If you’ve used Staction, you probably know we’re keyboard people. The mouse is great, but nothing flies quite as fast as our fingers on a keyboard. If you work in the web-dev industry, you probably feel the same. 

Outside of design related tasks, there’s very little that can be achieved with a mouse that can’t be achieved (usually faster) with a keyboard. Knowing your key commands improves the speed and fluency of interacting with your computer.

On that note, we thought we would share some of our favorite indispensable key commands. We bet you know a lot of them- but we also bet you don’t know all of them. So for the 5 seconds a day, 2.5 minutes a month, and 30.4 minutes a year we just saved you, you are most assuredly welcome.  Keep Reading

In Jumpchart, you can copy an existing project, give a new user full access privileges (so they can change as much as they want) and still maintain a clean master copy for your own use.

In Jumpchart, you can include un-rendered code in your content. Just surround your code with “@” signs and it’ll look like this: <h1>heading<h1>.

Here at Paste we decided that we’d like you to get to know us a little better. To do that, we’re starting a new string of posts called “The 5 Series.” In these short articles, we’ll give you little insights into our personal lives (but never TMI!).

And so, meet Brian, our main developer of both Jumpchart and Staction. Here are 5 desktop apps he uses most often.

1. Things.app
“I use Things on my Mac and iPhone to keep my life outside work organized. I keep wishlists, gift ideas, grocery lists and much more on it. The synchronization with my iPhone makes it perfect to take everywhere I go.”

2. Yojimbo
“I started using this to plan a trip last month, and haven’t been able to stop using it since! It’s my little box of collection of things I’ll need sometime in the future.”

3. Tweetie
“Again, I use it for my Mac and iPhone- it’s just the best Twitter client.”

4. Airfoil and Airfoil Speakers
“Whenever I’m working in the living room, this pair of apps works perfectly to stream music from my laptop to my media center that’s connected to my home theater system.”

5. Audio Hijack Pro
“I use this to mute the sound on Firefox. I hate websites and banners that play music!”

We’ve spent the past two years watching Jumpchart grow, and have seen some great developments in that period of time. It feels like watching a kid get another year older; we can’t wait to see what Jumpchart is capable of doing in the years to come!

So… Happy Birthday to Jumpchart!

Jumpchart is turning two, and to celebrate, we’re giving the presents instead of getting them. Tune in to our Twitter feed for all kinds of coupons and free stuff- it’s happening all month long!

You can follow us here: http://twitter.com/_paste.

If you take a look at the reasons we create web apps, it boils down to mainly one thing: organization. With that in mind, it makes sense that we keep organization simple. If we don’t, we get wrapped up in everything that had us disorganized in the first place. Simple. Is. Better. 

Veteran creative director Rich Barrett recently talked to readwriteweb about some of the online trends he sees today.  Keep Reading

It’s strange- we used to think we were in the business of creating web apps.

What we sell isn’t bundled up javascript, and glossy buttons… We sell a process. We sell conceptual ways to work and organize. 

The thing to keep in mind is that people are actually buying into something completely different when you think they’re buying nothing more than your product. They’re buying…

... the attitude of your company.

... the belief that the process you preach is better than the alternatives.

... the experience of participating in your brand. Keep Reading

Our mission: to make yet another bridge between website planning and website running. A couple of months back we launched a new export format in Jumpchart that allows our users to swoop their project straight into the WordPress CMS. We think it works great, and we got a lot of amazing feedback from our users.

While WordPress is a widely used CMS, unfortunately we don’t use it for most of our own web projects. We have a totally custom built system that we’ve been constantly tweaking and evolving for three years to fit our exact needs — internally, we call it Haydn (after Joseph).

So how were we going to make link between Haydn and Jumpchart? Keep Reading

This was part of the description on the back of a bottle of wine I was enjoying with a friend a few years back. At the time we got a huge laugh out of this phrase because it seemed quite out of place to describe wine, and a particularly cheap one at that, as something that could be focused and deliberate. It’s taken me a few years to see what they were alluding to with that lofty pronouncement but underlying those two words are concepts that can help take your project to the next level. Keep Reading

Internally, we’ve been talking a lot about managing growth and getting more organized. We’re a small company, super small in the grand scheme. So the fact that both Jumpchart and Staction each grow a little every single day creates a new job description for each of us daily. When we started building web apps, we thought these things would be our job: Keep Reading