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Dopplr – Putting Your Travel Plans on the Map

Prior to getting into consulting and technology development, I spent about a decade in the travel industry. I quickly moved into a technology role within travel so I became quickly interested in any new travel related technologies. To this day I still enjoy keeping tabs on some of the travel tools that are now available online.

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The Dopplr website is a very interesting travel tool that doesn’t serve as a reservations assisting application, but is used more for sharing and interacting with your reservation after they’re booked. In addition, it also lets you share your travel plans easily with your friends, family and other people you trust and want to see your travel itinerary.

If part of your professional career puts you in the category of a "road warrior" for always hopping all over the globe, the Dopplr site could show you when you’ll be in the same city as other friends and coworkers if they’re also using the site.

You can get the scoop on the destination cities your travels take you to, as well as sharing your own tips for travelling along the way.

The end of every year Dopplr will send you a report of your travels for that year. If you have lots of travel scheduled for an entire year they can also show you a nice timeline of what your travel itinerary is going to look like over an extended time.

Uncover information about your travel with Dopplr.

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Display Access Design View Forms on Top

I continue to do more and more development within Microsoft Access 2007. I’m still learning the ropes on how to do stuff but there’s something we’ve come across that is an extreme annoyance and it seems like a pretty obvious fix and solution.

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We are working on a variety of applications that consist of a number of data entry forms and displays. While troubleshooting the applications and adding features, sometimes you need to pop open the form in Access Design View and make some changes.

Because the form you’re working on is dependent on some of the other forms that are open for passing and sharing values and other parameters, they may all need to be open as well.

The challenge is that when you switch the form to Access Design View, the vast majority of the time it ends up being buried behind all the other forms, task panes and other items that may be open in your application workspace.

We then spend wasted time moving windows around, sliding them off to other screens, or sliding them off to the edges of the screens so we can get to and begin working on the form we need in Access Design View.

Why in the world wouldn’t a form that’s in Access Design View be modal and pop to the front of the display? It’s obviously the one that’s needing to be worked on if I switched it to Access Design View in the first place right?

If you’ve got a solution for this or agree with me, let us hear it in the comments.

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Color Scheme Designer 3

Are you color blind? Maybe you just design like it. Color can really pull emotions out of us that we maybe didn’t expect. When you’re designing a new graphic, website, or some other piece of art, getting the colors right can be pretty important.

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The Color Scheme Designer website is now in it’s third major iteration and version for users and it will give you quite a bit of information to make sure your next color palette for that project will be exactly what you needed.

The site let’s you select your color preferences on a color wheel and then depending on the type of color scheme you’re needing to put together, it gives you recommendations on all the other colors.

You can put together color schemes for: mono, complement, triad, tetrad, analogic, accented analogic.

The Color Scheme Designer website provides the complementary colors you need along with the RGB and hex values for easily translating your design choices into your website and CSS files.

Put a little color, organized color in your next design and uncover the right ones to use with the Color Scheme Designer website.