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Adobe Taking Pre-Orders for CS4

Stephen Antonucci — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 22:58:26 +0000

Adobe Web Premium CS4 Video Tour Adobe is taking pre-orders for all the CS4 applications and suites. The Adobe Creative Suite 4 Web Premium Upgrade will set you back about $594.99 [Amazon] and is expected to be released on November 14, 2008.

RapidWeaver 4 Ships for Mac Users

Stephen Antonucci — Thu, 29 May 2008 16:04:23 +0000

RealMacSoftware has announced the availability of RapidWeaver 4.0 website creation tool. You can build a fantastic website in minutes and never see any code. New features include:

Drag and Drop Site Creation

Photo & Movie Albums

iPhoto Integration

.Mac, FTP and SFTP Publishing

Built-in Image Editing

Blogging with RSS and Podcasting

Google AdSense, Analystic integration

RapidWeaver 4.0 ships with over 40 Professional designed themes as standard with many more available, making it easy to create seriously stunning websites in seconds. RapidWeaver 4.0 is available for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. RapidWeaver 3.6 is available for Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger. Price is $59 with upgrades from the previous version at $30.

Adobe Releases Three Public Betas For CS4

Stephen Antonucci — Wed, 28 May 2008 14:19:17 +0000

Adobe is giving users a preview of Dreamweaver, Fireworks, and Soundbooth from the next Creative Suite 4 by releasing free public betas. The preview software will only work for 48 hours after the first launch. If you’re an existing CS3 user, you can run the betas until CS4 becomes available. There are Windows and Mac versions available.

Adobe Drops GoLive

Stephen Antonucci — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 14:33:25 +0000

Adobe has announced that GoLive has been discontinued. The company has ceased development and sales of GoLive effective Monday, April 28, 2008. GoLive started life as CyberStudio, an early What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG) Web editor, the flagship product of German developers GoLive Systems. Adobe acquired GoLive Systems in 1999 and rechristened CyberStudio as Adobe GoLive. GoLive has gone through nine major revisions, culminating in 2007’s release of GoLive 9. Adobe acquired rival Macromedia in late 2005, and has since integrated many of Macromedia’s products including Dreamweaver. “Even after GoLive 9 came out people were drawn to Dreamweaver,” says Devin Fernandez, GoLive’s product manager, “especially around features and support for technology like AJAX and CSS Starter Points. Dreamweaver also supports dynamic content, while GoLive doesn’t.” Adobe will continue to support GoLive users with online tutorials and migration assistance created by usage experts. The company has also collaborated with online training service Lynda.com to provide tutorials for GoLive users. Adobe is also offering a $199 upgrade for registered GoLive users to switch to Dreamweaver.

Hundreds of Thousands of Microsoft Web Servers Hacked

Stephen Antonucci — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 20:44:05 +0000

According a story at the Washington Post's Security Blog, Hundreds of thousands of Web sites - including several at the United Nations and in the U.K. government -- have been hacked recently and seeded with code that tries to exploit security flaws in Microsoft Windows to install malicious software on visitors' machines. The attackers appear to be breaking into the sites with the help of a security vulnerability in Microsoft's Internet Information Services (IIS) Web servers. In an alert issued last week, Microsoft said it was investigating reports of an unpatched flaw in IIS servers, but at the time it noted that it wasn't aware of anyone trying to exploit that particular weakness. Read the rest at the Washington Post's Blog.

Woopra: Real Time Tracking for Websites

Stephen Antonucci — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 22:07:39 +0000

Woopra is a robust "real time" web-tracking & analysis tool for websites. I saw this on a GeekBrief podcast and have signed up. It is currently in beta and you must wait for an invitation after signing up.

Rage Updates SERank and Domainer Web Apps

Stephen Antonucci — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 14:41:13 +0000

Rage Software released released updates for SERank 1.6 and Domainer 1.6. SERank 1.6, which tracks and monitors search engine rankings for web sites. This release adds integration with the company's Domainer, creation of filters based on rank change, support for Google Australia, drag-and-drop of keywords between web sites, and other changes. SERank is priced starting at $59.95 for Mac OS X 10.4 and up (Universal Binary). Domainer 1.6, which tracks and manages domain names. This update adds creation of PDF domain reports with all information retrieved, display of third-party backlinks only, and some bug fixes. Domainer is $39.95 for Mac OS X 10.4 and up (Universal Binary).

