January 2012
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December 2011
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Dec 6th
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November 2011
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The website for Fantastical, a smart menu bar calendar utility for the Mac, uses some clever animation to draw your attention to its interface and features.
Nov 29th
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October 2011
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Oct 2nd
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September 2011
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Google Voice now offers automatic spam filtering →
From the Google Voice help document: If you get unwanted calls, you can choose to send the caller directly to voicemail, treat all calls from a particular number as spam, or block the caller.
Sep 20th
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August 2011
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July 2011
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Jul 29th
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Jul 20th
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Jul 19th
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June 2011
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Jun 30th
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The Reeder for Mac site leverages some impressive HTML animation tricks. Update: Thanks to Brett Taylor for this one: just like on a Mac, you can Shift-click to experience the animation transitions at roughly half speed.
Jun 15th
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May 2011
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March 2011
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Mar 17th
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⌘⇧D sends mail in the MobileMe mail web app just as it does in Mail.app in Mac OS.
Mar 3rd
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Mar 1st
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January 2011
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Tweet Nest - archive your Twitter account →
A self-hosted web app, similar to ThinkUp, that lets you archive, browse, and search your Twitter account. You’ll need your own web host, PHP 5.2, and MySQL 4.1. via Chris Bowler
Jan 12th
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When saving a bookmark to Pinboard, the feature-packed “anti-social” alternative to Delicious, you can use Markdown in the bookmark’s notes field. via Brett Terpstra
Jan 3rd
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November 2010
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Nov 28th
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Nov 10th
October 2010
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Quix - Your Bookmarklets, On Steroids →
It’s kind of like Quicksilver or LaunchBar, but in a bookmarklet for your browser. A system of commands lets you quickly search the page or various services, start a post in MarsEdit and link the current page, share the page on sites like Delicious, Twitter, and Facebook, perform HTML5 validation, clip a page to Evernote or LittleSnapper, subscribe to a site’s feed in Google Reader,...
Oct 5th
September 2010
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The Best Subtle Things About New Twitter -... →
Sep 15th
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August 2010
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July 2010
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MobileMe Mail's compose window is now... →
Like the unofficial Gmail bookmarklets, you can now bookmark the ‘compose new message’ window of MobileMe Mail. As long as you’re logged in, visiting the link above will create a new composition window with all the contact auto-complete and rich text editing tools you need. Strangely, while sending a message from this window seems to work, the window does not appear to display...
Jul 8th
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If you enjoy Finer Things in Web, might you have a moment to recommend us to Tumblr’s Tech Directory?
Jul 6th
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Jul 2nd
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Jul 1st
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March 2010
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A bookmarklet for using Google Reader Play on any... →
Mihai Parparita, a Google employee who works on Reader and other products, created a bookmarklet for using any RSS-enabled site in Play, a more visual way to explore feeds.
Mar 29th
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Mar 29th
February 2010
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YouTube displays video frames during upload
YouTube displays the actual frames of a video as an upload progresses. I doubt this works in every browser, though. via Delete Yourself
Feb 26th
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A Sublime HTML5 web video experience
If you’ve been waiting for an beautiful and functional web video experience that doesn’t involve Flash then the wait may finally be over.  The SublimeVideo HTML5 Video Player has nearly everything you want from an web-based video player; no browser plugin, custom style controls, full-screen mode (complete with sexy transitions) and fast video scrubbing.  It’s missing volume control but that’s...
Feb 2nd
January 2010
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Tumblr: Ask a question in your post, let people...
If you want to have a post on Tumblr in which people can post an “Answer,” the posting interface displays the option as long as you end the post with a question. Both existing Tumblr users and non-Tumblr users can answer in a form that appears on the post.
Jan 15th
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Jan 14th
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Google Wave: A keyboard shortcut to open multiple...
Google Wave, Google’s new communication and collaboration tool, allows you to open multiple waves (like conversations in Gmail or messages any email client) by holding the Command key (Control on Windows) when selecting subsequent waves. Unfortunately, it appears you can only open waves in the vertical space on the right, which means anything more than two, maybe three waves at most,...
