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Interesting tidbits from around the web (September 8th):

• 10 Ways to Create a Better About Page for Your Blog – Making your about pages more useful
• iPhone App Dev Online Conference, brought to you by Think Vitamin – Think Vitamin is putting on a one day, online, iPhone Developer conference.
• State of the Art – Presenting the MiFi of Your Dreams – NYTimes.com – Third, the service price for this no-commitment, unlimited, portable hot spot is — are you sitting down? — $40 a month.<br />
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  via nytimes.com Wow. Who want's to buy my Verizon MiFi and take o …
• Ruby Summer of Code Wrap Up – Ninjas on a Penny Farthing – The final thing I worked on (and that is mostly complete, but still has a few bugs)<br />
  was an Ubuntu-based Virtual Appliance that makes it super simple for any user to get started<br />
  with rvm and h …
• One day sale made my paid app free, now I cannot revert! – Android Developers | Google Groups – Nothing — once free, always free. You can publish a new app, in a new package, that has a price.<br />
  <br />
  via groups.google.com Wow, sucks not to know this ahead of time. If you're an Android …
• Rails 3 in a Nutshell – rails3 in a nutshell in O'Reilly's "open feedback" publishing system.
• Sending or receiving email with Rails? Easy | Lead Thinking – Another "receive email from rails" solution. this one involving google app engine and remail-engine which costs ($0.0001/recipient w/ 2000 free).
• Receiving Incoming Email in Rails 3 – choosing the right approach « Steve @ DynamicEdge – A rundown of some options for receiving email in your Rails 3 app
• Cocoia Blog » iPhone 4 icon PSD file – PSD file for iPhone, iPad and the rest of the iOS suite, whatever that turns out to be.
• All the sizes of iOS app icons – Neven Mrgan’s tumbl – visual guide to iOS icons
• 12 Common CSS Mistakes Web Developers Make – css tips for web developers
• Design Optimization: Webbynode’s Front Page +45% conversion rates. | Vospe – via vospe.com Walkthrough of how Webbynode redesigned their front page to get a big boost in conversions. …
• GitMac – Git on a Mac, Made Easy – Another git gui client for mac, pretty but not sure what it brings that I'm not already getting with gitx
• MacUpdate September 2010 Bundle – 12 Great Apps for $49.99 – via mupromo.com Another MacUpdate bundle is out, 12 apps for $50. Looks like a no-brainer if you want Toast 10 Titanium (pays for itself and then some). Other good looking apps (to m …

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 (July 26th):

• Flutie – GIANT ROBOTS SMASHING INTO OTHER GIANT ROBOTS – consistent, sane style for new projects from Thoughtbot implemented as a rails 3 engine and released as a gem.
• 101 Books That Hook Kids On Reading | Online Universities – a list of books to get kids hooked on reading, hopefully we're being good examples and reinforcing the habit
• Rails 3.0: Release candidate – loads of fixes since beta 4, rails 3 is on the way, soon

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 (June 17th):

• 7 Amazing Presentation Slides to Teach you How to Code with jQuery | web enavu – need to spend some time here
• Bootstrapped, Profitable, & Proud: WooThemes – (37signals) – The next in the series.

Interesting tidbits from around the web (June 8th):

• Rogue Amoeba | Freebies: Free Software for Mac OS X – sound source is worth it here, lets you switch audio sources (input and output). really handy for going from line out to mic. thanks to @joebeninghove for the tip
• Anti-Social – Mac/OS X Social Networking Block Software – block access to know time sinks
• About Pages: Good, Bad, and Missing | UX Booth – answer the questions you learned in grade school, who what when where why (how I guess, if you want to)
• BohConf: The Best Ruby Conference Ever – The Majestic Sea Creature – ugh. replacing the valve body in my milan or I'd be commuting for this.
• Reducing the load on a small VPS by 80% in 5 minutes | TurnKey Linux Blog – rationale and tips for reducing prefork tasks/workers
• 11 UI Kits for iPhone and iPad Development | Freebies – psd's and such for iPhone and iPad
• Notion Ink Adam delayed until this November | BestTabletReview.com – Dammit the Adam may be dead. iPad is looking better and better.

Interesting tidbits from around the web (May 20th through May 24th):

• cjohansen’s twibot at master – GitHub – Simple framework for creating Twitter bots, inspired by Sinatra
• jbarnette’s isolate at master – GitHub – Gem segregation.
• Alan deLevie – Feature Flippers with Rails – lets a site admin deploy/rollback features from a simple dashboard with a single click
• 50+ Online Generators for Designers and Web Developers – W3Mag –
• Riding Rails: Ruby on Rails 2.3.7 Released – a couple of bug fixes for rails_xss
• Make Your Own Bookmarklets With jQuery – Smashing Magazine –
• Store | Konigi – The 5 1/4" floppy sketch book looks pretty cool.
• Soovle – Let the web help. –
• 2379 Free Web Design Icons | IconsPedia – maybe you can have too many icons
• 5 Basic Usability Breakdowns You Want to Avoid :: Echo Enduring Blog –
• Small Business SEO – 7 Essential Tips for Success – Online Marketing Blog –
• habitforge – Forge new habits. Change your life! –
• 6 Quick Tips to Search Twitter Like an Expert –
• Ingestible Surgical Robots—Hard To Swallow Concept? | Singularity Hub – No, it’s not a LEGO space station. This is ARES, the self-assembling robot you may someday have to swallow.
• schacon’s showoff at master – GitHub – the best damn presentation software a developer could ever love