Zoom interfaces have interested me since reding Raskin’s The Humane Interface. Up until now I haven’t seen a modern example of one.

This changed today when I read a post over at SVN about the OLPC’s $100 laptop.

The interface team OLPC put together came up with something that throws the desktop metaphor right out the window.

Sadly, the “demo” is just a bunch of screenshots. Guess I’ll have to wait to try it out.

Looks promising though, and great to see UI people thinking about new ways to convey information on the screen.

I’ll be giving a presentation about Cashboard at the upcoming Silicon Valley Ruby on Rails meetup. If you want some of the behind-the-scenes insight on the product it’ll be worth attending.

For times and directions click here.

Hope to meet some of you there!

Brian over at SolutionWatch wrote a glowing review of Cashboard today.

Thanks Brian!

Entering your time into Cashboard just got a lot easier.

Cashboard Timer lets you log time without keeping a web browser open.

This was my first widget, and a lot of fun. It took longer than I expected (around three days) but I’m really happy with the results.

There were some quirks debugging with dashboard widgets that I didn’t expect, like errors being logged to the console.

At least the rails part was easy using ActionWebService...

Could a Cashboard open API be coming soon? Hrm….........

v1.5 Released…(Fixed up and tested using our hosted product Cashboard.)

• Modal now displays properly again in Safari
• Modal doesn’t disable scrollbars
• Modal scrolls with page

See the demo or Get it here…

For those of you interested in the reasons behind why we created Cashboard, be sure to check out the Cashboard Manifesto.

It just went live on the Cashboard Info site.

It might just shed some light on how Cashboard can help your small business as well.

You heard right…..our first hosted application just launched!

If you’re managing estimates, invoices, payments, and projects any other way – you need this software.

Check out the announcement or – get Cashboard now!

It’s quite possible…stay tuned.

Update

We’re just dealing with nailing some business related things down, but the Cashboard Alpha code is ready to roll.

Look next week hopefully for the promo site to be updated and launched.

Did we mention it’s going to be extremely easy to track time for all of your projects using Cashboard?

Transforming those hours into invoices takes only one click…couldn’t be more simple.

I can’t wait to get this release out so I can start working on the Dashboard Widget for tracking time…

Signed up for the announcement list yet?