I’m not what you’d call a Dashboard poweruser. It’s a great app, but until now I just haven’t come across that many really useful widgets.

Sundial is a sweet one developed by the prodigious minds over at Clearwired. As with any great widget, it does one thing, and it does it really well.  Sundial allows you to log time directly to your Basecamp Plus or Premium account.

We’ve upgraded our MethodArts Basecamp account to Plus (from Free) to take advantage of time tracking (as well as file sharing, and a few other features that I think are really going to make Basecamp worth the investment ).

A few notes on using Sundial 1.0:
If you use multiple Basecamp accounts, simply create a separate instance of Sundial from the Dashboard widget bar.

You can also jump directly to your Basecamp account from the widget… ...(more)

I’m all signed up for An Event Apart, Seattle. By far my favorite part of conference-going is meeting other people who get excited by the same things I do. I’ll be traveling with 9ruler, and “celebrity blogger” Brian Warren. An Event Apart will coincide with the official launch of our new consortium, so we wanted to throw a small event of our own.

Our group has been working together now for almost 5 months, and it’s been quite an experience. Big changes are in the wind:

- CSS freak of nature Brian Warren has officially gone solo.
- We’ve launched our first collaborative project. Some good stories there, and when we have a place to write about them, we’ll do just that.
- Vincent Thome has also officially said goodbye to his temporary cubicle job. I think he wants to become a blogger when he grows up.

So, we’re inviting anyone… ...(more)