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Interesting tidbits from around the web (August 26th):

• The Three Key Elements of Irresistible Email Subject Lines | Copyblogger – how to craft an email subject line to get your audience to open it
• Mac indie dev asks The Pirate Bay to keep a torrent of his software – Crazy mac dev wants his cracked software torrent kept on pirate bay to make fun of crackers inability, and because he wants people to see the true beauty of his software (and even asks for a true crack).
• YouTube – The William – Never thought I'd bookmark a stove, but this is damn cool.
• Keynote Wireframe Toolkit – Get your Keynote Kung-Fu on – Cool wiring framing stencils for keynote, $12. Damn can this site sell a product or what? Slide share slides are awesome.
• Hanchor LLC | Introducing iOS Beta Builder – small mac app to help with beta deployment of iOS apps
• Keyword Questions – Keyword Research Tool – find out what questions people are asking based on keyword searches

Interesting tidbits from around the web (August 21st):

• iPhone SDK Examples – iPhone SDK Example Code
• Twitter Streaming API + node.js + Appcelerator Titanium = Real-time tweet map – the appcelerator firehose (twitter streaming & node.js)
• Installing App Files with Appcelerator Titanium – persistence solutions with appcelerator titanium
• Making a combo-box in Titanium Appcelerator – code and video | cssgallery.info –
• Custom row for TableView in Appcelerator Titanium | cssgallery.info –
• Seven days with Titanium – day 2 – tables and pickers | cssgallery.info – titanium tables and pickers
• Seven days with Titanium – day 1 – windows, views, navigation and tabs | cssgallery.info – a look at titanium appcelerator's windows, views, navigation and tabs
• Appcelerator View RSS Feed | Two App Guys – quick rss reader tutorial using appcelerator titanium
• Devise 1.1 is out and ready to rock with Rails 3 | Plataforma Tecnologia Blog – why devise 1.1 will rock your rails 3 auths
• Yes, but who said they’d actually BUY the damn thing? – If you can't find ten people who say they'll buy it, your company is bullshit.
• Techneur – The Startup Idea Filter – idea a.d.d.
• CoffeeScript – javascript generator
• Underscore.js – Underscore is a utility-belt library for JavaScript that provides a lot of the functional programming support that you would expect in Prototype.js (or Ruby), but without extending any of the built-in JavaScript objects. It's the tie to go along with jQuery's tux.
• Where Do You Find Your Clients? – freelance switch poll asking you where you find your clients. tl;dr => word of mouth is the lion's share answer

Interesting tidbits from around the web (July 28th):

• Apple – Safari – Safari Extensions Gallery – the official safari extensions gallery.
• Try it before you buy it. What could be better? – Flatsourcing – This is crazy enough to try
• Titanous : Mailman Released! – another ruby summer of code project released, this one handles incoming email with "route" based matching on criteria.

Interesting tidbits from around the web (July 19th):

• Hyperbolic Software – Tidy Up! – The mac housecleaning app I was looking for.
• Pivoting (for those who don’t know what/why) – Pivot explained, for the lean startup fringe. Pretty much what you would think it is, with examples.
• Abandoned open source projects – Jeff Kreeftmeijer – @jkreeftmeijer makes some interesting points and a suggestion on how to deal with abandoned oss projects. It's particularly interesting from within the ruby community. Not only would it be nice to see "abandoned" become a tag/flag for github but "authoritative" as well so we know which of the 200 forks of AuthLogic we should be using.
• How To Sell | VentureFizz – 5 simple tips on how to sell.
• Our Reddit Ad By The Numbers – Whiteyboard — tinyComb – Whiteyboard did a debrief on their reddit ad experience.
• My Duck Duck Go reddit ad by the numbers – Gabriel Weinberg’s Blog – Gabriel breaks down his reddit ad for duck duck go.
• BookLiberator Lets You Make E-Books Cheaply (And Is Definitely Not Intended For Copyright Violation!) « The Firewall – Forbes.com – A $320 device can quickly turn books into digital files. Will that cause headaches for publishers? Better yet, who's going to do that for a 500+ page book?
• 15 High Quality Mini Icon Sets for Your Web Projects – a bunch more icons for web projects.
• Android Tablets: What We Know – still not much news from the android tablet camp, notion ink adam is still decidedly absent. I went ahead and picked up an iPad wifi (I have mifi so meh on 3G). Android and Apple can fight it out when I'm contemplating the v2 upgrade.
• Find your hidden puts statement when testing – interesting trick to get rid of debug by pretty_print
• Opening the Rackspace Cloud // Slicehost – VPS Hosting – RackSpace is opening up their cloud infrastructure and letting people actually have a say with words or code on new features, etc.

Interesting tidbits from around the web (July 12th):

• Design for iPad – loads of resources for design on the ipad
• Happy customers through an improved checkout « Boagworld – Lots of suggestions on how to make your checkout forms better for the user
• bgetting’s hominid at master – GitHub – want to bake this into BrandPulse (http://getbrandpulse) so I can set up drip campaigns for trial users so they get the most out of the 30 day free trial
• The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development – the "cheat sheet to the 4 steps to the ephiphany"
• ariejan’s firefly at master – GitHub – FireFly is a simple URL shortner for personal use.
• Grasscove – Another remote log viewer for osx.

