http://hornenee.com Online solutions for real estate, city planning, and transportation Mon, 22 Sep 2008 21:56:18 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Many of our clients use Wordpress as a platform to organize, display, and update their websites. Integrating photos into a sites content is a frequent request, and Flickr has proven itself to be the easy, no-mess way of doing that. It also allows organizations to harness the power of ... http://hornenee.com/2008/03/07/wordpress-flickr-union-made-easy/ Horne Nee Inc was invited to beta test Xpenser and Freshbooks integration. This was enough to get us mentioned in a press release. I'll be watching for more interesting freshbooks mashups and other services that will streamline our operations. http://hornenee.com/2007/12/14/hornenee-inc-in-press-release/ Yesterday while reading techcrunch, I read about crossloop, an application that lets you access PCs remotely. I've used a variety of products in the genre before and routinely use VNC. However, for helping a customer remotely without requiring any prior setup or firewall configuration, Crossloop is great. ... http://hornenee.com/2007/12/05/saving-the-day-with-crossloop/ On the advice of Associate Preston Theler, we've chosen to use the name HN Ventures for our clients with less mature senses of humor.  According to PT, HNV "sounds like the type of company that does something crazy".  Sounds about right to us. http://hornenee.com/2007/11/30/hn-ventures/ Facebook launched a new advertising platform that could change the face of online advertising. They now provide a slick interface for businesses, products and public figures to promote themselves without wedging themselves into a profile meant for an individual. I tried my hand at creating a "product" page ... http://hornenee.com/2007/11/07/hornenee-on-facebook/ If you're sweet like we are and hacked your iPhone before the new firmware came out, here's how to update. 1. First thing you need to do is "re-virginize" your phone. Basically, this means tricking itunes into thinking that you never broke it in the first place. Assuming you ... http://hornenee.com/2007/11/02/if-youre-trying-to-hack-your-iphone-firmware-111-save-yourself-a-heart-attack/ While we haven't found a single web application that completely replaces quickbooks, we use freshbooks.com for billing and xpenser.com to track our expenses.  Xpenser provides an extremely simple and streamlined interface that works via email, SMS, IM or voice (using jott.com).  We're still learning about all its awesome features, and ... http://hornenee.com/2007/10/15/tracking-expenses-online/ One of the many web applications we use at Horne Nee Inc is freshbooks. Its a great web application for tracking time, creating invoices and managing those invoices. They can even print and mail invoices on our behalf. Using freshbooks, we've got a lot more time to ... http://hornenee.com/2007/10/09/our-bookkeeping-department-ceo-takes-us-out-to-dinner/ We founded Horne Nee Inc (a California Corporation) this summer and slowly transitioned our various consulting projects to the new company. Horne Nee Inc now handles the web development, transportation planning and photography projects for both Brendan and Jed. We've been so busy working on websites for clients that its ... http://hornenee.com/2007/10/07/horne-nee-inc-website-launch/