Ambrosia Crew: 360 degrees of Awesome

Posted Dec 15 2009, 07:34 PM

ROCHESTER, New York -- December 15, 2009 -- Like any good journalist, photographer Will Yurman decided to follow up on a little story he had photographed for Rochester's newspaper "Democrat and Chronicle". His original photo capturing the fresh young face of a programmer, and the start of a new local business. This person in the photograph: Andrew Welch. The date: December 15th, 1993.

Exactly 16 years later, the same photographer returned, this time armed with better equipment to see how well this programmer and his little company called "Ambrosia Software" were doing. Pleasantly surprised to see that like that programmer, the software company had too grown into something much more distinguished. This time Will's lens managed to capture nearly all it's crew in a full 360 degrees!

Please click the link below and check out the "Round Rochester" section to see the faces of the crew that work so hard to bring you award winning products and services! The audio is from Andrew Welch and the PR Guru John Champlin.

http://www.democratandchronicle.com/roundrochester/ambrosia

Sending Holiday Cards made Easy: EasyEnvelopes

Posted Dec 11 2009, 07:01 PM

Having problems printing out all those holiday cards this season?  Worried about how long it's taking you to copy them all from your Mac's Address Book?  Then fear not, Give Ambrosia's free EasyEnvelopes Widget a try!

Just one of the many time saving applications that Ambrosia offers, and this one is absolutely free! You can use EasyEnvelopes to quickly print all of those addresses on your holiday card list! Thanks to its integration with Address Book, it allows you to quickly find a person's address to print an envelope for. Not only does it save you time, but it also handles USPS bar codes for both 5 and 9 digit bar codes.

EasyEnvelopes works with any country's addressing format, and is fully international-friendly and localizable. It lets you control the size of your envelope, the formatting for the return address and mailing address, and much more. Print envelopes the quick and easy way this holiday season with EasyEnvelopes!

Download it here!

http://www.ambrosiasw.com/utilities/easyenvelopes/

Happy Thanksgiving from Ambrosia!

Posted Nov 26 2009, 12:00 AM

The Scratching Post: Cleaning Up the Streets! (alternative title: Ewwwwww)

Posted Oct 16 2009, 06:50 PM

For our large contributions to general debauchery, we here at Ambrosia also try to bring some positive change to the world at large (conceal your surprise-- we're good people, I swear it!!). In a previous post, I mentioned our adopted school in Bonao. One of our more recent initiatives is participation in the local Adopt-A-Highway program.

Let's get honest for a minute here-- Adopt-A-Highway is undeniably not the most glamourous or rewarding volunteer work. For those who may not know about the program, it basically involves paying the state for the privilege of cleaning up a stretch of road in your community. Now, I know I said we like to give back, but let me clarify that "like" and "enjoy" are not necessarily synonymous. Nobody really *enjoys* cleaning up other people's garbage (except for Jake, who, as our eco-enthusiast and IT manager, is used to that sort of thing), but every 3 months, we don our fluorescent yellow vests and take to the streets like some geeky silicon valley chain gang.

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The Scratching Post: Summer Winds Down; Ambrosia Gets Snow... Leopard!

Posted Sep 11 2009, 03:26 PM

Ah, September in Rochester. As the summertime subtly slips into its colorful autumn attire, those of us who will inevitably be spending the upcoming months under a prosaic icy white blanket are squeezing in a few sunny last-hurrahs. For a little change of pace, I have been staying put and enjoying the late-season Western New York scenery.

While my own summer wanderings have seemingly come to a halt, some of my coworkers are still following the travel bug. Evan and his family recently took a weekend trip down to Allegany State Park where they befriended the area wildlife-- including a black bear with a late night hankering for cheese curds! John took the long Labor Day weekend to adventure up the Atlantic, hitting up Massachusetts and Maine along the way. Though he was fighting a cold, John made the most of his trip to the eastern seaboard, returning well-rested, and with a cooler full of unwitting lobster (mmmm tasty ignorance).

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