Quickly access Tiktrac on a mac

Posted on Sat 8 Jul, 2006

If it’s your job to Tiktrac the time for a project, a good way to quickly access Tiktrac is to drag the URL to your dock. Then whenever your boss asks you how long your team has spent on a project, you can quickly pull up the front page and give him the answer.

First, drag the favicon in your browser’s URL bar:

Then drop it in the dock, near the trash:

Since you can do practically everything from Tiktrac’s front page, this can be a great time saver.

Tiktrac updates and keyboard shortcuts

Posted on Sat 22 Jul, 2006

I just updated Tiktrac, after a week of gruelling testing. Gruelling because it’s hot in London, not hot beyond enjoyable—it’s just hard to work when everyone else is having barbecues!

So let me explain the updates so I can finally enjoy the sun and relax.

  1. More keyboard shortcuts have been added. Look for underlined letters (just like Windows) to see what shortcuts we’ve added
  2. When you’re adding a task on the dashboard page, you can press alt-s to quickly save the task.
  3. Minor bugs have been fixed with task additions on the dashboard. Safari users probably noticed adding more than one task caused problems.

More on those keyboard shortcuts: Mac users can use ctrl to access them, whereas Windows users use alt. The interface will try and give you some help by underlining things that can be accessed this way. Mac form buttons look like this:

And in Windows:

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