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

• Metricly – Aggregated Dashboards for Every Business – more dashboard saas options
• Mac OS X Finder Toolbar Scripts for Textmate, Terminal, and Touch. – Manas Tungare – A few finder toolbar scripts
• Doppler for Heroku – Cloud Management on the Go – heroku management app for iphone and ipad
• 7 kick ass web apps to rock your conversion rate. – more ways to get feedback on your app
• Introducing Errbit – a hoptoad notifier "catcher". lets you install errbit behind a firewall, change hoptoad initializer to throw exceptions to it, and you're good to go.
• Summit Consulting Group – Million Dollar Consulting (TM) Hot Tips – reasons to convince the client that value-based pricing is the way to go
• Four Realities of Value-Based Pricing – The Guerrilla Consultant – Four ideas to help understand value-based pricing
• Why You Should Use Value Based Fees « The ERP Lifestyle Consultant – Some video clips on Value Based Fees with Alan Weiss and an accountant that's seen the light

Interesting tidbits from around the web (August 11th):

• Cloudkick | Cloud monitoring and management tools – cloud monitoring and management saas
• Setting up a Hudson Continuous Integration Testing Server for Ruby(and Rails) | Tommy Chheng – quick walk through on setting up hudson ci server for rails
• AdGrok | Search engine marketing for the masses. – guided search engine marketing as a service
• How persuasive is your website’s copy? A simple, five-step checklist | Design Shack – some ideas on making your site copy more persuasive
• The Zero Dollar, 5 Minutes Market Research – Marc-André Cournoyer’s blog – quick tip for finding new business ideas

Interesting tidbits from around the web (August 3rd):

• WCCC Production Systems Status Board | Inside the Mind of Sators – More dashboard inspiration
• Jonathan Oxer: Building a Status Screen, part 3: Display – Blog – Jon has a whole series on building a panic inspired dashboard
• Ecommerce Dashboard on TV | Flickr – Photo Sharing! – another dashboard example, going to have to put my own together rsn.
• Arrivals | Development Status | Cultured Code – One of the status boards that started it all

Finished editing Episode 11 of BDDCasts today (but it won’t go out until Monday). It feels like the rendering time of ScreenFlow 2 has gotten worse than ScreenFlow 1.5.x. I haven’t done any times, but it feels several times slower.

Interesting tidbits from around the web

• Verizon FiOS Backup – Unlimited computers in your house, one subscription, 50G for $7/mo, I’m seriously thinking about dropping Carbonite and Mozy.
• Coda Stuff – I might be one of the few people on a Mac that is pretty meh on the whole Coda thing. I have TextMate, vim and the only other thing I want is SubEthaEdit type collaboration in TextMate. I know it’s fixed by TextMate 2. Anyhoo, this is a big list of Coda plugins and such.
• Google Closure – probably the good news out of the google camp today was the releasing of some tools for JavaScript.
• Dashboard – is the other bit of news from google, it’s pretty scary when you see it all in one place how much google owns of mine.
• A few UI best practices – 6, exactly. Easily identifiable links might be the only one that gets some friction. Blue and underlined?
• 13 Mac Apps – I’m a sucker for these, especially ones that could be really useful. Of the ones I don’t have but still look useful are SuperDocker and iStat pro which might be information overkill.
• Time Machine Editor – hack away at your Time Machine settings and scheduling.
• Video Monkey – The heir apparent to the insanely awesome and retired Visual Hub. I pulled down 0.5 and it’s not as easy as Visual Hub, I’ll keep my eye on it though.
• 50 Common Mac Problems Solved – I’m linking to the printer friendly version because the original was 5 clicks through. A pretty decent list, worth a bookmark and a read.
• 10 Free Server & Network Monitoring Tools that Kick Ass – ’nuff said.