Every time I refresh my Mint page (always open in a tab of its own) I wonder the same thing briefly in the back of my mind, “Will this be the day that my site takes off?â€Â And for a few seconds while the page reloads I can imagine what it would be like to see several hundred visits for the day instead of a couple dozen.
Let’s all send Mark some traffic today…
Randy Bohlender, and The Death of Voice Mail. –
At the end of the day, visual voice mail helps you do what you want to do with voice mail – ignore them, but with greater flexibility. I’m beyond prioritizing them. I’m ready to ignore them all. […]
So today I killed my voice mail. Actually, I didn’t even give it the dignity of doing the deed myself. I took out a contract on it. I had my assistant kill it for me. She called the cell phone company this afternoon and said “The voice mail….can you just turn it off? Yes. Off. He doesn’t want it.”
Chris Bowler’s new site, The Weekly Review, has a ton of promise. I love his first zinger: A Tale of Two Apps –
Two applications with the same purpose and offered by the same company – Newsgator. One designed for the Mac, one designed for Windows.
And you might want to check out “Communities“. It’s a great read.
Shirt Pocket’s backup utility for mere mortals was all the buzz today, and rightly so; SuperDuper! rocks. The fact that this update was so talked about seems like proof to me that backing up matters more to people, and that we don’t fully trust Time Machine.
Cameron Hunt has finally migrated his site over to all Chyrp, all the time. (It’s a long story.) His site has a few new tweaks, and still looks sharp, but I have 35 “unread” headlines in my feed reader.
Also, I hate to let the cat out of the bag early, but Cameron and I are just finishing up a great interview. You can watch for it sometime soon.
In summary, MarsEdit 2.1 has a new search feature, a new capsule-based tags editor, support for Movable Type tags, support for saving drafts to the server, massively improved preview performance and usability, and a bunch of other performance boosts and feature tweaks.
The first major update to MarsEdit since 2.0 came out last fall. I had the privilege to help with the beta testing and I’ll tell you that there are some great additions and improvements.
And if you’re wondering, yes I have a review coming out shortly.
It looks great, Ben. So what are you up to now? Version 18b1?
The dudes at Panic recently created a Developer Zone for Coda, with video tutorials, quick tips, overviews and more. If you’ve been looking at or using Coda lately this is a great resource to check out.
Though Steven may have the loudest key taps and mouse clicks I’ve ever heard on a screencast.
Brent Simmons, Things you may not know about NetNewsWire 3.1 (part two: reading stuff) –
More stuff you may not know about NetNewsWire
Sean Sperte’s Awesome Introduction to Expression Engine –
I mentioned that one of the primary reasons to choose Expression Engine is because it’s easy to learn, deploy and use; and that’s true. But the main reason I use it is because of its power and flexibility — most of which is found in features exclusive to EE.
To me, EE users seem like this quiet bunch who are walking around with a secret and a hop in their step. If you happen to ask them about it they will proudly brag on how much they love their CMS.
Brent Simmons kicks off Things you may not know about NetNewsWire 3.1 (part one: browser stuff) with a ton of useful info.
If you’re using NNW as your feed-reader, and I recommend you do, then you probably want to read this article.
Brent Simmons on NetNewsWire’s compatibility with other Desktop Apps: Your RSS Router –
One of my favorite features of NetNewsWire is how it works with a bunch of other desktop apps. The idea is this: news comes in to NetNewsWire, and then you route stuff to wherever it should go.
Matt Mullenweg on the recent investment funding for WordPress –
Automattic is now positioned to execute on our vision of a better web not just in blogging, but expanding our investment in anti-spam, identity, wikis, forums, and more — small, open source pieces, loosely joined with the same approach and philosophy that has brought us this far.
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