There’s a piece on game industry career advice from the Tech Jobs Expert on Monster.com. And guess what? The article in question features a handful of quotes from little ol’ me!

That’s always fun. :)

I discovered a fantastic application recently called NetVibes.

It’s helped me keep on top of all the game dev news sites and blogs I like to keep track of, as well as collecting other various pieces of information that are important to me.

Basically it’s a My Yahoo! custom home page portal, but it’s INCREDIBLY customizable and allows you to embed miniature applications as well as RSS feeds. There’s a MASSIVE user community behind it that’s constantly developing new embeddable mini apps for anything and everything you could need. Normally I hate apps like this, but there’s some really useful, really smart stuff out there that I’ve made use of.

In addition to that, it’s tabbed like Firefox, so you can have different tabs for different subjects. It’s also super easy to use and set up and modify. Click drag to move stuff around instantly, drag and drop anything anywhere, ‘X’ to close, ‘_’ to minimize… it has a fantastic interface, even though it’s entirely web-based.

I have one page set up with my Google Calendar, a miniature To Do List application (for personal life To-Dos, not work-related ones), and a small persistent notepad I scribble things on. I have Google Calendar’s settings set up to email me my daily agenda and TXT message my phone at a user-defined time before an appointment.

Anytime a news site is updated, Netvibes knows within five minutes and it shows up in one of my little tabs.

Netvibes also lets you share tabs. Here are the ones I use for my game dev news… click the link, then click ‘OK, Preview it’ to see. It’s all web-based and fast and simple. My other pages are for game dev news and news sites I like to read.

These are my game dev news tabs that I share:

Game Industry News

Game-Specific News

Game Industry Articles and Blogs

Netvibes is free, no strings attached, no software to install, no browser plugins required. You go to the website, and it just works, from any location. It’s crazy!

Do any of you use NetVibes, or something like it? How? :)

A good chunk of the articles I write are inspired by people that ask me specific questions about stuff I do on a daily basis. Then I realize my answer to them was long and pretty detailed and worth making a blog post about, and then I do. :) This is one of those.

A friend asked me recently, since I’m “always looking for a better mousetrap,” what do I do to manage my contact information, calendar, appointments, todo lists and notes? As a matter of fact, I have two nifty little applications for doing so! Click on the jump to read more: (more…)

I just installed two new plugins that show the top commenters on the site (not including my chatty self) and also to give you the option to subscribe to the comments feed on a post if you want to keep track of it. :)

Enjoy!