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"Mozilla Labs is launching a series of experiments to bridge the divide in the user experience between web applications and desktop apps"
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"If you want to do something that's going to change the world, build software that people want to use instead of software that managers want to buy."
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TechCrunch White Label Social Networking Platforms Chart
Everything you need to know about white label social networking.
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Visual voicemail for the BlackBerry. Take that iPhone.
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Nocturne: Free "night vision" app from the maker of Quicksilver
"If you enjoy sitting outside with your laptop, but the sun is making your screen almost illegible, try flipping Nocturne on  the contrast and darker backgrounds should help make reading and navigating much easier."
One-Window Web Development for Mac OS X.
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PHPlist: Email Confirmation not arriving
I spent hours trying to figure why the confirmation email wasn't arriving. Turns out I just needed to "make sure you have [quote]define ("TEST",0);[/quote] in your 'config/config.php' file." So simple . . .
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Yahoo! Go. The Internet to go.
"Yahoo Go! is the first application optimized for the “small screen� of a mobile phone that truly makes it easy and fun to access the Internet."
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Put Any YouTube Video On Your iPod
Lots of tips and software to pull YouTube videos right off the site.
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Oh the emails you'll get . . .
On management consulting: "The whole fraud is only possible because performance metrics in knowledge organizations are completely trivial to game. "
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"With Desktopple, you can quickly and easily hide all of your Desktop clutter. A quick trip to your menu bar is all it takes."
"activeCollab is an easy to use, web based, open source collaboration and project management tool. Set up an environment where you, your team and your clients can collaborate on active projects using a set of simple, functional tools. 100% free!"
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"Image Tricks is a free application to edit and generate images. It uses Mac OS X Tiger Core Image filters that transform pictures to unimaginable extent and apply advanced visual effects. "
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"Ray builds software that allows lawyers to monitor what they pay attention to so that they can bill clients accurately."
"Wife 1.0 has an undocumented bug. If you try to install Mistress 1.1 before uninstalling Wife 1.0, Wife 1.0 will delete MSMoney files before doing the uninstall itself."
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"Rain or shine, Damian Mogavero's Slingshot brings left-brain discipline to a right-brain world."
"VoodooPad automatically links each page together, to form a miniature world wide web, on your desktop! Anybody familiar with the WikiWikiWeb will feel right at home with VoodooPad."
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"The new browser includes a search box in the upper-right corner that is typically set up to send users to Microsoft's MSN search service. Google contends that this puts Microsoft in a position to unfairly grab Web traffic and advertising dollars . . . "
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"Iconographer is a fully-featured icon editor. It allows you to both change the icons of items and to edit the icon resources used by various programs."
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"SuperDuper is the wildly acclaimed program that makes recovery painless, because it makes creating a fully bootable backup painless."
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"Boot Camp gives switchers a comfortable out if they wind up not liking or in any way regretting their switch to Mac OS X: they can use their Mac as a bona fide first-class Windows box."
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"NewsLetter is a free batch emailer, speciallly thought for newsletters. . . it features the creation of plain text and HTML messages (simple or multipart)."
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"An Open Source Tagging / Folksonomy module for PHP/MySQL applications."
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A Mac uninstaller that will take $.05 off the price for every blogger that links to it.
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"ExpressionEngine is a highly flexible, feature-rich web publishing system that empowers individuals, organizations, and companies around the world to create dynamic, content-driven websites."
Lifehacker's list of the best free software out there.
Josh Porter thinks about the three attributes a successful piece of web magic must have.
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"A small utility that will convert your Mac icons to Windows XP icons. The utility is free and part of the public domain. Source is available. Download size is just 50kB. That's about all you need to know."
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Nick Denton lists the tools he uses.
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capture, manage, access and deliver content across your enterprise
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The boom in the intellectual property market will not reap rewards for us all
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Step-by-step instructions for using Mac the Ripper and DVD2oneX to rip and burn DVDs.