Recommended Mac OS X Web Tools

Stephen Antonucci — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 00:26:09 +0000

OK, you want to be a website designer or developer. Or maybe you already have several sites under your belt and are new to the Mac. I thought I would give you a list of some nice web tools for OS X. These tools will be helpful for users with any skill level or no matter how they work. Coder or designer, here are some of my favorites. Besides we love lists here on ReelSmart. Site Design Adobe CS3 Web Premium Standard and Premium, US$999 to US$1,599 with upgrades and crossgrades available from $399. There are educational discounts available - This is the big commercial kahuna. CS3 Web Premium Standard includes Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Flash, and Contribute. Web Premium Premium adds Photoshop Extended, Acrobat, and Illustrator. Of course all these products are available separately. These are complete suites that have a pretty steep learning curve for beginners, but lack little in capability. Foe simple and personal sites you certainly do not need this. Freeway Express and Freeway Pro, US$69 to US$199 with crossgrades and educational pricing also available - You can build sites without writing a single line of code. Use the available templates or Freeway excels in allowing you to build your own site and template. Sandvox Regular or Pro US$49 - US$79 - Drag and drop content, allows you to create your site, and make it available to others with Sandvox's publishing assistant. Sandvox is that simple—and that powerful. You no not need to write any code and pick from over 40 site designs available. Rapidweaver, US$49.00 - create and publish beautiful, modern sites, compliant with today's web standards without writing code. Don't be fooled Rapidweaver is pretty powerful and very easy to use. Nvu, free - An Open Source complete Web Authoring System for Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X that rivals GoLive, FrontPage and Dreamweaver. ShutterBug US$39.95, - website creation with photo albums, movies, journals, image rollovers, contact forms and a selection of more than 80 fully customizable free themes. Stone Studio, US$299 - Create, PhotoToWeb, TimeEqualsMoney, SliceAndDice, PStill, PackUpAndGo and GIFfun. Stone Works, US$399 - 17 apps, a screen saver & a widget: Create, Videator, iMaginator, PhotoToWeb, TimeEqualsMoney, SliceAndDice, PStill, PackUpAndGo, GIFfun, StampInStone, GlobalWarmth, FontSight, PreferenceCommander, StarMores, XaoS, TrueBlue, Qouija, VideationNation screensaver and StoneWorks widget. GoodPage, US$99 - full featured HTML CSS Editor for Mac OS X. Text Editors Which text editor you use can be like discussing religion with some developers. Here is a list of my favorites. BBEdit, $125 - is the holy grail of text editors for the Macintosh. It includes built in validation, preview in any browser, auto indenting, and HTMLTidy. Coda, US$79, - Web development tool - text editor + transmit (FTP) + css editor + terminal + books + more. Coda is more than a text editor as from its inception it was vying to combine multiple tools. I love this app and use it regularly. It lacks a regular WYSIWYG view and uses previews instead. The text editor included is based on SubEthaEdit and the included FPT is based on the wonderful Transmit. If you are purely a visual designer, you may need something else. For all others dive in. HyperEdit, US$19.95 - is a lightweight HTML editor with a preview pane that displays the web page live as you type. Great for testing HTML and executing PHP code to make sure it looks exactly as you want it. skEdit, US$34.95 - Simple, flexible, powerful text editor for the web. Smultron, free text editor for Mac OS X Leopard 10.5 which is both easy to use and powerful with all the advantages of an Cocoa application. Features tabs, line numbers, support for syntax colouring for many different languages, functions list, support for text encodings, snippets, a toolbar, a status bar, preview, split window, multi-document find and replace with regular expressions, possibility to show invisible characters, authenticated open and saves, command-line utility, full screen editing and running commands and scripts from within the application. SubEthaEdit, Education $19.95 / Commercial $35, OS X only - powerful and lean text editor. And it’s the only collaborative one you can actually use. Great for education and collaborative note taking. TextMate, 39euros - Powerful text editor that combines the power and flexibility of UNIX text editors such as Vim and Emacs with the simplicity and elegance of a Mac. TextWrangler, Free - light version of BBEdit text editor. CSS Editors cssedit, US$29.95 - Fantastic CSS editor, a must have for any web designer. My favorite CSS editor. Style Master, US$59.99 - OS X and Windows - very good CSS editor. Xylescope, US$19.95 - nice CSS debugger and analysis tool. Extremely