Category: Web/Tech

Every few weeks I link to another shareware product here, and I only recommend software I’ve actually used. This time, I’m recommending ClipMate – and it’s one I should’ve mentioned before, because it’s so useful.

ClipMate turns the limited one-item-at-a-time Windows clipboard into a powerful tool for keyboard freaks like myself who constantly type the same thing over and over again. It’s also great while writing code, since I can copy dozens of snippets to the clipboard and retain them for later re-use. Read more about ClipMate, or skip all that and download it now. When you’re ready to purchase ClipMate, treat yourself to a special $5.00 discount by using the coupon code below before October 31:

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BTW, the last time I saw ClipMate developer Chris Thornton was at this year’s Shareware Industry Conference, and he was wearing a sumo suit. Just thought I’d mention that :)

While at Gnomedex I had the fortune of being on The Gillmor Gang along with Steve Gillmor, Dan Gillmor, Chris Pirillo, Jason Calacanis and Robert Scoble.

I know I learned a lot by listening to my co-panelists, so I hope you’ll listen to the show when you get a chance.

That’s right, I bought a Mac. A cheap iBook, to be exact. I’m not planning to write software for the Mac, but I do want to keep up with the goings-on in the Mac world, and I could also learn a lot from the Mac UI. See, there’s one thing that Apple consistently gets right that Microsoft consistently gets wrong: style.

After working with OS-X for a few hours, switching back to Windows is like partying with Charlize Theron then coming home to Kathy Bates. Sure, Kathy Bates is exceptionally talented, but sometimes a little glamour is exciting.

D. Keith Robinson shares his guidelines for linking.

Ben Hammersley built a tool which creates an RSS feed from the W3C’s XHTML validation results. Nice work, Ben!

Amazon’s A9.com search gets high marks in this Business 2.0 article by John Batelle. I played with A9 this morning, and it’s certainly impressive. I do wonder, though, how Amazon plans to blend their advertisements into A9’s search results without tainting them. (via Om Malik)

Interesting report on Eyetrack III research, which tested participants’ eye movements while viewing several news homepage designs (via Dan Gillmor).

Dave Shea is building a list of resources for those new to web standards (via WebStandards.org)

The Firefox 1.0 Preview Release is available. Download it here, and read the release notes here.

Slashdot discusses how piracy is hurting shareware authors. The discussion links to an article from a Mac shareware author who fears that piracy will force him to shut down his business, and it mentions another developer who resorted to having his software delete the user’s home directory when it detected a hacked serial number.