Nvu - The Complete Web Authoring System for Windows, Linux, Macintosh

Nvu 1.0 is now available for download. It covers all the basic features you need in a WYSIWYG HTML editor, but is free!
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New Template Collections Help Print Designers Optimize Output

Need creative design but don’t want to start from scratch? Logic Arts Corporation announced the availability of "The InDesign Ideabook" (ISBN: 0-9669587-5-6, $59.95), "The QuarkXPress Ideabook" (ISBN: 0-9669587-6-4, $59.95), and "The PageMaker Ideabook" (ISBN: 0-9669587-4-8, $59.95) by author and designer Chuck Green. Each 276 page Ideabook includes 315 professional-quality design templates on a dual-format (Mac […]

E-mail Delivery Rates

Some recent stats on email delivery rates:
The highest delivery rates in DoubleClick’s report are in retail, at 93.8 percent, consumer publishing, at 93.3 percent, and business publishing, at 93.1 percent success rates. The lowest delivery rates were found in financial services at 88 percent, business products and services at 88.4 percent, and consumer products and […]

PHP 5.1 Data Objects

PHP 5.1 is now in beta, and introduces PHP Data Objects (PDO).
The PDO library lets you access any of an extensive selection of supported databases using a single set of functions. So not only do you only need to learn one set of functions to code to multiple databases, but you can transition […]

Getting Things Done & Covey Diagrams

Some great charts for ‘Getting Things Done’ advocates:

Getting Things Done diagram from the ubiquitous David Allen book
The GTD advanced workflow diagram by Scott Moehring
Covey Quick Reference

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PayPal - Website Payments Pro

A new tool from PayPal is designed to give merchants the option of letting customers complete credit card transactions on the merchants’ own sites–that is, without being redirected to PayPal’s site.
Merchants using PayPal’s new tool can receive orders and credit card payments via phone, fax or mail order. These merchants will have access to […]

Print Selective Categories from Entourage

Want to print out a nice calendar of only certain types of events from Entourage? This easy-to-overlook feature is available from the ‘Print | Layout’ button from the calendar. Great if you want to print out Business events and Family events as two printouts from the same calendar.
 

WordPress Plugins » Static Page eXtended

Static Page eXtended — this plugin allows you to include stand alone php pages in the place of a static page. You may write all the php you want in the stand alone file.
Jixor.com - WordPress Plugins » Static Page eXtended

Amazon Goes Dark

Amazon.com went dark today, in a complete outage lasting 41 minutes, according to AlertSite.
In June 2004, hosting provider Akami had a brief stint offline due to a distributed Denial-of-Service attack.
On May 2005, Google experienced a 15-minute period of darkness, the result of an undisclosed DNS issue.
Even the big sites have problems sometimes!
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54% of Permission Emailers Are Filtered

54% of Permission Emailers Are Filtered as Spammers: Including AOL News, Wal-Mart, IBM and the Feds.
Read more at MarketingSherpa.com