helpful in figuring out CSS sites. Image Editors There is no shortage of image editors for OS X. Acorn, US$39.95 - nice image editor for OS X. GIMPshop, Free - Gimp is a powerful, open source image editing application. For more info on the Gimp visit gimp.org. GIMPshop is essentially the same program with some cosmetic changes. iMaginator, US$49 - takes advantage of OS X's Core Image allowing for non destructive Image editing in real time. Iris, US$79 - image editor for OS X. Photoline, US$90 - Photoshop alternative application. Pixelmator, US$59 - beautifully designed, easy-to-use, fast and powerful image editor for Mac OS X. Seashore, Free open source image editor based on GIMP, but is 100 percent Cocoa and integrates perfectly with OS X. FTP - Get those files on the server Captain FTP, US$29 - offers secure file transfer, a tabbed-window interface, local network transfers, file previews, address book, multiple connections, auto-resume. CyberDuck, Free - FTP and SFTP solid, reasonably fast, and loaded with features. Expandrive, US$29, OS X - adds SFTP into Finder allowing you to mount remote volumes like local drives safe an securely. Fetch, $25, - Easy-to-use, full-featured FTP and SFTP client for the Apple Macintosh. ForkLift, US$29.95 - powerful file manager for the Mac. Connect to FTP/SFTP or WebDAV servers, manage your Amazon S3 account or your mobile devices over Bluetooth. Interarchy, $59 - full featured FTP application for the Mac. Transmit, US$29.95 - One of the best FTP/webDAV applications I have ever used on any platform. It has some really killer features that you might not expect an FTP application to have. Yummy FTP, US$25 - nice and fast FTP app for the Mac Blogging from the Desktop ecto, US$17.95 is a feature-rich desktop blogging client for MacOSX and Windows. MarsEdit, US$29.95 is a feature-rich desktop blogging client for Mac OS X. Capture Tools InstantShot!, Free - Screenshots controlled from your menu bar. iShowU, $20 - a nice video screen capture tool. Jing Project, free - capture screenshots or record video of your desktop and allowing you to upload them to screencast.com. ScreenFlow, US$99 US, Complete screen capture and editing suite for the Mac for creating screencasts. Very close to what Camtasia offers on Windows. Great for creating training and how to videos for the web. ScreenSteps, US$39.95 or $59.95 for Pro - makes creating visual training and documentation almost effortless. I must for computer training. Outputs to HTML for building training websites. Skitch, free - capture images, annotate and share. Snapz Pro X, $29 - $69 - image and video screen capture tool. Other Helpful Apps Art Text, US$40 - application to create high quality textual graphics, headings, logos, icons, web banners and buttons. ArtRage, free - painting package designed to provide a realistic and fun simulation of using paint on a canvas, along with pens, pencils, crayons, and other tools like Corel Painter. CocoaMySQL, free and open source - great tool for managing mySQL data on the Mac. ColourMod Dashboard, free - nice dashboard widget to help in picking colors. ColorSchemer Studio, US$49 - is a professional color matching application for anyone from hobbyists to advanced professionals. EazyDraw, US$95 - is a powerful vector based drawing application. GIFfun, free - make animated gifs the easy way. Locomotive is the complete solution for beginning and veteran RoR (Ruby on Rails) developers to make the best of their time, a single utility to get up and running developing on rails. MAMP, Free - MAMP stands for Mac, Apache, MySQL, and PHP with PHP MyAdmin. Inkscape, Free and Open Source - vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, Freehand, CorelDraw, or Xara X. Paintbrush, free and open source - paint program for Mac OS X, similar to Microsoft Paint and the now-defunct MacPaint. Painter’s Picker, US15.85 - an interactive color wheel for OS X’s Color Picker. Pipette, free - handy utility that allows you to quickly and easily grab the color of any pixel on the screen and copy it in hex format. PixelStick, free tool for measuring distances and angles on the screen. Rage Domainer, US$39.95 - manage your domains easily. RAGE MapDesign, US$19.95 - easy way to create image maps for your web site that respond to user actions such as moving your mouse over certain sections of an image. RAGE SEKeyword, free - examine your website content suggesting your most relevant keywords and keyword phrases. RAGE SERank, US$59.95 - quickly see and compare where and when your website is appearing in over 50 search engines for the keywords your customers are searching. SliceAndDice, US$49 - Turn images into web pages. xScope, US$26.95 - seven tools in one, measure anything on your screen allowing designers to produce accurate results fast. Let me know if I missed you favorite OS X web tool. I am always looking to check out new ones I may not have seen or used before.

