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Posts Tagged ‘InBloom’

The Best Help Manual… Ever?

By Emile • Jan 2nd, 2008 • Category: General

In the world of software and ever-increasing complexity in software, help manuals with proper grammar, clearly written language, and even better visual demonstrations of functionality are a hard thing to come by.  Should software even have a manual? How would you explain advanced functionality to users? As I’m finishing the 50+ page to the InBloom […]



Secret Weapon Notes: The Inspiration Edition

By Emile • Sep 17th, 2007 • Category: General

Inspiration can come from every corner and from any time period. Here’s what I mean:

InBloom, SWL’s featured software made for retail businesses that operate on consginment like resale / consignment / ebay consignment shops, is getting more and more writeups, have a look for yourself.
Thoughts and pics of the original Macintosh user manual - […]



Introducing InBloom, a new application from SWL

By Emile • Sep 11th, 2007 • Category: FileMaker, General, InBloom, Software

InBloom is the first-ever complete shop solution made to organize your store and run on your Mac, PC, or both. It’s the only inventory management, point of sale, check printing, contact & buyer management, and more solution that is networkable and customizable. You can use and create the sexiest reports & receipts you’ve ever seen, share data and network computers with multiple users, and it doesn’t require a whole technology staff to run. All you need is your computer and a printer.



The 2007 Philosophy

By Emile • Feb 5th, 2007 • Category: General

The logo for Secret Weapon Labs has been a bit of a creative prick/splinter in my mind for years. I’ve designed a number of logos but the one for my own company has never satisfied me, or at least satisfied me for more than a couple of days, for one reason or another. […]