Scott Gruby’s Blog

For the most part, Mac OS X has been solid and reliable. However, there are times when I have to restart. Recently my machine wouldn’t always wake from sleep requiring me to power cycle it; I don’t shutdown my machine all that often, but opt to sleep it so it wakes faster. I saw this [...]

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I’m now through a few billing cycles with Sprint after the guy at the Sprint store mucked with my account. As I posted before, I got 4 additional lines (and phones) and my bill was supposed to drop by about $20 per month. Low and behold, it actually has (it takes a few billing cycles [...]

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When I started ReceiptWallet back in October, I thought that it was a good idea to become an Amazon Affiliate and point people to scanners and collect a little money off the referrals. It turns out I was right. While I can’t retire off the 4-6% that Amazon pays me for each sale, it’s still [...]

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Recently I’ve had a number of customers contact me for support and when my automated system sent them confirmation, I received back a message that said I had to click a link (a challenge/response system). I have a strong objection to these systems (such as the one from SpamArrest) as they put the burden on [...]

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For years I’ve known that I sometimes don’t work well with others; this wouldn’t be much of a probably if it was every now and again, but for me it is something I have to work on all the time. I was thinking about this the other day and figured out when this started happening. [...]

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For the last few days, I’ve been playing with Camino as my default web browser. For my new help system, it has some components that rely on Firefox (for editing knowledgebase articles), so I wanted to give Firefox a try. Unfortunately Firefox doesn’t look like a Mac application. Camino is supposed to be a Mac-ified [...]

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This week, I installed (actually I had someone else install it as he had experience doing it and it only took him 30 minutes) a new technical support system for ReceiptWallet and DocumentWallet. I decided that I needed a more dynamic way to update my FAQ and better handle technical support inquiries as many of [...]

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The other day there was an article in our local paper about how Google has setup a transportation system to shuttle some of its employees to and from work. In addition, they provide free chef cooked meals, doctor checkups, etc.. While this sounds like a great idea, the article clearly quoted a Google employee as [...]

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I’ve signed up my first reseller for ReceiptWallet and DocumentWallet. DataViz is now selling the products on their website. Already (in its first day) this has driven at least a few people to my products that would never have otherwise seen them. I hope that this works out well and doesn’t cannibalize my direct sales.

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