AppleScript – I. Love. Merlin.
Vicky Stamatopoulou on 27. August 2010
I was reading a post of Eric D. Brown by the title I. Love. WordPress. It was a ”wow” effect, I just had to write in our blog here I. Love. WordPress too but I. Love. Merlin. more 
We use WordPress for our blog, and have experience from other blogging systems as well. So I am completely with Eric Brown on that. WordPress is great, but…
Merlin has an even better / warmer position in my heart. Merlin is a professional tool, one can see this at one glance…
Tags: Applescript, Merlin
Can I use Merlin for project management on Windows?
Vicky Stamatopoulou on 24. August 2010
A question we receive eventually in support is the following:
We have seen Merlin running on mac and are pretty sure it covers our needs for project management. Where do we find download files for Windows or Linux? We have no Macs in our company.
Our answer:
Merlin is a native Mac OS X application and Merlin Server is implemented as a MAC OS X system preference pane. Following system requirements apply:
There is no Windows or Linux version available, sorry.
(In case you’ve missed the “Get a Mac” ads series of 2008 here is a link on YouTube ;-))
Tags: Linux, Merlin, System requirements, Windows
Merlin – copy activities quickly into the library
Vicky Stamatopoulou on 23. August 2010
Merlin’s library is a very practical feature. You can place there project structures, elements or documents often used in your projects and find contacts of your AddressBook, Entourage or an LDAP server to use as resources in new projects.
To place new objects into your library you can use drag & drop. An even quicker way is to right (or ctrl) click your selection and call “Copy to Library”
Easy, isn’t it?
You may want to watch the relevant video on YouTube
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Tags: Library, Merlin, Merlin 101
Merlin iPhone 1.1 with support for iPad is out!
Frank Blome on 5. August 2010
The new version 1.1 of Merlin iPhone comes with support for iPhone 4 and iPad. The handling of the mobile Merlin does not change, it’s still the same ease of use. The new version is optimized for the Retina Display of the iPhone 4 and the bigger iPad display.
Merlin iPhone can be downloaded for free from the Apple App Strore. With the new update Merlin iPhone supports all versions of iPhone, iPad touch and iPad. More information about Merlin iPhone can be found on our website in the “Products” section.
Tags: iPad, iPhone 4, iPhone OS, Merlin, Merlin iPhone
Merlin 2.7.7 is available
Frank Blome on 29. July 2010
Today we published another maintenance update for Merlin and Merlin Server. Here are the changes.
Resolved Issues in Merlin
- In combined projects, the utilization view was not refreshing under some circumstances.
- The resource’s cost accrual setting “at start” did produce the same result as “prorated”.
- Start dates of linked projects were deletable via the project link inspector.
- In Merlin Web Sharing, the default time zone was not set to GMT, which resulted in wrong creation dates of elements.
- Fixed an issue in the licensing system for Merlin iPhone.
- The status attribute was not selectable from within the predicate editor for elements.
- The value for “Given Startmode” was not exported properly in CSV export.
- Some access rights on creating project files did not set correctly.
- The “Merlin Quick Guide” is now in French language as well.
- Some translation issues have been fixed.
Resolved Issues in Merlin Server
- Merlin Server brought an error message for port 7090 after some time of work.
- Merlin did hang on saving a master project with aliases on Merlin Server files.
- A crash could appear when all numbers of a port of a custom server were deleted.
Tags: Merlin, Merlin Server, Merlin Web, Release notes, Update
Merlin iPhone – how does it work?
Vicky Stamatopoulou on 6. July 2010
Merlin iPhone is such a great option for mobile project managers. Share your projects with Merlin for Mac OS X and the optional iPhone sharing service or use a Merlin Server in which iPhone share is build-in. As long as you have a connection to the mobile data net or WLAN hotspot, with Merlin iPhone you can access your project from anywhere.
It all sounds great to you but how does it work? Easy and straight forwards (as always in Merlin).
Check screenshots of the app in the product page, watch accompanied screencasts illustrating the functionality, read the Merlin iPhone QuickStart Guide, or test it for your own.
