Tiktrac: Import data from Excel, Open Office, Numbers

Posted on Thu 3 Jan, 2008

Tiktrac now supports data imports from CSV files. This allows you to import time sheet data from spreadsheets straight into Tiktrac.

Each sheet now has an Import tab, which takes you through the steps to import your data.

Tiktrac: 1000 days worth of time tracked

Posted on Fri 4 Jan, 2008

We recently updated the homepage for Tiktrac, our time sheets web application. While going over the copy we had an interesting idea: why not include a dynamic counter for the total time tracked?

So now you can see the total amount of time recorded by the Tiktrac community. It currently displays 22210 hours, which is almost 1000 days.

That’s a lot of work… maybe soon we’ll have to switch the counter to days instead of hours!

Coming soon: Tiktrac dashboard widget

Posted on Mon 7 Jan, 2008

Get your Tiktrac dashboard widgets here!

Posted on Thu 10 Jan, 2008

Tiktrac, our time tracking app, has just been furnished with a Mac OS Dashboard widget.

To download the widget and get instructions on how to use it, visit the widget’s page.

We’d love to hear from you (and give you awesome free stuff) if you’ve used Tiktrac’s API to make any widgets, gadgets or interesting things. Also get in touch if you’d like help building something like this.

Helicoid Insider

Posted on Fri 18 Jan, 2008

Since this blog covers our product announcements, we’ve decided to launch a new blog entitled Helicoid Insider, covering:

  • Technical tips on building web applications
  • Interface design, and design culture
  • Web industry observations, opinions, discussion

Recent posts include:

Tiktrac tip: Go mobile

Posted on Sat 26 Jan, 2008

Note: This tip actually applies to all of our web applications, seeing as we carefully craft mobile interfaces for each of them.

Did you know your Tiktrac account has a mobile phone version? Just add /mob to your account’s URL. Even though it provides a limited view on your account, it allows you to post tasks wherever you are with a mobile phone.

This is great for anyone who leaves the office regularly, like tradesmen. We have a plumber friend who uses his phone to log time when he’s out on a job , which means his time sheets are more accurate: no more end of week panics trying to remember what he worked on.

Similarly, Helipad allows you to read your documents when you’re away from the computer. Just login with your phone at http://pad.helicoid.net/mob. This saved me a lot of time when I was setting up Helicoid, because I …