Welcome to my second annual year in review post. January – Scott and I attend MacWorld and are madly trying to get FeedLounge ready for launch. I finish my digital photo frame and run into the first of what will be several hardware issues in ’06. February – Tasks Pro™ 1.6 and Tasks 2.7 are…
December, 2006
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Mac Geekery – The Pain of a Password-Protected Screen Saver – I need to try this work-around. A Super iPod Christmas? – It was down for me in the morning (didn’t try in the afternoon). BBEdit Talk: Placeholders in Clippings – I should learn more about this at some point. Ajaxian – Ajax File uploads…
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If you get an Amazon gift certificate, you can choose to add it to your account immediately (like a credit), even if you aren’t buying anything. This seriously reduces the chance to lose it or forget to use it. 🙂
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Somehow the creation of the Share This/Share Icon forums seems to have corrupted a table in the forum database. Luckily, I’m backing up my database archives to S3. Connect to S3 via JungleDisk on my laptop Grab the backup Verify the table is ok Restore the corrupted table That was much easier than trying to…
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Bummer that this post is so necessary, on so many fronts.
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I’m only aware of 3 Flickr upload tools for the Mac: Flickr Uploadr JUploadr 1001 I’m trying to upload ~18GB of photos. Flickr Uploadr will only accept single groups of files for upload, not folders of files. Same with 1001. This is a problem. JUploadr will accept folders, but keeps crashing. All of these apps…
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Lars ported Share This over to Expression Engine, excellent!
This post is part of the project: ShareThis. View the project timeline for more context on this post.
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I started reading a lot more, reading people more than blogs. I started looking for that person behind the article, usually written in the small font.
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I’m getting e-mails (and comments) from people asking where they can get a copy of Share This (my social web/e-mail plugin for WordPress) for: Moveable Type (and TypePad) Drupal Blogger LiveJournal Firefox Extension Safari Extension Greasemonkey scripts for inclusion in web-based apps like Bloglines, Google Reader, etc. Add more in the comments… I haven’t built…
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Back in 2003, I postulated that micropayments might be a better monetization strategy for free/open source software than traditional donationware . In particular, I liked the idea of asking for $1 per download. I’m certainly not going to put up a paywall barrier to the stuff I make available here, but I thought it would…
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It looks like my Share This plugin is catching on with WordPress users. On Dec 12th, there weren’t any pages that showed up on a search for “powered by share this”1, now there are nearly 200,000240,000. That’s a pretty good initial adoption of Share This. I think it might be time for step 2. 🙂…
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Since my hard drive issues, and the resulting nightmare with Reynolds Data Recovery1, I’ve done quite a bit to make sure I’ve got proper backup systems in place. My desktop machine is using a RAID 1 configuration, and is backed up nightly to an external drive using SuperDuper. The critical data on my web server…
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I’m on semi-vacation this week with my folks in town. Hope your holidays are going well.
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WP-SmugMug – nice looking plugin from Adam. Robert Accettura: Thunderbird 2.0 Beta 1 Adam Tow: Yul Wins Survivor!, Eric Cheng: Survivor! LinkedIn Hits a Tipping Point: Annoying distraction turns essential business tool Ookles To Launch in Early 2007 – I was wondering what happened to Scott and Ookles. He went completely dark. Extending Your Application…
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Erik is challenging me to give Safari another chance, I’m going to take him up on it. I’m setting Safari as my default browser1 for the rest of the year, and I’ll try to keep some notes on the experience. I’ve actually never used Safari for long as my main browser before. [back]