Software Product Development

Software Product Development

Tarun Upadhyay   //  Tarun is still just flatly amazed by the power of the Internet, its ability to level the field and help the little guy compete with the biggest organizations.

Those little guy success stories are what drags him to work every morning and he lives a small part of that little guy's dream working for hCentive.

Prior to co-founding hCentive, Tarun served as a co-founder and CTO for GlobalLogic - an outsourcing service provider for large, complex products and software - which grew from 0 to 400 engineers while he was the CTO.

Prior to Globallogic, he was co-founder and CTO of Pinelabs - an India-based provider of Loyalty and Payment solutions using Smart Cards. While Tarun was CTO, Pinelabs grew from a drawing board idea to a suite of successful products running at many fortune 500 companies handling millions of credit card transactions per day.

Tarun holds an M.S in Mathematics and Computer Applications from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India.

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Mar 20 / 8:09pm

Getting office work done on Mac

by tarun upadhyay
Here is the list of software I use to make my work  life easier when I moved from Windows+Blackberry to Mac+iPhone.
  • Microsoft Office for Mac
    • There is really no alternative to Microsoft Entourage (part of Microsoft Office for Mac) if one uses MS Exchange-shared calendars.
    • If the office workflow requires documents formatted in Microsoft Excel, Powerpoint or Word, then its best to buy this to ensure full formatting compatibility
  • Evernote for Mac and Evernote for iPhone
    • A very good note taking application for your Mac and iPhone.
    • Data sync automatically between the two over  the air.
    • Can also sync variety of files formats, images taken from camera (capture whiteboards and wine labels ) and web links.
  • OmniFocus for Mac and OmniFocus for iPhone
    • A solid task-management tool based on GTD methodology
    • Has a sharp learning curve for a GTD newbie but is very powerful when mastered
    • iPhone and Mac versions sync automatically over the air.
  • Parallels Desktop
    • Virtualization Software to run Windows on Mac
    • Not required for most cases unless there is that one windows app that you need to run.
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Filed under  //  entourae   entourage   evernote   iPhone   Mac   office   Omnifocus   parallels   Productivity & Tools  

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Aug 2 / 5:46pm

add delegated tasks from entourage to "Waiting" context in OmniFocus

by tarun upadhyay
One problem that I face is that how do I keep track of what tasks I have delegated to others from my Entourage. So, I wrote an applescript that will take your current message and copy it to OmniFocus inbox and also set the context to Waiting. At your leisure (or depending on your settings), you set the project of this task later (if you want to).
Here is what you need to do:
  1. download this applescript and save it at ~/Documents/Microsoft User Data/Entourage Script Menu Items
  2. create a contact in entourage with name as "waiting" and address as your own email address
  3. set up a rule in entourage for the account you created the "waiting" account like this.
  4. The applescript should point to the script mentioned above.
  5. Now, whenever you want to track a task that you have delegated to somebody else - you can also BCC the same email it to "waiting" contact and it will automatically appear in your omnifocus inbox when it is recieved.
Filed under  //  entourage   Mac   Omnifocus   Productivity   Productivity & Tools  

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Jul 31 / 9:58pm

Send Entourage Message to OmniFocus

by tarun upadhyay

I modified Sandro's wonderful script to send Entourage message to OmniFocus.

My modified script takes the selected messages and add them to the quick entry window and then activates the quick entry window so people can assign projects to them.

It then also moves the selected messages to a folder called "Active". You need to have this folder created in the same mail account.

Save this file to your ~/Documents/Microsoft User Data/Entourage Script Menu Items

Filed under  //  entourage   Mac   Omnifocus   Productivity   Productivity & Tools  

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Jul 31 / 9:24pm

Send Entourage Message to OmniFocus QuickEntry

by tarun upadhyay
I modified Sandro's wonderful script to send Entourage message to OmniFocus. My modified script takes the selected messages and add them to the quick entry window and then activates the quick entry window so people can assign projects to them. It then also moves the selected messages to a folder called "Active". You need to have this folder created in the same mail account. Save this file to your ~/Documents/Microsoft User Data/Entourage Script Menu Items
Filed under  //  entourage   Mac   Omnifocus   Productivity   Productivity & Tools  

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