Hey folks. Well, it’s not quite Hallowe’en yet, but here at the FreshBooks World Headquarters, we’re getting a jump on the holiday and we thought you’d get a kick out of this. Taavi and I came in on the weekend with a can of spray paint and a defenseless Bondi iMac and today the FreshBooks office is now properly festive for Hallowe’en with our new iMac-O-Lantern!

Boo!

We got the idea from this awesome Instructables article. Today somebody went and added a FreshBooks leaf to our newest little orange friend, so he’s properly branded.

Roadburn

Can I get a woot woot? You’ve been asking us for an iPhone application for a while. We were delightfully surprised to learn our free iPod Touch and iPhone Time Tracking application was approved by Apple at midnight last night! (Search for “FreshBooks” in the iTunes App Store.)

Just like our Mac OS X Dashboard widget, you can track time in FreshBooks against projects and tasks, and you can keep notes for each time entry. You can also manually edit the time by clicking on the clock.

We went golfing Friday afternoon. To keep things interesting on the course (at least when Grace was not climbing trees) we played “one putt poker”. One putt poker works like this:

1. At the start of the round everyone is dealt two cards.
2. Every time you “one putt” a green, you earn another card. Less experienced golfers got two putts.
3. At the end of the round, the person with the best poker hand wins.

This game is great when you have people with wildly different levels of experience on the golf course, and on Friday, only about half the team had ever played golf before. Congrats to Dan W for bringing home the title.