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I'm going to read and internalize all of this one day. Yes I am.

This is exactly why Instapaper is so incredible: "Instapaper makes me more productive, everywhere. On my desktop it dismisses distractions. On the go it transmutes idle time to knowledge. It remembers things I forget, but it has never become a new todo entry on my list. If all my apps had this power, I would be utterly unstoppable."

Plain and simple: software patents don't work because there's too much software and not enough people who know about it.

A great selection of VST and AU audio effects plugins for free download.

"Freedom is an application that disables networking on an Apple computer for up to eight hours at a time." Only restarting can circumvent the time limit you've sent.

Maybe useful at some point.

Short, irreverent, accurate, and funny.

"A Mac OS X Leopard developer tool for debugging HTTP services by graphically creating & inspecting complex HTTP messages."

Very neat MIDI controller iPhone apps.

"One of the great features of Mac OS X has aways been the built-in spelling checker. Unfortunately, there's no easy way to see what words you've added. But with Dictionary Cleaner, a convienient System Preferences pane for Mac OS X, now you can."

On the characteristic lack of usability in open source projects, and why. "The distributed, collaborative nature of open source software works for developer-level software, but works against user-level software. Imagine a motion picture produced like a large open source project. Different scenes written and directed by different people, spread across the world. Editing decisions forged by group consensus on mailing lists. The result would be unfocused, incoherent, and unenjoyable."

How-to.

"It’s not X because it’s Y, it’s X because it looks like it’s X because it’s Y."

"Music. Dance. Clock."

Interesting. "Patt can work on his colors and alignment, and hopefully please his user base with a helpful tool. Meanwhile the rest of us would be wise to work on the quality and value of our criticism."

"DMG Canvas builds disk images from template documents that you create."

"Unleash the POWER in your PowerShot!" Add RAW support, scripting, and more to Canon cameras that couldn't support it before. (My A520 is not currently supported.)

Spaced repetition! "Designed to help you remember facts (such as words and phrases in a foreign language) as easily, quickly and efficiently as possible. To do this, it tracks how well you remember each fact, and uses that info to schedule review times.

"Caffeine is a tiny program that puts an icon in the right side of your menu bar. Click it to prevent your Mac from automatically going to sleep, dimming the screen or starting screen savers."

A "free browser that allows you to have the rendering and javascript engines of IE8 beta 1, IE7, IE6, and IE5.5 on Vista and XP, as well as the installed IE in the same process."

Invaluable for troubleshooting web development in IE. Wish I'd known about this before today!

"Despite his initial reaction, he decided to dig deeper into this case, and he uncovered a bug that had been sitting in the code of all BSDs (including Mac OS X), including a lot of old releases. He confirmed the bug was already in 4.2BSD, released in Aug

A variety of homespun video presentation software for all your art installation needs.

"The MacPorts Project is an open-source community initiative to design an easy-to-use system for compiling, installing, and upgrading either command-line, X11 or Aqua based open-source software on the Mac OS X operating system."

On the price of software.

In case I ever need this.

If, for some reason, FlickrExport ever fails me.

Kieran explains the importance of ideas, process, computers, and the mastering of technology that works when it comes to creating music. Loaded with great technical and system setup details.

Firefox has more users, perhaps, than is commonly assumed. With Firefox 3 on the near horizon, this may shoot up even more.

Big Medium developer Josh Clarks talks about the many miles to go after completing the launch milestone, the importance of long and consistent hours, and the constant refinement of software development and support.