Exclusive: Full text of Gates email, Ozzie memo
Leaked copies of both emails detailing the changes Microsoft must make to keep up with the "OO"ses
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"ColourMod originally made its deput as a web-based DHTML Dynamic Colour Picker. Since the inception of the newest OS from Apple, OS X Tiger, ColourMod has been ported to the Dashboard interface."
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"CEO Jason Fried's startup philosophy can be summed up in three short words: Keep it simple"
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"CSSVista is a free Windows application for web developers which lets you edit your CSS code live in both Internet Explorer and Firefox simultaneously."
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"The purpose of this site is to aid new switchers in jumping straight to a lot of the amazingly good stuff that's available. All of the applications that are mentioned in the Quick Looks are used by me on a day to day basis."
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How to cut through the info blitz and actually get some work done
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"FinderPop makes this process a lot easier by allowing you to list aliases to desired applications directly in the Finder's contextual menu."
Top Ten Mac OS X Freeware/Shareware Applications
Andy Budd: "Here are my current top ten OS X freeware and shareware applications. What are yours and why?"
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"FontExplorer X sets a new standard for font management software."
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"Pixen is the best program for the pixel artist using Mac OS X. There is no competition, not even from the huge companies with several-hundred-dollar software suites."
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"Textpander listens to what you type and inserts predefined text snippets on the fly whenever you enter their corresponding abbreviations."
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"Onlife is an application for the Mac OS X that observes your every interaction with sofware applications such as Safari, Mail and iChat and then creates a personal shoebox of all the web pages you visit, emails you read, documents you write and much more
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A free ruler application for measuring in pixels or inches on the screen.
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Interview with Jason Fried of 37Signals
"The best marketing in the world is to give people products they love. Give them things they want to tell others about."
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"The web is listening to what you have to say. Admiring your design. Talking about your product. Mint helps you identify where the most interest is being generated and over what."
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"Paparazzi! is a small utility for Mac OSX that makes screenshots of webpages."
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"A key business challenge today is to share a large critical Power Point presentation instantly. With it’s powerful compression ability PowerShrink allows you to do that."
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" A small, lightweight application timer for OS X. It keeps track (in increments of five seconds) how long you spend in each application."
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"Google Talk enables you to call or send instant messages to your friends for free–anytime, anywhere in the world."
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Getting Real: The problem with preferences, interface design, and the customer experience
"And that’s the point I want to make. One of the hidden dangers of highly customized software, and products flush with preferences, is that it becomes very difficult to craft an ideal customer experience."
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On Cory Doctorow's Apple/Trusted Computer rant: "Doctorow is clearly ascribing deviousness onto Apple, without a single shred of evidence to back it up."
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Apple to add Trusted Computing to the new kernel?
"My data is my life, and I won't keep it in a strongbox that someone else has the keys for."
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Killer resources for entrepreneurs
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Side-Business Software: The neglected software market
"Who cares about the Fortune 500? It’s time to care about the Fortune 5,000,000."
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"Simply click one button while you're listening to a favourite shared track and it's copied to your machine, and added to the iTunes Music Library (and a playlist, so you can keep track of your downloads)."
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Typo is a lean engine that makes blogging easy.
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NeoOffice/J is a fully-featured set of office applications (including word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, and drawing programs) for Mac OS X.
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Our Widgets Preference Pane for Mac OS X allows you to truly take control of your Widgets
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Profile Manager is a database driven, easy-to-install, fully-functional and Free membership system. When a user registers it automatically adds the information about the user into the database.
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Open source software companies undercutting other open source software companies. Sounds like war.
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"When viewing mail you can apply the "Act-On" action for a message by making simple keystrokes."
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Rails Day is a competition which gives teams of developers 24 hours to build the best web app that they can using Ruby on Rails.
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"Taboo is a simple Safari hack which provides a warning before quitting or closing a browser window containing multiple tabs."
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KeyCue helps you to use your Mac OS X applications more effectively by displaying a concise table of all currently available menu shortcuts.
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GarrettDimon.com: "Here's a list of programs I can't live without."
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MacStumbler is a utility to display information about nearby 802.11b and 802.11g wireless access points.