Interesting tidbits from around the web (July 9th):

• How-To: Combining Hazel and Dropbox to Automate File Management – I've implemented a bit of this, got bitten by having all my screencasts (bddcasts productions that is) re-organized for me. I'm sure I could be getting more use out of it though.
• Code as Craft » Batch Processing Millions and Millions of Images – Resizing 135 Million images, sounds like an interesting problem to solve. Write up suggests is better to think before type…
• BrandPulse | Don’t miss the conversation – Find out what people are saying about your brand online with BrandPulse, our newest product.
• Ad Hoc Helper for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad on the iTunes App Store – tool to find udid on iphone so you can do adhoc distribution
• iPhone Developer Provisioning Portal Tips | Scott Gruby’s Blog – some tips to deal with app store and adhoc iphone app distribution

Interesting tidbits from around the web (July 5th):

• 99 Icon Sets To Use In Commercial Design Projects | Creative Nerds – Free icons you can use in commercial projects
• Fake – Mac OS X Web Browser Automation and Webapp Testing Made Simple. – Safari plus Automator to create frankenstien web tests or browser automation
• Git Fake Submodules » Debuggable Ltd – A work around for people who like submodules in theory, but not practice.
• The Life Of A Radar » Blog Archive » uninitialized constant RSpec with Cucumber – tip for running cucumber and rspec 1 and 2 concurrently
• adamwiggins’s clockwork at master – GitHub – A scheduler process to replace cron.
• PADILICIOUS – How to make books for the iPad and ibook store

Interesting tidbits from around the web (June 27th):

• Sodeso – tips for getting more familiar with xcode
• IR_Black in XCode – ir_black for xcode<br />
  mkdir -p ~/Library/Application\ Support/Xcode/Color\ Themes/<br />
  cp IR_black.xccolortheme there
• My First Week In The App Store | Swarm SG – looks like some folks are still getting Titanium Apps into the App Store.
• beheadedmyway’s gity at master – GitHub – Pretty nice looking and featureful os x git client. Open source too.
• AppsAmuck iPhone Development Tutorials and Examples – 31 simple example iphone apps to demonstrate concepts.
• Cocoa Source Code » Matt Legend Gemmell – Matt share's a bunch of code and widgets for xcode/cocoa
• facebook’s three20 at master – GitHub – Three20 is an Objective-C library for iPhone developers
• Avoiding iPhone App Rejection From Apple, Part 2 – second part of the list to avoid app rejection, this one from the community.
• Avoiding iPhone App Rejection From Apple – a list of things to watch for if you want to lower your chances of having your iphone app rejected by Apple
• The Ultimate Toolbox for iPhone Development | Webdesigner Depot – giant list of resources for iphone development
• Alloy Code – Automatic Color Coding for script/console and irb – get some nice coloring in irb using awesome_print

Interesting tidbits from around the web (June 24th):

• How Zynga Uses Minimum Viable Products & Ghetto Testing | Grattisfaction – Mark Pincus talks about how Zynga uses minimum viable products to test demand so they don't waste time. Need to listen to the podcast.
• The Anatomy of an Effective Product Sales Page | Josh Klein’s Blog – an interesting dissection of the sales page for the 4HWW
• The Social Internet Survey Software & Online Survey Tool – They have the respondents, you provide the survey and get feedback.
• Lessons Learned: Using AdWords to assess demand for your new online service, step-by-step – more ways to determine if you have a market for a viable product
• How to test the viability of your online business idea | Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli – a run through of testing your product before it exists as described in 4HWW.
• Phusion Passenger 2.2.15 released – Phusion Corporate Blog – another release of passenger
• 20 Nao Robots Perform Awesome 8 Minute Dance Routine at Shanghai Expo (video) | Singularity Hub – No small feat. First 90 seconds aren't as interesting because it's all identical movements. Then the video starts getting into some individual movements and it's pretty amazing.
• Shapado – questions & answers – the site for the stack overflow clone, hosted, with plans.
• FAQ Pages: Best Practices and Examples – Noupe – sooner or later everything gets a FAQ
• Sencha – Sencha Touch Overview – HTML5 Mobile App Framework – Sencha Touch, an HTML5 mobile app framework for developing web apps with native look-and-feel on Apple iOS and Google Android touchscreen devices.
• Mac Media Center – Setup any Mac as a Media Center Easily – OS X Daily – another reason to try to find a refurb or used mini.
• Create Your Own Programming Language – @edavis10 mentioned this book, so I'm keeping track of it.
• meskyanichi’s deployer at master – GitHub – Deployer is gem that enhances Capistrano to simplify the deployment of Ruby on Rails applications. Surprised there aren't more like this.

Interesting tidbits from around the web (June 20th):

• AppleInsider | Print: Inside Apple’s new Xcode 4 development tool – some more looks into XCode 4 Development Tool.
• igrigorik’s async-rails at master – GitHub – async Rails 3 stack demo
• Rake Tasks 101 | Code Quietly – Nice run down on getting started with rake.
• Installing Rails 3 (beta 4) Using RVM — eddorre – includes tips on getting rspec running too