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DOTGO

Sheri Bigelow — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 06:12:50 +0000

Looking for a way to SMSify your website? Look no further. DOTGO is a new service designed to let you access your site via text message. In the past, the high cost of shortcodes have made texting prohibitively expensive for smaller websites. Now they can SMS for free with DOTGO. Try it out by texting “cnn” to DOTCOM (368266). To customize the response for your site, you just need to create an index.crml and place it in your root directory. Check out the Hello world! example cmrl file and try it out. The CMRL documentation has more examples.

Custom Laser Engraved Moleskine Notebooks

Sheri Bigelow — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 06:39:54 +0000

Say hello to custom laser engraved moleskine notebooks. The worlds favorite notebook just got way cooler.

Web developer tool of the year?

Sheri Bigelow — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 00:21:44 +0000

Joe Hewittâ€™s Firebug has quickly rocketed to “must have” status. It’s touted as “web development evolved.” Roger Johansson calls Firebug the web developer tool of the year. Think of it as live web page debugging—you can inspect and edit HTML, tweak and visualize CSS, toggle CSS declarations on and off, monitor network activity, debug and profile JavaScript, execute JavaScript on the fly, explore the DOM… need I say more? Take a minute to check out Jesse Newland’s Firebug 1.0 Beta Screencast. If you think Chris Pederick’s Web Developer Firefox Add-on is good, you’ll love Firebug. It’s a truly inspired web developer tool.