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Gates: Tech must tackle information overload
Mercury News: "Nobody's paid to do search or just find information. At the end of the day you're paid for designing a new product, having a satisfied customer and doing that with the minimum amount of time, the minimum amount of people.''
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Getting Things Done on a Macintosh
Ask MetaFilter: How do you stay organized on your Mac?
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Puts your ToDo lists in your menu bar and synchronizes with iCal.
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"Enjoy a classic game of Minesweeper instantly available in your Dashboard. The interface emulates the timeless Windows minesweeper game."
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A nice long list of menubar items for download
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The assault on software giant Microsoft
The next two years will be crucial for software giant Microsoft. Under attack on numerous fronts, it could falter - or fight back to become even more dominant.
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Widget Manager is a Preference Pane for OSX 10.4 that allows you to inspect, remove, and disable Dashboard Widgets.
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Quite simply put, CSSEdit will save your sanity when editing style sheets. Its intuitive approach to style sheets and powerful editing features will make you deliver beautiful standards-based sites in no time!
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Hog Bay Notebook lets you record and organize your ideas in a convenient way. Bring order to your Mac with this simple and powerful tool.
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"Index your del.icio.us bookmarks using Spotlight."
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Wouldn't it be neat if Dashboard popped up by itself after a certain amount of system idle time? It will be pretty neat indeed, right after you download and install Dasher, a preference pane that gets your Dash' on automatically.
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Macworld: "Tiger’s been out less than a week, and there are already a number of interesting utilities to customize itâ€â€in subtle waysâ€â€to your preferences; here’s a rundown of some of the first."
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Amnesty Widget Browser is a utility for Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger that allows Dashboard widgets to live directly on your Desktop via a convenient icon in your system menu bar.
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This is no PowerPoint presentation
SF Chronicle: "Executives and analysts who have tried it say MindManager offers a more dynamic way to make presentations than PowerPoint, in which a user lays out ideas in a series of slides."
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Growl is a global notification system for Mac OS X. Any application can send a notification to Growl, which will display an attractive message on your screen. Growl currently works with a growing number of applications.
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Often you don't need the exact time in hours, minutes and seconds. A more human readable style like "five past ten" makes more sense. For that, you can now use FuzzyClock. FuzzyClock is a menubar clock which displays the current time in a "fuzzy" style.
For years, Default Folder has helped speed Macintosh users through the process of opening, saving, and managing files.
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Backpack Preview #4 (the last preview): The Backpack Manifesto
Your information is everywhere. Scattered across notebooks, emails, post-it notes, and god knows where else. With Backpack, there’s a better way. Now Information is easy to organize, centralize, and retrieve. Information works for you instead of vice ve
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Signal vs. Noise: "A "bud vase feature" is functionality outside the core purpose of a product that evokes emotion about the product, and allows the user to express their personality or character in their use of the product."
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Quicksilver: From A Better OS X To Even More
Dan Dickinson: "This is an intermediate Quicksilver tutorial, to help people who went through my first tutorial and are looking for a little more in-depth information about how to tweak Quicksilver."
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O'Reilly Radar: An "inventory the veritable cornucopia of web-based applications on which I run my day."
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The application serves up a scrumptious mix of maintenance tools and interface tweaks, all accessible via a comprehensive graphical interface and toolset.
MarsEdit is a weblog editor for Mac OS X that makes weblog writing like writing emailâ€â€with spell-checking, drafts, multiple windows, and even AppleScript support.
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ecto is a feature-rich desktop blogging client for MacOSX and Windows, supporting a wide range of weblog systems, such as Blogger, Blojsom, Drupal, MovableType, Nucleus, TypePad, WordPress, and more.
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Backpack Preview #3: Web 1.0 calling Web 2.0 - Signal vs. Noise (by 37signals)
Signal vs. Noise: "Backpack takes a fresh look at email. However, instead of just sending email to someone else’s email address, Backpack will receive an email and turn it into something useful on the web."
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Quicksilver Changes Everything
Another Quicksilver tutorial
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Fugu is a graphical frontend to the commandline Secure File Transfer application (SFTP).
