true. All right. I know there's probably some limit there. So my pick of the week? I like your pick. Yes. this one, I, again, I have so many, I'm basically saving them. So I have a question for you. Go on. On our 99th episode, since on our 100th episode we're doing... five picks each. I prefer to not make a pick. On the 99th. Yeah. So this is my last... So I can save that one. That one pick. Okay so just so skip ahead don't even listen to the 99th episode because there's nothing going on. Well basically what we're gonna do is break up the 99th and 100th episode into two episodes because the 99th is...

Jason Atwood: We're gonna record them... We're gonna record him probably back to back. Back to back and then one's gonna be news related. Right. And one's gonna be all the pecs. Just all pecs. All the pecs. But our funny banter will be in both of them.

Justin Edelstein: Well my funny banter will be in both of them. My funny banter.

Jason Atwood: Your banter. So this would have been on my top, this would have been the five pecs. I have so many. This would have made it? This would have made it, not top five pecs. I'm saying this would have made my new pecs. This would have made your new five. Yeah, this is a good one. It is glared on a good one out there I could I thought I could a crappy one.

Justin Edelstein: This is for Mac users. Yeah, this is this is productivity people everywhere So right up my alley go on. I love it.

Jason Atwood: By the way in my picks I want to let you know I'm going to be mixing up both sales force hardware I'm gonna try to do one of everything.

Justin Edelstein: I'm gonna get a hardware in there. Yeah. I'm gonna get a hardware one in there.

Jason Atwood: I'm just saying, because I like, I'm gonna mix it up. I might pick our microphone. Can't. Might pick our new microphone. to this one. This is a really easy and quick one. It's called Cheat Cheat. It is for the Mac. It is available on the App Store. And it does something that is just so simple. Is it free or do you buy it? It's 99 cents. It's free. 3 free. Well this is then, it's a no-brainer. If you own a Mac, you download this as soon as you're done listening. Yeah, so this will be all you productivity people who like to use your keys. This one allows you, it just. Just basically you set a key on your keyboard as a sort of way to bring it up. You hold down that key for a period of time.

Jason Atwood: I've set mine to very long and I set it to my command key. and whatever app you're in, so if you're on the finder, if you're in GarageBand, or if you're on Chrome or in whatever, you hold down the key and then up comes after a delay, a basically overlay with every single key command that's available to you. So in this way I'm looking at Chrome and it's showing me all the Chrome ones. It's showing me all the all the file, edit, view, history, bookmarks, it shows me every command that I can do. from the keyboard. And this is great because if you're constantly looking for other ways to speed up your productivity, you can download this and then whatever app you're in, it's a great way to quickly remind yourself without having to go through all the menus, because right now what you would have to do is go through all the menus and see where they exist.

Jason Atwood: You can go, oh, and then you even learn things you didn't even know you could do by a keyboard and hopefully start to memorize those. So. It is called Cheat Sheet. It is very very simple. It is free. It's in the Mac store, so it's a download away. And it is... there's nothing... there's nothing not to like about it. I've been using it for a week or so. It hasn't crashed my system. So I mean it's because it's kind of always... And there's little preferences for it. You can't do too much, but basically the delay in the key.

42:30 Justin Edelstein: I showed it to you and other people in the office, and you both went and downloaded it immediately. It's free. Why not? And I love key commands, but sometimes I don't know them, so this is a good way to learn them.

Jason Atwood: Because they're right in your face. The one thing I wish it would do, which I don't know is even possible, would be to expose website key commands. ends. So if you're on a website, be able to see... Oh, like Gmail? Yeah. To be able to... Gmail has actually a key command and so in Docs, you can show the key commands that are in Docs. Oh yeah, I'm sitting in Docs right now and

Justin Edelstein: If I hit the little thing, it's showing me Chrome. Right, showing you Chrome. Because it's showing me Chrome. Right. I don't know how it would know what I want. That would be nice.

Jason Atwood: There's a there isn't print them from here too by the way which kind of like defeats the purpose I guess you don relent wall or something so cheat sheet for them for the Mac for free my last pick my last pre 100 regular pick for this year or I guess pre 100 will be in the hundred ones and will be Whatever. Alright, that kind of wraps it up. Remember to go to blog.arcasync.com and follow the blog. We post at least a blog a week and a podcast a week. You can comment there. You can read up all the last books. The blog and the podcast basically as of I think next week are both two years old. We started blogging and podcasting in the middle of July,

Justin Edelstein: 2000 and it was like July 17th. That makes sense if we're coming up on 100 episodes. Makes sense.

Jason Atwood: So that's kind of interesting. So lots of content. They're all up there. You can download every single one. You might want to go back and download the first podcast or the first blog post. Oh man, that first podcast. It's just see I should get that one. You should see what it sounds like. I should do that Man, we don't care if you listen just download it you follow us on twitter, twitter.com slash arca sync or jason. Am atwood or just edlstein We're on facebook at facebook.com slash arca sync. We are using the new timeline We do post all of our stuff there. So if that's where you want to live your life Fine, follow us there. Like us on Facebook. We're also on Google+. So for you people on Google+, follow us there as well.

Jason Atwood: But best way to do, subscribe to the podcast, is do one of the millions of ones I just told you about, Downcast, iCatch, or Podcast, or Instacast, or in iTunes. So if you wanna go old school, although I guess that'll kind of, I wonder if that'll kind of go away. I think they'll kill it off eventually. That's what I was saying.

Justin Edelstein: I feel like... There's gonna be like why not do not do that one. Like I'm listening to two audiobooks right now and I have to like dig through that music app. Like what that podcasting did was right just surface it. What's the big deal?

Jason Atwood: Why not? Well I think it came from it being an iPod.

Justin Edelstein: But now you've got this thing to like break everything out. They broke video out, right?

Jason Atwood: So why not break everything out? Yep. I think they eventually will break everything out podcasts Hopefully they break them out better set them free set those podcast week It's the year the podcast clearly the world is turning towards podcast 2007 was the year of the pond. I mean the year we started podcasting.

45:37 Justin Edelstein: Yeah, not this particular one No another podcast it'd be funny on our hunt me. I don't want to tell anybody but it'd be funny if people listen to both.

Jason Atwood: If they know the other podcast? If they know the other one. Yeah. If they even know it. If you had to be a fan of both, you would have to be a very specific type of person to like to listen to both. Because they're... Now one's old. It's 2007. It's, it's raw. It's raw. 155 episodes of that one. Yeah. That one's not done. Yeah, that's why. But anyway. But anyway. So we've been podcasting for a long, long time. But we enjoy it. We really appreciate it. Again, if you're on iTunes. Big shout out to Zach who left a review on iTunes. Please do that. That's great. We love that. I don't know how in the new world the podcast, it's still sort of the mecca of podcasts as iTunes. It's still the catalog I think for most of these places.

Jason Atwood: I I think in our other podcast,

Justin Edelstein: In the template where you post it. It still says like, you know, find us in the Zune Marketplace. Oh yeah. There is no Zune Marketplace. It's really funny with the link. Yeah, with the link. Find it maybe.

Jason Atwood: All right. Well, until next week in the 99th episode, enjoy those cloudy days.