Google Launches Sites

Stephen Antonucci — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 14:37:43 +0000

Google has launched a hosted-wiki service branded as Google Sites, now part of the Google Apps. This new service has spawned from the acquisition of Jotsot the Google made about a year and a half ago. Google Sites enables users to create group collaboration tools that can be easily edited and changed with instant integration with the rest of Google Apps and services. YouTube, Picasa, Google Calendar and Google Docs can all be embedded into Google Sites templates, making sharing and collaborating information easier than ever. Just like the rest of Google Apps, Google Sites is free and can be linked to a domain name. Premier service, which includes support and additional storage is available for $50 a year per user.

MarsEdit Gets a Nice Update

Stephen Antonucci — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 15:06:02 +0000

Red Sweater Software's MarsEdit 2.1 is a weblog editor that works with a variety of systems and provides drafts, preview templates, spell checking, markup macros, custom templates, image and file uploading, Flickr integration, category support, trackbacks, AppleScript support, and other features. This release adds filtering of posts and drafts by keywords, tagging for supported systems, an improved web view, and an option to save drafts to the server. MarsEdit is $29.95 for Mac OS X 10.4 and up (Universal Binary).

ReelSmart Server Upgrade

Stephen Antonucci — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 16:33:08 +0000

ReelSmart has just been moved to a better server that should help the CPU Quota problems we were having with the current traffic load. I also installed WP-Cache plugin to assist with keeping the website up and faster. You should see less down time. Thanks for all of you that have supported ReelSmart by using my links and the online ReelSmart Amazon Store. This has allowed me to pay for this upgrade.

Panic’s Coda Goes to version 1.1

Stephen Antonucci — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 01:34:39 +0000

Panic has released Coda 1.1 which adds quite a few enhancements as well as being better compatible with Leopard. Coda is one of my favorite web development tools. Gone is the in-house developed, toolbar updated to the default Leopard GUI, meaning it's now customizable! Coda is $79 for a limited time, $69 for owners of Transmit 3. Coda includes a Text editor + Transmit + CSS editor + Terminal + Books + More.

Six Apart Launches iPhone/iPod Touch Plugin for Movable Type 4/Typepad

Stephen Antonucci — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 14:02:39 +0000

Six Apart has announced a plugin for Movable Type 4 and TypePad that makes it possible to blog from your iPhone using a very cool interface on the iPhone. OK I need to find one for WordPress now.

Adobe Flash Becomes a MovieStar

Stephen Antonucci — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 15:59:33 +0000

Adobe has announced the latest version of Flash Player 9, codenamed Moviestar, because it includes H.264 standard video support – the same standard deployed in Blu-Ray and HD-DVD high definition video players. The quality of video has been substantially improved from the previous version of Flash Player 9. Also added to the mix is High Efficiency AAC (HE-AAC) audio support and "hardware accelerated, multi-core enhanced full screen video playback". Adobe claims that these advancements will extend their leadership position in web video "by enabling the delivery of HD television quality and premium audio content". The new Flash Player will be available later today as a beta at Adobe Labs - and the final release is slated to be available in the fall (September - November). The last big update to Flash Player was the launch of Flash 9 in June 2006. Currently Adobe Flash Player is said to have 98.7% penetration in the Web, making it the most used media player. Tipping Point for H.264 Mark Randall, Chief Strategist for Dynamic Media at Adobe, makes three main points to the Moviestar release:

1. The H.264 support means superior video quality; it is also an open standard. 2. High Efficiency Advanced Audio is, says Mark Randall, a "successor to MP3". He said it is a higher quality audio, but at a lower bit rate. 3. It means "hardware acceleration" for Web video.

