A neat look at how Sergio Ruiz, a newcomer to Levenger, has gotten hooked on the Circa notebook.

I am a huge fan of Levenger — office supplies for the geekiest of geeks and pickiest of nitpickers.

If you’ve got plans ship something this year, what better way to promote it than by sponsoring the RSS feed. Booking a sponsorship will put your product or service directly in front of a mighty fine audience of more than 7,000 readers.

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Kev Rodgers went through the Sweet Mac Setups and tallied up all those who use laptops and an external display to see where the laptop is located and if it’s open or closed. I keep my MacBook Pro closed, on the right-hand side, propped up in a Twelve South BookArc Stand.

I’ve wanted to do something like this for a while (especially with the software lists because, to me, those are the real meat of the Sweet Mac Setups). It would be cool to see the stats on what the most popular text editor is, the most popular browser, the most obscure piece of software, any common themes for the ideal setups, etc…

Once again I’d like to thank Seedling for sponsoring the RSS Feed this week. Seedling — which just launched last week — is a website full of recommended websites worth reading. It’s user contributed, yet each listed site is hand chosen by a small team of curators. If you haven’t checked it out yet, you may well find some new reading to kick off the new year with. And, as I mentioned last week, while you’re on the site, be sure to submit all of your favorite reads so the rest of us can discover them.

Seth Godin:

While others were hiding last year, new products were launched, new subscriptions were sold and new companies came into being. While they were laying low, websites got new traffic, organizations grew, and contracts were signed. While they were stuck, money was being lent, star employees were hired and trust was built.

Sean Sperte discovered that Opera is installed with Adobe CS4.

It’s bad enough that an app would install another app. But the kicker here is where Opera get’s installed: inside the Package Contents of the Adobe Bridge app.

Fantastic video tribute to Pixar by Leandro Copperfield using scenes from each of Pixar’s movies. (Via Kottke.)

Update: The Vimeo page has been taken down. Now linking to the YouTube version.

Nathan Alderman reviews Postbox 2, the contender against Apple’s Mail app. Everyone I know who uses Postbox raves about it, including Nathan here. I’ve tried Postbox a few times (once when it was 1.0 and again when it was in 2.0 beta), but after each time I still switched back to Apple’s Mail app.

I spend a lot of time in email during my day and the highlight features of Postbox 2 seem to be right up my alley: better threaded conversations, better attachment handling, and a quick-reply feature. But the app itself just never felt right to me. I seem to be one of the last people on earth who still likes Apple’s Mail app, so perhaps I should give Postbox another spin.