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MarsEdit not yet ready for launch…

Every now & then, some software comes along that raises the bar. And quite surprisingly, MarsEdit does exactly that .. for the user, that is. You see, MarsEdit, the ‘blog authoring tool is for the likes of me, the code warrior, the tinkerer, the writer of HTML code and not the less technically well hung [...]

Coda can code but could do beta

Having been a fan of Panic’s software for quite some time, I like to keep an eye on what they’re up to. So when Coda hit the ‘Net, I felt strangely compelled to give it a squint.

I’ve been using their exemplary FTP client Transmit for donkey’s years. Way back when it was called Transit.
What I [...]

Web 2.0 + 1

I never really hit it off with the Web 2.0 moniker. To me, it was and still is a marketing gimmick that doesn’t reflect the fullness of the second breath the web has taken recently.
Version two implies the web has stepped forward. To me, that’s to neglect the fact that the web has not only [...]

Sir Tim Berners-Lee calls for Web 2.0 calm

At last! Some sense & reason seems to have been brought to all of the nonsense, obfuscation and misinformation around Web 2.0, and not before time, either:
“Tim Berners-Lee, the individual credited with inventing the web and giving so many of us jobs, has become the most prominent individual so-far to point out that the Web [...]