Wherefrom to download it? Merlin iPhone app is available in iTunes Store as free download.
Not always online? That’s fine with Merlin iPhone. You can view your project offline, and will need an online connection only when making changes and populating the new state of your project.
What about iPad or the new iOS 4? Merlin iPhone runs on iPhone 4 and on iPhone devices with iOS 4 just as well. Our developers are already working on an adjusted version to look better on the iPad or the new iPhone 4, so stay tuned.
How do I setup my router? Just proceed as explained in our blog post ‘using Merlin’s web module‘. Web and iPhone sharing are both using the same port and our configuration suggestions apply for iPhone sharing too.
Tags: iOS 4, iPad, iPhone 4, Merlin, Merlin iPhone, Merlin Server, Merlin Web, PM
Stateside 7-2-10
Dave Prior on 2. July 2010
Frank Illenberger
My Project Potion interview with AVTechnology.com Editor Kevin Hogan on emerging telepresence technology went live this week. For those of you (like me) who are not hip to the new AV lingo, “emerging telepresence technology” can be interpreted as new video conferencing stuff. It was a rare thing for me to be able to interview Kevin, not just because he had a lot of insightful information and ideas about what changes we should expect in the way of AV tech impacting our ability to communicate with teams in other countries, but also because Kevin is one of my oldest and closest friends. There were a few signal dropouts in the recording, but whaddaya gonna do – it ‘s Skype. You can find the video here.
This week I also had the opportunity to interview Frank Illenberger, Lead Developer for ProjectWizards. We discussed WWDC, the iPad, the iPhone4 and how those devices may impact the project management workscape. (more…)
Tags: Dave Prior, iPad, iPhone OS, Merlin, Merlin iPhone, PM, Project Manager, WWDC
Addicted to phone apps
Vicky Stamatopoulou on 18. June 2010
In today’s Dilbert, a woman goes to the shrink. She consults here doctor, because she got addicted to buying phone apps she doesn’t need. Does this sound familiar to you? I bet it does. How many apps have you bought already, used only once or twice, and deleted afterwards from your iPhone? I am sure they were quite a few. At least I know how often this happens to me. I know, some iPhone app vendors offer their apps in two versions: free and full featured paid app. In theory one can test the free app and if the iPhone user likes it or need more features, he or she may buy the paid version. Yes, this is theory. But how realistic is it, that you will find first the free version of an app and not the paid one? Have you checked the statistics of your iTunes account lately? You would be surprised to see how much money was spent on unneeded buys.
So isn’t great, that you can download Merlin iPhone app for free and test before purchasing a license for Merlin iPhone sharing? If you like it, if it works fine for you, you can buy the additional license for Merlin from our store. If not, just remove the Merlin iPhone app from your iPhone and you are done. That’s fair, isn’t?
BTW if you are interested in finding out how Dilbert’s comic strip goes, (more…)
Tags: Merlin, Merlin iPhone
Merlin, global unit for calculated durations
Vicky Stamatopoulou on 15. June 2010
From time to time we receive requests on how to set up a global unit for calculated durations. So for example:
…when planning my project in Merlin, the calculated duration of the project is
shown in a dynamic unit, i.e. day, week, month, year, depending on the
length of the activity. How do I fix it to show weeks? We mainly operate in
weeks…
Well nothing simpler than that. (more…)
Tags: Durations, Merlin, Merlin 101, Units
Merlin, time units
Vicky Stamatopoulou on 9. June 2010
Project management with Merlin on Mac OS X is easy. With Merlin you can plan tasks requiring only some seconds, days, weeks or years of your resource’s time. It all works like a charm. Merlin can handle short or long durations just as well.
To make things even easier, Merlin is implemented this way, that you don’t need to spell out the time unit. You can use the first one or two letters of the unit and expect the application to recognize it according to the list below.
- se OR sec = Seconds
- min OR mi = Minutes
- h OR ho = Hours
- d OR da = Days
- w OR we = Weeks
- m OR mo = Months
- y = Years
We’ve told you it’s easy, haven’t we?
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Tags: Merlin, Merlin 101, Time, Units
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