Clear Text Formatting on OS X

Want a universal way in OS X to strip formatting from text in the clipboard? It’s as simple as creating an Applescript with the following line:
set the clipboard to (get the clipboard as text)
Read full instructions on doing this at Lifehacker

Secure Files in WordPress

WP plugin: Secure Files Allows you to safely upload and download documents stored outside of your web document root for security purposes.

This is great for people using plugins like Registered Only that secure your Wordpress blog (Posts, Pages, etc). The problem with these plugins is that your loose files aren’t protected - only the contents […]

Growth of Web Content Management Tools

Web Content Management (WCM) is growing by leaps and bounds: 

It’s that promise that’s driving growing interest in WCM. Gartner Latest News about Gartner estimates the market for the software will move past $2.5 billion by next year. Other analysts say linking other enterprise content management (ECM) with Web-facing solutions is the key to unlocking more […]

Web Design Cheat Sheets

It can be helpful to have a suite of ‘cheat sheets’ on hand if you do web design or programming. Some cheat sheets available on the web include:

Photoshop CS2 Shortcut Cheat Sheet
Dreamweaver MX Cheat Sheet
CSS Cheat Sheet
PHP Cheat Sheet […]

Power Searches in Google

A very nice article on using Google to the Max: 
Whenever you search for more than one keyword at a time, a search engine has a default method of how to handle that keyword. Will the engine search for both keywords or for either keyword? The answer is called a Boolean default; search engines can default […]

Making Web Site Printer-Friendly

An excellent discussion of how to make your web site ‘printer friendly’ at A List Apart. 

Alternative CMS’s

For robust content management, my favorite product is Expressions Engine (for complex web sites such as news sites) and WordPress (yeah, it’s a blog, but it’s easy and does all the content management most simple sites need). Both are PHP/MySQL based, and easily extensible by plugins, custom code, API tags, or simply hacking the PHP […]

Automated Email Follow-up

Here, Michael Hyatt posts a helpful hint to make sure the tasks you’ve delegated via email don’t fall through the cracks. In a nutshell, you BCC these items to yourself and run a mail rule to shunt your reminder into the correct folder.

Now, whenever you want to track an assignment that you are delegating […]

Use a portable version of Firefox on both Macs and PCs

Have you ever wanted an easy way to use Firefox on both a Mac and PC, while keeping everything easily portable between various machines?
With this solution you can store your Firefox settings on almost any storage device, including a portable USB thumb drive.
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Life Without Microsoft?

This bold move by Massachusetts bears watching:

The state of Massachusetts has laid out a plan to switch all its workers away from Microsoft’s Word, Excel and other desktop software applications, delivering what would be one of the most significant setbacks to the software company’s battle against open source software in its home market.

Two years […]