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Posts from November 2007

Increase deliverability of your application’s emails

Since we spent many (many) painful hours of research understanding why systems were junking our Planypus emails, we decided to publish some of our findings.
There is no surefire way to escape getting junked but there are many things you can do to enhance your chances.
1. The biggest one is called SPF (http://www.openspf.org/) - helps [...]


Amazon Kindle

A smattering of my own opinions on a device I neither own nor plan to buy, from a company I greatly respect.

Free internet shows the kind of foresight we expect from Amazon. Really the number of bits being streamed to download those books is insignificant and it’d be an insult to charge customers for it [...]


Zone system for digital photography

A tip based on Ansel Adams’ metering system. I haven’t tried this out but it makes intuitive sense to me as a rule of thumb for proper exposure.
Find a dark but fully detailed portion of your scene. This corresponds to Zone 3 (-2EV) on the zone scale. Using your camera’s spot meter on this spot [...]


Terminal.app has tabs

I totally missed this, and maybe you did too…Terminal.app in Leopard has tabs, that get properly labeled with the command they are running. Hit Apple-T and enjoy.