Martini Hour 018, In Which Deke Takes on Two Women at Once

If you've ever had one too many martinis and can't remember where you stored the components of your complicated project, this week's guest has the answer for you. Veteran product manager, Karen Gauthier—our first ever international visitor to the dekeLounge—travels all the way from Ottawa (that's in Canada, you know) to bring us a preview of GridIron Flow. Flow is an amazing product that keeps track of your digital files and presents them to you in a beautiful, detailed map. In fact, Flow is so sexy it inspired this week's graphic.

We're guessing Flow will be the Best New Design Product of 2009, and we have something special for you: a wicked good deal. Thanks to our large and swelling ranks (>10,000 members before the month is out!), GridIron Software has seen fit to offer denizens of dekeTropolis a special deal: $50 off the purchase price of Flow. It's a unique discount available only from this URL: gridironflow.com/deke. Would we steer you wrong? No we would not. (We choose our partners! They do not choose us! Power to the dekeple!)

As you consider your purchase, here's what's in store in this week's episode:

Karen explains how Flow works behind the scenes to track your assets (even those that are offline), keeps you from accidentally trashing important files, saves versions of your file, and generally does so "without changing the way you work."

Listen also as Karen dispells the myth of Canadian politeness by swearing like a sailor. (Albeit, a softly spoken one.) Suffice it to say, we are not sh%#ing the sh@t with an ordinary product manager.

Interested? How can you resist? Here's the regular-quality (192kbps) audio file. You can stream, or for best results, right-click and choose Download or Save.

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