Randall also said that this represents a tipping point for the H.264 standard, because now Flash Player is supporting it as well Blu-Ray - two big industry players.

RapidWeaver Updated to 3.6.2

Stephen Antonucci — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 18:32:43 +0000

RapidWeaver 3.6.2 release includes some bugfixes, but a few new features too: Aperture support in the Media Browser; Dynamic PHP Sidebar to "significantly reduce upload times when posting entries, particularly on larger sites"; Customisable RSS URLs (for integration with services such as Feedburner) and more. The upgrade is free to registered customers of RapidWeaver 3.6.x users, owners of versions of RapidWeaver 3.5.1 or earlier can upgrade for $25, and a new license costs $49. If you are not familiar with RapidWeaver. It is a great solution for building and maintaining websites with writing the actual code. I highly recommend it. RapidWeaver is built in Mac OS X's native language, Cocoa, so it is for Mac users only.

Apple Redesigns Web site with fresh look and feel

Stephen Antonucci — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 03:03:11 +0000

Apple's new web site launch coincided with the conclusion of Apple CEO Steve Jobs’ keynote address at the 2007 Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC). Looks great, check it out! By the way if you are looking for .Mac link you can still get there directly from here.

Adobe Keeps GoLive Alive a bit Longer

Stephen Antonucci — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 13:26:19 +0000

Adobe has released GoLive 9.0, a major upgrade of the web authoring software. This new release is Universal Binary for Intel Macs, and features character and paragraph styles similar to those in InDesign but defined in CSS, a visual CSS window, a Place command, InDesign integration (including preservation of InDesign formatting and automatic translation to CSS), and more. GoLive 9 is $399 ($169 upgrade) for Mac OS X 10.4.8 and up or Windows XP/Vista. This maybe the last major update to GoLive which seems to be on "life-support" as Adobe has already made it clear they expect serious web designers to more to Dreamweaver which they acquired from the Macromedia buyout.

RapidWeaver Updated to 3.6

Stephen Antonucci — Thu, 24 May 2007 17:07:26 +0000

Realmac Software has released a new version of its native Cocoa app, RapidWeaver. This powerful WYSIWYG Mac-only software that does a great job of filling the gap between Apple's iWeb and Adobe Dreamweaver making it easy for non-web designers to launch great websites. This new v3.6 adds an amount of new features, such as:

Themes Styles - no more digging in HTML and CSS to customize your theme (unless you want to)
6 completely new themes
Snippets - manage chunks of frequently used code instead of copy/pasting or constantly re-typing
New Flash Slideshow - completely rewritten and can now pull images from a Flickr feed
Improved blog, including tags and inline comment support
Easy creation of Lists
Detailed Publishing
And much more

Realmac Software has made v3.6 a paid upgrade - current users can purchase a v3.6 license for $25, while a full license costs $49. A free demo is available.

Adobe Flex Enters Open Source, Take That Microsoft

Stephen Antonucci — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 16:53:50 +0000

Adobe is presenting a very compelling challenge to developers who may be considering trying out Microsoft's Silverlight platform (introduced at NAB) which Redmond hopes to move in on Flash's dominance. Adobe is moving the Flex SDK to an open source model. With this newly announced plan gives Microsoft's planned entry into cross-browser, rich Internet application creation hit a big speed bump. Open source developers who inherently mistrust Microsoft (wonder why?) are likely to check out Adobe Flex for their cross-browser application construction needs.

