When Helicoid isn’t plotting world domination we can sometimes be found in front of our PS3s. Earlier today, while I was daydreaming about big HDTVs and how pleasant the Folding@Home application looks on the PS3, I thought to myself: why doesn’t Helicoid have a Folding team?

So here it is: Folding@Home team 85818, newly set up today. If you like our free products such as Helipad and Multitap, and you like to use the spare CPU cycles on your PC or PS3 while it’s running a screensaver, then why not set your team number to 85818? Consider it a charityware donation.

I’ll be keeping track of the monthly progress on this horrible ad-ridden site here, and I’ll mention the top folder in the blog once in a while.

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In our Tiktrac live announcement we promised editable costs. Over the last week we’ve been working on this, but added and improved so much more along the way.

Editable costs and tax

• It’s now possible to set the cost calculation per sheet
• The cost calculations available are: manual (editable costs), hourly rate and hourly rate + tax
• Tax can be entered as a percentage and defaults to 17.5%

When using manually entered costs, the cost field appears next to the duration field:

Notice that this makes it possible to add a sheet dedicated to expenses. Here’s how we’ve set up expenses ourselves:

Reports improvements

• Reports now all use the same date direction
• Line charts have been added for “busy” reports, making their appearance cleaner
• The “People” graphs are now generated much faster
• The “Overview” reports have been cleaned up

Help system upgrade

We now have a more flexible and friendly help syst…

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