Independence Day Sale - Save 75% on MacFonts 3 and MacFonts 4

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Download MacFonts 3 for only $10 and save 75%!

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This 75% offer is only available for the download versions of MacFonts 3 and MacFonts 4, and expires July 7, 2010.

via store.digitalriver.com

Font fanatics rejoice!

Canceling Your Cell Phone

It's great to see how businesses support our military. Here's one good example.

Canceling Your Cell Phone

Our family has been Sprint cellular customers for years, and they have been pretty good to us.  I can’t compare their service to other companies because we’ve never had anyone else.  I have suspended my husband’s telephone number several times when he has been deployed and their no-cost suspension has been great.

Today I called to cancel our service while we are overseas.  We have two cell phones and one wireless card.  Both cell phones are long beyond their contract but the wireless card still has about 9 months left on its contract.  The representative assured me that there would be no termination fees since we had moved with the military, and offered to move our phone numbers to the free military plan so that we could retain the same numbers when we return to the States.

I appreciate Sprint’s help and understanding, and I am hoping that other companies treat our military members and families the same.  I’d love to hear your experiences, both good and bad, with various companies.

Denise Barrett Olson
Moultrie Creek * St. Augustine, FL
Skype - moultriecreek * 904-347-1154

WordPress Now Lets You Phone in Your Blog Posts

WordPress Now Lets You Phone in Your Blog Posts


You can already write and publish WordPress blog posts from your iPhone, iPad, Android, e-mail and desktop, but now you can also post audio via your phone.

Automattic founder Matt Mullenweg announced the new feature for WordPress.com earlier today. It’s rather simple: enable “Post by Voice” in your dashboard and you will receive a phone number and a unique code for posting audio from your phone to your blog. You can post up to one hour of audio at a time.

The new feature is powered by Twilio, a cloud-based platform for building communication and voice applications.

The feature isn’t anything revolutionary — Livejournal has supported similar functionality for years. However, it should make for thousands of interesting, late-night posts in the near future. Currently the feature is only available for WordPress.com blogs, but we’d love to see it implemented in the open-source version of WordPress as well.

Image courtesy of iStockphoto, Floortje

More About: blog, phone, Wordpress


Denise Barrett Olson
Moultrie Creek * St. Augustine, FL
Skype - moultriecreek * 904-347-1154

25 Must Have Free Apps for your New Mac

One of the best parts of owning a Mac is the cool free apps that you get to download! Just like the iPhone, there’s an app for your every need, and they exceed expectations most of the time. I will go over free basic apps as well, for those with a new setup. A lot of the apps that will be showcased are open source, which basically means that you can view it’s source code and contribute to the project.
via 1stwebdesigner.com

Found a few interesting ones I didn't know about. This is a great list!

REVIEW: Macally iPad Bookstand Case

Just received the Macally Bookstand Case for the iPad and it's perfect! The grey microfiber suede cover folds back and with the closing tab tucked into its sleeve from the back creates a very stable stand. Flip the iPad on one landscape edge and it's at a perfect display angle. Flipped over to the other landscape edge, it's ready for typing. The iPad itself snaps into curved plastic corners leaving all the controls, connectors and speakers uncovered. When closed, the soft suede protects the screen. It's lighter and less bulky than my case so who knows - I may be getting one for myself too.

London Lives 1690 to 1800 ~ Crime, Poverty and Social Policy in the Metropolis

Funded by the ESRC, and implemented by the Humanities Research Institute at the University of Sheffield and the Higher Education Digitisation Service at the University of Hertfordshire, the London Lives project is directed by Tim Hitchcock and Robert Shoemaker. The project manager is Sharon Howard. See about this project.
via londonlives.org

Hats off to Research Buzz (http://www.researchbuzz.org) for pointing me to this great resource.

Yahoo’s Style Guide For The Web

The stylebook, entitled “The Yahoo! Style Guide: The Ultimate Sourcebook for Writing, Editing, and Creating Content for the Digital World”, will be released on July 6 by St. Martin’s Griffin, and will be available in dead tree form in a variety of stores, but also – naturally – in digital form for Apple’s iPad and Amazon’s Kindle.

via techcrunch.com

Online price will be $14.84. This could be a handy tool for genea-bloggers!

Flickr updates photo page design

The best part of the new design is the size of the photo - it's much bigger. There's also a map so you can geo-locate your photo. Although I uploaded this photo via my iPad, the photo was taken on my Xacti camera, not the iPhone Flickr thinks I have. 

All in all - a very nice change.

Disney Kindle Screensavers? « Me and My Kindle

Image courtesy of Jess Park

Now, this is cool!

I’ve been blogging for a while about people who want to change or replace their Kindle screensavers. It turns out a blogger named Jess Park has turned this into a real artform.

In the spring of 2008, Disney unveiled the “Nouveau Collection,” elegant designs inspired by classic art nouveau paintings… [W]ith help from bloss_japanime, who posted high-res pictures of the journal covers, I’ve put together this delightful collection for use with your Kindle!

There’s The Little Mermaid, Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, and Princess Jasmine from Aladdin.

via meandmykindle.wordpress.com

They are all gorgeous!

File-sharing has weakened copyright—and helped society

Peer-to-peer file-sharing on the Internet has certainly weakened copyright, but that's not necessarily a bad thing unless one equates "stronger copyright" with "better copyright." According to the US Constitution, copyright is about promoting "the Progress of Science and useful Arts"; it's not about enriching authors, except as a means of promoting said "Progress."

When we think about copyright, the most pertinent question to ask is not whether some change would produce less money for rightsholders, but whether some change would remove incentives to create. Has file-sharing reduced creators' incentives?

via arstechnica.com

Thought-provoking article - well worth reading.