Sandvox 1.2 Update Released

Stephen Antonucci — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 19:25:18 +0000

Karelia Software has released Sandvox 1.2, an updated version of their visual Web page editing software for Mac OS X. A free update for registered users, Sandvox costs $49 for the regular edition or $79 for a pro version. Sandvox is a great WYSIWYG web editor that integrates with .Mac and iLife that makes building and uploading a website easy. Sandvox features attractive default templates you'll actually want to use. Sandvox requires Mac OS X v10.4 or later and is Universal binary for Intel or PPC Macs.

CSSEdit 2.5 Now Available

Stephen Antonucci — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 19:12:38 +0000

CSSEdit 2.5 is the new update to MacRabbit’s nicely polished application for CSS development. New features included tabbed editing and an X-Ray inspector. See what's new here. Very nice update, (free for registered owners of v2.x). Users of 1.x can upgrade for $14.95 instead of CSSEdit's regular price of $29.95, and of course a demo is available from MacRabbit. If you need to get serious with CSS, you will love this application.

Coda: Text editor + Transmit + CSS editor + Terminal + Books + More

Stephen Antonucci — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 18:48:25 +0000

Panic, makers of my favorite FTP application Transmit has just released a new application for web developers who like to hand code. And who doesn't? Coda combines a Text editor + Transmit + CSS editor + Terminal + Books + More all in one beautiful looking application. Instead of buying and having to use separate applications for text editing, FTP, CSS editing, preview, terminal app, and finding resources.

Shades: A Better Color Picker

Stephen Antonucci — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 15:13:01 +0000

Chromatic Bytes' Shades makes a better color picker, $14.95 for OS X by adding an additional pane to your standard Apple Color Picker. It is designed to help you choose colors by showing you grids of related colors. Shades uses Hue - Saturation - Brightness (HSB) color coordinates which many people find more intuitive than Red - Green - Blue (RGB) color coordinates. To use Shades, you choose a center color, a step size and a color coordinate (one of H, S or B) to hold constant. Shades then draws a grid of related colors. Shades holds one of hue, saturation or brightness constant and varies the other two. Choosing H-B from the segmented control gives a grid where the saturation is held constant, the hue varies horizontally and the brightness varies vertically. Similarly, B-S holds the hue constant while varying brightness and saturation across the grid and H-S holds the brightness constant while varying hue and saturation. See my tip: OS X Tip #86: Make the Color Picker Into An Application.

Create Matching Color Schemes Easily

Stephen Antonucci — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 17:23:18 +0000

Color Schemer Studio $49.99 (OS X or Windows) is a professional color matching application for anyone from hobbyists to advanced professionals. This is especially helpful if you are color challenged like me. Color Schemer allows you to pick a great color scheme with a dynamic visual color wheel, instantly.

Build A Website With No Experience

Stephen Antonucci — Sun, 17 Dec 2006 18:51:51 +0000

Building a website for your small business, organization or a personal web page for blogging, pictures, or announcements has never been easier. There are so many easy to use solutions that do not require extensive knowledge of HTML or CSS. OK, did I lose you already? What is HTML (hyperlink-markup-language) or CSS (cascading-style-sheets)? Well forget those for now. Here is some solutions for getting up a nice site without knowing any of of this.

Microsoft Kills FrontPage

Stephen Antonucci — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 13:04:39 +0000

According to Microsoft's FrontPage own home page and a story on the Inquirer, “After nine years of being an award-winning Web authoring tool, FrontPage will be discontinued in late 2006.” The news originally leaked out when an irate ISP support engineer told an Inquirer reader, “Microsoft has since decommissioned and no longer supports FrontPage.” He added, “Microsoft has not supported FrontPage Extensions on Linux hosting accounts since 2002.” His suggestion was to “recommend no longer using FrontPage and utilizing FTP software to upload your website.”

Add Google Gadgets For Your Website

Stephen Antonucci — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 18:51:01 +0000

Google has made it easy to add Google Desktop widgets to any website with a Javascript embed. Simply go to Google Gadgets For Your Webpage, pick a gadget you want to add, pick a color scheme, get the code, and embed it in your webpage.

