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Get a $30 CSS book for free

Wednesday, November 19, 2008 17:32 No Comments

For the next 14 days, you can download The Art & Science Of CSS (a $29.95 value) for free.
There are two ways to get it:
- follow @sitepointdotcom on Twitter
- visit twitaway.com
Here’s an excerpt from the email I just received from SitePoint.com:
Freebies like this are few and far between, so help us spread the word. Tell [...]

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ProQuo

Wednesday, October 1, 2008 16:53 No Comments

We get our furniture and other household goods from Hawaii this Friday. All of our stuff will finally join us here in Maryland…and I will soon once again be able to sit at a proper desk in a proper chair to update this site.
Now that we have a new mailing address, I decided to [...]

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MacRabbit Espresso

Thursday, September 18, 2008 16:43 No Comments

Grab a cup of coffee. We already have Bean, the excellent and free rich text editor. Soon, we will have Espresso from MacRabbit, creator of the best-in-class CSS editor, CSSEdit.
Reading through the features, it looks like Espresso will be a hybrid application that combines many of the coding-friendly features of BBEdit or TextMate with [...]

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N: the way of the ninja

Saturday, June 14, 2008 20:23 1 Comment

I accidentally discovered a great Mac-compatible game today, and ended up losing a whole afternoon of productivity.
Here’s what happened. I use LaunchBar to quickly access programs on my Mac. This afternoon, I typed the keyboard shortcut for LaunchBar (-space bar), typed ‘n,’ and then hit return. This is my two-second method to launch NetNewsWire. But [...]

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Firefox 3 Nears Release, Delicious Add-on

Wednesday, June 11, 2008 21:41 1 Comment

Firefox Release Candidate 3 is now out. It’s not a big update. In fact, there’s only one change. The nice thing is that one more of my favorite Firefox Extensions is now available for the new version of Firefox.
Delicious Bookmarks is a cool little add-on that allows you to quickly and effortlessly add new [...]

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Free (as in beer) PhotoShop book: 3 days only

Monday, June 9, 2008 21:28 4 Comments

Get your copy of The PhotoShop Anthology: 101 Web Design Tips, Tricks, Techniques by Corrie Hafley, offered for free by 99Designs for the next three days only. This 278-page book promotion is available until June 12, 2008 via sitepoint.com.
From sitepoint:
It’s brimming with tried and tested real-world Photoshop solutions that will add impact to your [...]

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