An OS X keyboard shortcut reference
macosxhints: "Quick reference guide (PDF, OpenOffice doc) for those magic keystrokes you find out about in bits and pieces here and there."
Lots of little pieces of software to make OS X work better
QuickSilver - A Better OS X In Just 10 Minutes
A QuickSilver tutorial
"Sidenote is a MacOS X application that tries to catch the “Stickies� spirit but in the form of a multi-document drawer that will hide in the corner of your screen (left or right). You can use it to take all your daily notes, include images and easily
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Will the Next Version of Windows Be Worth the Wait?
NYTimes: "Michael Cherry, a senior analyst at Directions on Microsoft, a consulting firm based in Kirkland, Wash., observes that many PC users now treat their computers like TV sets. "Unless the TV doesn't turn on," he says, "they won't replace them.""
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Running your company on web apps
evhead: "One interesting thing about starting a company today versus a few years ago: Lots of cool web apps are now available that you can more or less run you company on."
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The File Manager Is Dead. Long Live the Lifeblog
O'Reilly: "Convergence of digital media devices has been a rocky and troublesome path over the last decade or so, but signs are that everything is converging into a phone-shaped object that is permanently and wirelessly networked."
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MusicPublisher is an utility to share your iPod, or any similar music device, and make them directly available to iTunes.
Software for Visualizing and Managing Information
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Why's (Poignant) Guide to Ruby
"This is just a small Ruby book. It won’t crush you. It’s light as a feather (because I haven’t finished it yetâ€â€hehe). And there’s a reason this book will stay light: because Ruby is simple to learn."
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Google Desktop Search: Download Plug-ins
Welcome to the Google Desktop Search Plug-in Download page. Google has not tested or verified the features or security of the third party software listed on this site.
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Must have Mac OS X applications
A list of 20-some-odd free must have OS X applications
Guardian: Tom Coates is a BBC web producer and is behind www.Plasticbag.org, which just won Best British Weblog award at the SXSW Festival
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To-Do List: Shop, Pay Bills, Organize Brain
Using mind mapping software to help you get things done
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Learning a Language in the Digital Age
Some good tips on learning a new language
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Good-bye, computer; hello, world!
CNET: "Now think about what would happen if you had a word processor . . . a music jukebox, and any other "software application" running inside a Web framework that's as fast and responsive as any desktop you've ever used."
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OSX inventories, tips & hack collections
43 Folders: "A one-stop-shopping link for people who want to quickly ramp-up on “what’s out there� in the OSX world that they might not know about, with a focus on how one given person has put it all together."
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Essential Mac OS X Applications
MacUpdate watches the latest Macintosh software updates every day, all day long, so you can keep your software up-to-date with the most current bug fixes and features.
An evolving framework for accessing and
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DVD Jon: buy DRM-less tracks from Apple iTunes | The Register
PyMusique allows DRM-less downloads and ability to download tracks from iTunes again
A semi-satirical look at annotation software and blogging
The long tail of software. Millions of Markets of Dozens.
Bnoopy: "Said another way, there is a long tail of very custom process problems that software is supposed to help businesses solve."
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Turns your iPod into a portable hard drive (for Mac OS X)
Weblog Authoring Tools Market Share
A great summary of what's going on in the world of blog authoring tools
Some very cool programs on this list
How new software may help us think more effectively
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How two guys snuck into Apple to create software they believed in
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FreeMind is a premier free mind-mapping software written in Java
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Towards tag-based bookmark management in web browsers?
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My Favourite FireFox Keystrokes
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All the info straight from Six Apart on upgrading to Movable Type 3.1
What's Wrong With: Feed Readers
Cocoal.icio.us: A Cocoa del.icio.us Client for Mac OS X
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10 features for a perfect browser
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In search of a browser that banishes clutter
People are moving away from internet explorer
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mybackend.com - dynamic database driven websites for free
Survey software
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Mindjet: Software for Brainstorming and Planning
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Early adopters are not using IE
BBC NEWS | Technology | Rivals nibble at Microsoft's IE
Wired: Building a better Mozilla
Setting up your first Movable Type blog