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Don't buy my book! (It's FREE this weekend)

Wait - Don't buy my book! Thanks to a very cool Amazon.com KDP promotion, my eBook, How I Sold My Business: A Personal Diary, will be made FREE this weekend.

I don't know how all of the Amazon KDP promotion works, but I do know they set aside over $6M per year to let self-publishers like myself make their books freely available to the public for brief periods of time, so I'm making my new eBook free this weekend.

Best free Mac software (Mac freeware)

Mac freeware FAQ: Can you provide a list of the best free Mac software?

While I'm loading up some freeware on a friend's new MacBook, it hit me how much really wonderful free Mac software is available these days. Of course there are free web browsers, which everyone wants, but there are also free Mac HTML editors, mail clients, and other free Mac apps for image editing, FTP, RSS, IRC, and CD/DVD burning and ripping, and much more. You can get a lot of things done these days using only free software.

Free PHP charts and graphs

As I embark on two new PHP web applications that have a lot of charting and graphing needs, I've started to dig into the PHP charts and graphs world. I'm pleased to say there are several nice, free PHP charts and graphs tools available, and several commercial PHP charting/graphing tools as well. Here's my quick review of the current PHP charts and graphs tools.

Mac disk space - How to reclaim lost disk space on Mac OS X

Mac OS X disk space FAQ: Help, I'm running out of disk space on my Mac OS X system; can you recommend any Mac disk utilities to help me reclaim my lost Mac disk space?

Win a copy of Introducing HTML5 (free)

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In 2011 I'm giving away more prizes than ever before. This month I'm giving away two copies of a terrific and extremely popular book, Introducing HTML5.

Hide your Mac desktop icons - Free

Summary: Hyde, an application to let you hide your Mac desktop and desktop icons, is now free.

As promised, my Hyde software application is now free. If you haven't heard of it before, Hyde is a simple little application for Mac systems that lets you hide your desktop and desktop icons, like this:

Hide your desktop icons with Hyde

Mac OS X image scaling - Create your own fast, free image scaling app

Mac OS X images FAQ: Can you recommend a small Mac app that scales Mac images fast, and is preferably free?

I've been creating a lot of scaled images for my One Man's Alaska website lately, and since I always scale them to a width of 600 pixels I've been trying to find the fastest, easiest way to create these scaled images.

I have been using the Gimp to do this, but it's really a little cumbersome and overkill for this. Another app named EasyCrop is closer to what I want, but it has a number of drawbacks as well.

Twitter iPhone app Trending bar annoyance

Twitter iPhone App 'trending' FAQ: Help, how do I stop that insanely annoying trending bar in the latest Twitter iPhone app?

If you use the Twitter iPhone app, and find the new "Trending" bar to be insanely annoying, you can't seem to get rid of it, but you can at least slow it down a little bit.

Drupal help and support (free)

Drupal help documentation FAQ: Where can I find Drupal help, specifically free Drupal help and support?

Free Function Point Analysis software (Sleetmute.com)

Function Point Analysis software tools: As a brief announcement, I've just created a free Function Point Analysis software application at Sleetmute.com.

If you're not familiar with Function Point Analysis (FPA), it is an industry standard technology that lets you determine the "size" of a software application. What "square feet" is to a house, "function points" are to a software application.

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