Time Tracking & Productivity Blog
Thomas FuchsYou run a business, and your business runs on time. Whether your need to bill your customers, or knowing which projects use up precious...
Time Tracking & Productivity Blog
Thomas’ work on Prototype.js, Zepto.js and Micro.js has made him a certified JavaScript Guru. Before founding Freckle, Thomas was consulting with some of the world’s best known companies on their craziest interactive JavaScript needs. A Ruby on Rails core alumni, he is passionate about creating the best user interface experience possible and penned the Scriptaculous JavaScript UI library to share the love, counting sites like Apple.com and Nasa.gov among its users. Thomas’ master plan: work toward a more delicious web using open source goodness.
Heartbleed and Freckle
tl;dr Freckle was patched on Monday within hours of public knowledge of this security problem. We recommend that you change your password and API token. This Monday (April 7, 2014) afternoon (ET) the Heartbleed bug (CVE-2014-0160) was made public. It is a very serious security problem with the way web servers (like Freckle) handle encrypted [...]
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Freckle ❤️ open source!
At Freckle we’re using a lot of open source projects to provide the best possible service and the most cheerful time tracking application to you. We also extract and share our own open source projects—here’s some of them as a gift back to the community and to you! Zepto.js Zepto.js is our modular drop-in replacement for jQuery, [...]
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Freckle is 5!
Freckle launched on December 1, 2008! Thank you, our awesome customers, for using Freckle! For our the 6th year, we’ve some really cool things planned which we will reveal over the next few months! Stay tuned! Your Freckle Team!
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5 ways to get your team to happily track time
If you run a business and bill by the hour you know how important it is to keep track of time. You want to bill on time, and all the hours that have actually been worked. Here’s 5 things you can do to improve time tracking discipline! **1. Have your time tracking come to your team** It’s easy to forget to track time in the hustle [...]
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Zombie Clients: are they eating your brains?!
They’re insidious. They’re hungry. They’re hard to kill. And this Halloween, we’re going to help you with your double taps. Bad clients are a plague. You might even feel like they’re cracking your skull like a breakfast egg and devouring your precious, precious brains. And no matter how many wrap-ups you do, their [...]
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Mobile Time Tracking
Maybe you left your laptop at home but you’re getting a phone call from a client? Or you’re in a meeting and you can’t use your laptop. Or you have a great idea while you’re at dinner and want to track the time it takes to draw that great new design on the back of a napkin… …what if you could use the Freckle Timer [...]
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Don’t miss the beat with Freckle’s weekly activity reports
You’re busy creating—and time tracking is probably low on your list of priorities. At Freckle, we try to get out of your way by providing a fast-loading and friendly app to get your time entries logged quickly. But wouldn’t it be great if Freckle comes to you instead of you having to go to Freckle? Introducing our weekly activity [...]
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No need for invoicing? Turn it off!
We have good news for those of you who don’t have a need create invoices (or if you roll your own invoicing), or if you need to use an external app for it (maybe because your accountants make you do it!)—Freckle now supports turning invoicing off altogether. To turn it off, you need to be logged in as the account owner Go to admin [...]
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Custom fonts, Markdown and PDF invoices!
With our HTML invoice customization it’s easy to make your Freckle invoices extra stylish. Here’s how you do this with a font from Google Web Fonts. First, choose the font you like of course. Here we’re picking Open Sans, and select the normal, bold and italic styles so we can have some extra fun. Next, copy the link element [...]
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New and awesome developer docs!
Nerd alert! This article is about our new developer documentation. Want to integrate Freckle with an app of yours? You’re probably aware of our API, and now we’ve a shiny new developer website available as a guide to you! Next to listing all the API functions and showing examples with JSON and XML (your choice!), we’ve also [...]
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