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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 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 22nd):

• Modules – node – GitHub – possibly the defacto list for node.js modules
• Inkling – Interactive textbooks for iPad. – interactive textbooks on the ipad. doesn't look like an ipad-ish skim.app clone, would be nice to see a list of books coming to the platform though
• Naming Force® – make a name for yourself – creative business names – crowdsourced naming contests – crowdsource your business name or service/product name too, I guess
• Periodic Table of the Elements – Josh Duck – html5 elements in a periodic table

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 (August 20th):

• Doing the Little Things to Please Clients | FreelanceFolder – the little things you can do to please clients, and stand out from the rest
• visionmedia’s git-extras at master – GitHub – GIT utilities — repo summary, commit counting, repl, changelog population and more
• github’s gollum at master – GitHub – github's making their git based wiki available
• 5 Site Metrics Every Small Business Should Track : Technology :: American Express OPEN Forum – 5 metrics I should be tracking with google analytics.
• My friend the Rails console – Part II « Silence is Foo – more fun with the rails console
• 36 Things You Can Get Your Virtual Assistants To Do For You To Make Your Life Easier. | JoelsNews.com – another list of things you can get your VA to do
• Using a Client Welcome Packet to Get Off on the Right Foot – also heard of this as client on-boarding, this post even has a list of things you might want to include
• ku’s CreateLink at master – GitHub – chrome alternative to https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2617/
• fortuity’s rails3-subdomain-devise at master – GitHub – An example Rails 3 app with subdomains and authentication (using Devise). With a tutorial.
• Skinny daemons | Head Labs – daemonized ruby process inside thin webserver
• Integration Testing Resque with Cucumber –
• Why aren’t you using git-flow? – Jeff Kreeftmeijer – git-flow. new to me.
• Just What Developers Need to Know | Use The Index, Luke! – Database performance for developers
• Email Sucks. 5 Time Saving Tips. – picked up on lifehacker, there's an interesting way to cull unknown yet still important email from the rest (email bankruptcy)
• Thinking in jQuery id-itis – first comes div-itis then comes id-itis? how to tame id-itis…
• 10 Common Mistakes Made by API Providers – ReadWriteCloud – interesting list of mistakes for API providers to watch out for
• Why Social Media Monitoring Tools Are About to Get Smarter – Mashable's take on what's next from social media monitoring tools
• Styling Buttons and Toolbars with the jQuery UI CSS Framework | Filament Group, Inc., Boston, MA – Button and toolbar styling with jQuery UI CSS Framework.

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 10th):

• HTML5 Reset – A simple set of best practices to get your HTML5 project off on the right foot.
• 5 Tips For Writing Bullet Points That Sell – bullet point strategies
• HTML5 Boilerplate – A rock-solid default for HTML5 awesome. – HTML5 Boilerplate is the professional badass's base HTML/CSS/JS template for a fast, robust and future-proof site. (so they say anyway)
• Find a freelancer | Get a freelancer | Quality freelance marketplace | Simple outsourcing – Task Army – Crowdsourcing tasks for your business, capped at $99

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

• The Effective Marketing Plan, Part II: Target Market Analysis | The Netsetter – part 2 in the Effective Marketing Plan series
• Google Apps OpenID with Rails and Devise – casperfabricius.com – extending devise to allow google apps accounts to log in to your rails app
• Community Supported Agriculture – LocalHarvest – might be too late to get started with a CSA near me this year, but I'll definitely check out later harvests/next year.
• The Effective Marketing Plan, Part I: Your Marketing Plan Outline | The Netsetter – part 1 in a series on creating a marketing plan
• PHP, Javascript, ASP.NET and Java – CodeCanyon – css and code snippets, sister site to themeforest.net

Interesting tidbits from around the web (July 31st):

• Step by Step Instructions – moonshine – GitHub – directions to get a rails app up and running with moonshine.
• What To Do When You Launch: Before, During, and After – Launch cycles – we hit the cycle mid-stream with BrandPulse (http://getbrandpulse.com) but we're making the most of it.
• ZNC – some discussion about irc on HN brought about this, an irc bouncer to keep you connected when you're not connected.
• Continuous Delivery is Now Out – the book on continuous delivery, in Martin Fowler's signature series, is out. it's on my reading list.
• jQuery 1.4.2 Visual Cheat Sheet – woorkup.com – jquery cheatsheet for 1.4.2 that's very easy on the eyes.

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.