Jan 8th
December 2009
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About
This is an example of a WordPress page, you could edit this to put information about yourself or your site so readers know where you are coming from. You can create as many pages like this one or sub-pages as you like and manage all of your content inside of WordPress.
Dec 30th
November 2009
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Lala.com music service has keyboard shortcuts
Lala, an online music library, streaming, and shopping service, offers keyboard shortcuts. It’s a beta feature you have to enable, but you have your choice between two different shortcut sets, and some even work in fullscreen mode, another beta feature.
Nov 13th
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Nike+ running site adds Get Satisfaction
Looks like Nike is using Get Satisfaction on the Nike+ site. I haven’t seen another company nearly this large using a web service like this. Previous “Get Satisfaction. Or Else…” altercations aside, this must be a pretty big win for Get Satisfaction and social media in general.
Nov 2nd
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Cute Profiles for WordPress adds a social media...
Cute Profiles doesn’t add a traditional widget to your WordPress sidebar or a simple list of your profiles to a page or post. Instead, it adds a buttonized list of your profile icons to the side of your site, outside your content and layout. It would probably be an annoying addition to many sites, but I bet this would be perfect for a personal profile or dashboard site that serves mostly to...
Nov 2nd
October 2009
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Official Gmail Blog: Got the wrong Bob?
Official Gmail Blog: Got the wrong Bob? A bizarrely named new Gmail Labs feature, “Got the wrong Bob?” is intended to save you from emailing the wrong people. If you typically add Jane Doe, Bill Smith, and John Doe to the same group message, Gmail will warn you the next time you accidentally add Bill Lumbergh instead of Bill Smith to one of these messages. Basically, it’s another new...
Oct 13th
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Gmail displays live previews of images dragged...
When composing a Gmail message in a separate window, you can drag images from most sites into the body to attach them to the message and see previews displayed in-line. On the Mac this works in Safari and I believe Firefox as well. Would any readers care to comment on this functionality in Windows? This is different from Gmail Labs features, such as “previews in mail” for sites like Picasa...
Oct 5th
September 2009
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A blue dot for new mentions in Brizzly. Are you...
A blue dot for new mentions in Brizzly. Are you listening Twitter?
Sep 29th
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Share stories from Fever with alternative services...
Fever, a unique self-hosted RSS reader from Shaun Inman, has an article sharing system based on URL schemes and offers simple preferences for changing them. In the screenshot above I’ve altered my Fever’s Twitter sharing URL so that it calls Tweetie, a desktop Twitter client for the Mac.
Sep 28th
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When it comes to valuation, making money is a real...
When it comes to valuation, making money is a real obstacle. Our profitability has been a real drag on our valuation. PRESS RELEASE: 37SIGNALS VALUATION TOPS $100 BILLION AFTER BOLD VC INVESTMENT, Jason Fried This announcement is a veritable gold mine of fundamental truths about building a web company. You might as well copy and paste the entire thing into a motivational, embeddable widget that...
Sep 24th
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Scroll in and out of maps faster
Perhaps I use my iPhone to get directions far too often now, but I forgot this simple trick existed: In most of the maps services from the likes of Google, Yahoo, and Bing (though, unsurprisingly, not Mapquest), you can use your mouse’s scroll wheel to quickly zoom in and out of a map.
Sep 24th
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Keep tags tidy on your crowd-sourced Tumblr blog
If you’re using Tumblr’s submission feature to run a crowd-sourced blog, you can add optional tags that appear in the submission form for visitors. This is a great way encourage submitters to help organize their posts and make them more visible across your site and the Tumblr community.
Sep 22nd
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Adding Tumblr Sharing to Fever
Adding Tumblr Sharing to Fever Christopher White: I saw Nicholas Penree’s post Adding Digg Sharing to Fever earlier and I hadn’t realized just how easy it was to add sharing options to Fever. He breaks down some basics for adding sharing features for Tumblr—or, really, any service—to Fever, Shaun Inman’s self-hosted news reader.
Sep 21st