If you are in a developing country heap is permanently free for your use. Just send us an email at support@heaphq.com and we will get you all set!

We would like to announce that we have both widgets for OS X and gadgets for Vista included with the Heap CRM. Which to our knowledge and check of both Microsoft’s site and Apple’s, we appear to be the first CRM to have either. So, if your interested, go ahead and sign-up and give heap a try, its free until March 1st.

We are pleased to announce that Heap CRM is complete and will be available for free until March 1st of 2007. We encourage anyone who is interested to sign-up for an account and give it a try. Heap features:

• Dashboard
• Calendar with shared Calendars
• Messages
• Leads, Opportunities, Customers and Archives
• Easy Reporting
• Searching
• User Management

We are so happy to have had so many great beta testers and we look forward to your ideas and comments on the final product. We think heap is the easiest and cleanest CRM in the market, we hope you all agree.

It appears Microsoft has rededicated itself to the destruction of the beloved Windows 2000 Professional operating system. For those not familiar, Windows 2000 is a highly efficient version of Windows XP. It doesn’t have all of the fancy graphics or a lot of the interface rework, but the underlying core was stable and efficient. As a result 2000 became a favorite among IT professionals because of how much faster it ran compared to Windows XP.

Well it seems with the release of Windows Vista, Microsoft has decided that 2000’s time of reckoning has come. Microsoft Office 2007 will not run on 2000.

Now, no Office update is a minor detail in the IT world, but 2007 is even more critical. It now includes standards compliance with the iCalendar format and RSS in Outlook. A faster and (in my opinion) easier to use interface and a new file format that is not downwards compatible.

What is so sad about this is that there is no reason to stop Windows 2000 users from using the new version of Office. In fact all you have to do to get Office 2007 to install is to trick the installer by using an install editor. No, this is about Microsoft wanting Windows 2000 users to buy Vista.

It seems that MySQL has dropped support for Debian Linux. For those of not familiar with Debian, it is an entirely open source platform that has no corporate connection of financial backing of any kind. It is open source and community based in the truest sense.

Now, I’m not someone who believes that no one should make money on Linux. After all I make money by selling products that are dependent on Linux. But I also believe that diversity in the open source community is not only important but vital. Debian is unique in many wonderful ways, and by losing support for the most important database server in the open source community (MySQL), this in some way diminishes Debian’s importance.

I just ran into the best color comparison tool I have ever seen. Adobe Labs has released “kular”; which is easily the most useful app for me as an user experience designer. What kular does is allow you to create groups of colors based on a number of different formulas, allowing for excellent color groups extremely quickly. This allows you to create groups that are distinct and beautiful without spending half your day in Photoshop with a color picker. Thanks Adobe, this is going to save me a lot of time.