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Shaun Andrews wrote a great post explaining how Backpack has made it possible for him and his wife to maintain a semi-normal working schedule while taking care of their 6-month-old twin boys.

The first day I created the Backpack account was one of the most productive-feeling days I had in months. I quickly set my wife up with an account. In the days following we’ve found so many uses for Backpack. My wife has the great idea of setting up a work schedule calendar, so now we know who’s working when, and who’s watching the boys. Amy also setup a babysitter calendar, so we both know when we have friends and family over for an afternoon, or an evening out. For work, I’ve setup a page for each client and keep track of todos, client emails, notes, etc.

Its great knowing that, at a glance, I’m working tomorrow morning, and have baby duty at 1pm, and that at 6pm a friend is watching the boys so Amy and I can enjoy a night out.

I guess what I really wanted to say is, Thank You! Backpack has changed our lives, and made dealing with the work/life balance so much easier. I’ve even found time to start writing more (using writeboards, of course) and have started keeping track of some of my passion projects (Spendly.com) and am making progress on my goals.

Thank you so much for creating such a useful and easy-to-use tool. Backpack is great, and I look forward to being a happy customer for years to come!

Do you use a 37signals product in an interesting way? Let us know.

listingslab: I uploaded a YouTube video -- Testing out the helmetcam http://youtu.be/G-29psAXDlE?a

Testing out the helmetcam
getting the damn thing to sit right on the helmet so it's pointed in the right direction when you're skiing is very difficult From: listingslab Views: 5 0 ratings Time: 00:16 More in Sports

listingslab: I uploaded a YouTube video -- Putting on a helmet cam today http://youtu.be/hE1S8Z2bDkM?a

Putting on a helmet cam today
ready to go for a quick ski in Le Tour. I've got some headcam footage from VTT on the same lifts last summer, so if the footage comes out out I'm going to make a film called 'Same Le Tour, Different seasons. From: listingslab Views: 6 0 ratings Time: 00:20 More in Sports

FMG, the leading provider of really cool page flippy online magazine publishing platform (Ceros) have hired us to work with them, and to mark the occasion we’ve launched a new blog to our network to help promote their own site http://www.wearefmg.com.

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A lot of people have been asking us why there isn't an international Kindle version of REWORK. (The REWORK Kindle US Edition is available for $9.99 at Amazon. You can also get it for the Nook at Barnes & Noble.)

Unfortunately, there's no simple answer to that. The whole international e-book thing is still a bit of a Wild West environment. While Crown Publishing puts the book out here in the US, the foreign language rights for the book have been sold to different local publishers. It's up to each of these individual foreign publishers as to if/when the book comes out on Kindle.

Here’s what our translation chief at Crown Publishing had to say on the whole international Kindle sales issue:

The UK publisher, Vermilion has e-book rights in UK & Commonwealth exclusively (in the rest of the World non-exclusively). I’m sure they are planning an e-version of REWORK. I’m copying our contact at Vermilion so she can give us more information about their e-book.

There aren’t Kindle editions available in every country, some have different devices or none available at all yet. Also, some of our foreign deals do not grant e-book rights to the publishers as they aren’t equipped yet to exploit these rights (like Indonesia for instance).

In general though, these questions by consumers about Kindle availability would be most easily handled if the authors directed people to the publishers in the countries where the book has already sold. They should list these publishers on their website so that people can go directly to the source.

So here's a list of these foreign publishers so anyone who is interested can contact them directly:

• Bahasa (Indonesia): P.T. Gramedia Pustaka
• Chinese (China): China Critic Press
• Dutch: Uitgeverij Mouria (Update: They will publish Rework in e-book and hardcover in August. The e-book will not be a Kindle edition however, but an epub-file, which can be used with all e-readers except the Kindle.)
• English (UK): Vermilion (Update: Rework will be available as an e-book on March 18 through various UK online retailers: Amazon, Waterstones and WH Smiths.)
• French Canada: Editions Transcontinental
• German: Verlagsgruppe Random
• Italian: ETAS / RCS Libri
• Japanese: Hayakawa Shobo
• Polish: Spoleczny Instytut W
• Portuguese (Brazil): GMT Editores
• Spanish: Ediciones Urano S.A.

We'll keep working to find out more specific information on future release plans for international editions. Thanks for your patience and understanding. And if you contact a foreign publisher and find out relevant information, please let us know by sending an email to rework[at]37signals[dot]com. Thank you.

Work Smarter: 37signals is a WIRED UK profile of 37signals. Along the way it mentions how design studio Tinker.it! uses Basecamp.

"Basecamp really helped us communicate in the early days of our business when we had collaborators both in London and in Italy and needed to share what everyone was up to," says Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino, co-founder of design studio Tinker.it! "It allowed us to be on the same page with the way projects were going, edit proposals for clients and share files."

Read the full piece.

A lot of people have been asking us why there isn't an international Kindle version of REWORK. (The REWORK Kindle US Edition is available for $9.99 at Amazon.) Unfortunately, there's no simple answer to that. The whole international e-book thing... 37signals

listingslab: I uploaded a YouTube video -- snippy does chamonix http://youtu.be/jif1Ue45j94?a

snippy does chamonix
snippy. marks mate. From: listingslab Views: 9 0 ratings Time: 02:35 More in Sports

Highrise Tasks are a great way to keep track of what's on your plate. You can also assign tasks to other people on your team. To do that, select a user’s name from the “Who’s responsible” pulldown menu. That person... 37signals

Highrise Tasks are a great way to keep track of what's on your plate. You can also assign tasks to other people on your team. To do that, select a user’s name from the “Who’s responsible” pulldown menu.

That person will now be assigned that task. They will also get an email letting them know the task was assigned to them.

To see the tasks you’ve assigned other people, click on the Tasks tab then click on the “Assigned” link.

You’ll then see a list of all the open tasks you’ve assigned other people. (Note: If someone checked off the task and marked it done, you won’t see it.)

Learn more about Tasks.

The 37signals business book REWORK is now in stores. Learn more at this post at Signal vs. Noise or at the REWORK site. 37signals

The 37signals business book REWORK is now in stores.

       

Learn more at this post at Signal vs. Noise or at the REWORK site.