Dashalytics Dashboard Widget

Stephen Antonucci — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 15:08:37 +0000

If you run a blog or website and are always looking for better ways to track your sites statisticsGoogle Analytics is another great, free service from Google. It generates useful stats from your website using some javescript that you insert in your webpages. This is similar to Mint in this regard. Mint works very similar, but is not free and you must pay $30 per website for the service. One of the thing I like about Mint is your $30 comes with a nice Dashboard Widget to track your site's statics with a simple F12 push. Well this new Dashalytics Dashboard Widget gives you the same experience using the free Google Analytics. Whatsmore, is you can track multiple sites with this useful widget.

Firefox Add-ons: For Web Developers

Stephen Antonucci — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 16:39:23 +0000

If you are a front-end web developer, Firefox and its many extensions can be your best friend. I thought I would provide a list of extensions that are very useful.

ReelSmart.com Now Offers Language Translation

Stephen Antonucci — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 03:22:13 +0000

I am happy to anounce that ReelSmart can now be easily translated via the buttons on the upper right.

ReelSmart RSS Yahoo! Widget Now Available at Yahoo!

Stephen Antonucci — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 05:25:05 +0000

The free ReelSmart RSS Yahoo! Widget is now Available at Yahoo!Widgets (formally known as Konfabulator) for download. I built this Yahoo! Widget for readers wanting to keep track of my RSS feed to get the latest posts. This Widget is compatible with Mac OS X or Windows XP/2000 machines. Please be aware that you must have the latest version of the Yahoo! Widget Engineer (3.1.4 or higher) to run the ReelSmart RSS Yahoo! Widget.

ReelSmart Dashboard Widget Now Available On Apple Site

Stephen Antonucci — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 01:05:58 +0000

The ReelSmart RSS Dashboard Widget is now available from the official Apple Widget website. Please download and install it to keep track of ReelSmart Posts via Dashboard.

Yahoo! Widget for ReelSmart.com

Stephen Antonucci — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 19:42:10 +0000

I have added a Yahoo! Widget (formally known as Konfabulator) for ReelSmart.com readers to keep track of my RSS feed. Please download it and install it on your Mac OS X or Windows XP/2000 machine. Please be aware that you must have the latest version of the Yahoo! Widget Engineer (3.1.4 or higher) to run the ReelSmart RSS Yahoo! Widget. This is due to Yahoo! Widgets converting to a "flat" file system for version 3.1.

Dashboard Widget for ReelSmart.com

Stephen Antonucci — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 19:23:37 +0000

ReelSmart.com readers now have a Dashboard Widget to keep track of my RSS feed. Please download it and install it on your Mac OS X machine.

ReelSmart.com Version 2.0 Released

Stephen Antonucci — Sun, 09 Jul 2006 22:10:10 +0000

Check out ReelSmart.com's new look and new features. Hopefully you will find it more better. Watch over the next few weeks for more additions to what I am calling ReelSmart 2.0. ReelSmart has been growing in readers and we needed to go to a three column site and better layout. Please let me know what you think of the new look by voting in our online poll located on the right sidebar.

What Is RSS and Why Should You Care?

Stephen Antonucci — Sat, 03 Sep 2005 02:05:32 +0000

RSS, "Really Simple Syndication" is being utilized to empower people to subscribe, syndicate, and distribute content such as text, PDFs, audio, and even video to other interested people. Just about anything can be syndicated via RSS. Once information is in an RSS format, an RSS-aware application can check the feed for changes and react to those changes in an appropriate matter. Subscribers can be notified instantly whenever changes, new posts of a website, wiki (open source online encyclopedia), podcast is added, download is available, or even for the revision of an online book.

MS IE7: Another Reason to Switch to Firefox

Stephen Antonucci — Thu, 28 Jul 2005 03:40:16 +0000

Web developers have enough problems trying to make their websites render and operate in different browsers. Or worse yet... some do not try at all. Only testing and making it work in Microsoft Internet Explorer! This annoys us all who "choose" not to use Windows or IE. Web standards should always be followed so websites work for all in the perfect world. Just because there is a lot of something, does NOT make it a standard. It's no secret - web developers are unhappy with IE. That no innovation has happened to IE in years. That IE of offers little in advanced features to users.