LinksAlpha: New feature announcements

Dear Customer,
Social Media Made Easy
  You’ve been busy publishing on your website and Social Media Profiles, and we’ve been busy building great new tools to help you do just that! Managing your Social Media Publishing is going to get richer and easier with the launch of Post app by LinksAlpha.com.  
 
Schedule your Posts
The new Post app enables you to schedule your posts. You can always come back and edit your scheduled posts and change their publishing time.
 
Save Drafts
Post app enables you to save drafts while working on the posts, making your scheduling and publishing to multiple networks and profiles much easier.
 
 
Analytics
Post app keeps history of all the posts you have made to each of your Networks. And the application also keeps track of likes, comments, and retweets your posts are getting.
 
Upload Photos
Your account now comes with bundled storage enabling you to upload and serve photographs from right inside the app using our highly scalable infrastructure.
 
Changes to existing plans
With the launch of these new features, we are also rolling out changes to the existing plans that we offer. Since your account is currently subscribed to the free plan, we want to let you know the changes that will happen with the launch of these new features. Below is the quick check list of all that is changing. Please make sure that you are aware of the changes and upgrade your account accordingly.

  Old Free Plan New Free Plan Pro Plan
Need any clarification? Contact us
Networks 2 Unlimited Unlimited
Posts 300/day 50/month 1000/month
Storage 50 KB 1 GB
Note: Please note that these changes will be effective from 1 October, 2012. With this email, we want to give you enough notice so that you are prepared for this upcoming change.
Thank you

Note that in their e-mail subject line the actually misspelled “announcements” as “annoucements”.

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Email notifications from Google Webmaster Tools

Dear Webmaster Tools user,

We know that having a healthy and well-performing website is important to you. To keep you informed about your site’s status Webmaster Tools will now automatically send you a notification email if there are critical or important issues that we detect with your site.

We’ll only send you email for issues that we think have significant impact on your site’s health or search performance which have clear actions that you can take to address. For example, we’ll email you if we detect malware on your site or see a significant increase in errors while crawling your site.

For most sites these kinds of issues will occur rarely. If your site does happen to have an issue we cap the number of emails we send over a certain period of time to avoid flooding your inbox.

If you don’t want to receive any email from Webmaster Tools you can change your email delivery preferences at https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/preferences.

We hope that you find this change a useful way to stay up-to-date on critical and important issues regarding your site’s health.

If you’d like more information about Webmaster Tools and building Google-friendly websites please visit http://www.google.com/webmasters.

The Webmaster Tools Team
© 2012 Google Inc. 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043
You have received this mandatory email service announcement to update you about important changes to your Google Webmaster Tools account.

Email notifications from Google Webmaster Tools

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Send Folders to CodeKit via the Command Line

If you’re doing some web development with CodeKit and want to be able to send folders to the program via the command line (I was really hoping to do this via Quicksilver), then you can use this little tidbit:

open -a /Applications/CodeKit.app “/path/to/your/project”

The CodeKit application apparently does not associate itself with being able to open files and so it doesn’t register with folders or files as being an available “Open With” application for opening them.

Again I was hoping to do this via a quicksilver action, something like:

Send Folders to Codekit via the Command Line

If it did then quicksilver would stick it in the third pane when using the “Open With” action, wouldn’t that be nice!

Send Folders to Codekit via the Command Line

It is possible to get it into the third pane but you need to have the path to the application in your clipboard (`/Applications/CodeKit.app`) and then:

1. Select the Folder
2. Choose “Open With”
3. Tab to the third pane and paste the path to the application in.

That’s demonstrated in the screenshot above.

CodeKit’s not too bad, some aspects seem sluggish and I wish there were more features to customize it – like inclusion and exclusion rules and a finer grained control of which tabs refresh in the browser – also maybe some explanation of their partial CSS injection-on-update feature they have in the preferences.

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What is Popup.app ?

What is Popup.app ?If you’re wondering what `Popup.app` is on your Mac, the little program that has a lighthouse as an icon, and you are questioning “How did this thing get on my computer?”, well, I have your answer.

Popup.app is the pharos print popup manager. If search your hard drive for Popup.app you should find it located:

/Library/Application Support/Pharos/Popup.app

The version I have says:

Popup.app, version 8.1 (5169)
Copyright ©2004-2009, Pharos Systems

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How to Open / Launch iOS Simulator

If you have XCode installed you can go to preferences, downloads, and install the iOS Simulator, at this time the `iOS 5.0 Simulator` is the only one available, even though `iOS 6.0` is already out.

iOS 5.0 Simulator – XCode

Once it’s installed you’ll have a new application – but it is not clear where the application is actually stored.

Launch iOS Simulator

You’ll need the path for the `iOS Simulator` if you want to actually launch it or open it.

Fortunately that’s not a big problem – the iPhoneSimulator can be found at:
/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneSimulator.platform/Developer/Applications/iPhone Simulator.app

iOS Simulator Path

Now all you have to do is open it. Voila!

How to Open / Launch iOS Simulator

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PayPal attempts to compete with SquareUp

Swipe credit cards with your free card reader.

PayPal attempts to compete with SquareUp
PayPal Heretm is a simple way to accept credit and debit cards, PayPal and even checks—anywhere you do business. Unlike other mobile payment solutions, PayPal Here comes with an encrypted card reader that can be used by as many as 20 employees—backed by PayPal’s world-class security, risk and fraud management systems.

PayPal says “get paid anywhere”

Accept credit cards and checks* wherever your customers are – with PayPal Heretm.

* PayPal Here check acceptance is for US only.

PayPal attempts to compete with SquareUp

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Take Twitter with you. Get the app.

Twitter says “Take Twitter with you. Get the app.”

Take Twitter with you. Get the app.

I know why the have most of these apps, like the iPad / iPhone and Android. Hell, even the windows app. But why is the Nokia s40 so special that it gets it’s own app? Is this the European iPhone?

Take Twitter with you. Get the app.

Have your device with you?
Visit m.twitter.com on your device »
Questions about using Twitter mobile?
Visit our Mobile Help Center »
Privacy controls & notification settings?
Visit our Mobile Settings page »
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Github: Page did not respond in a timely fashion

When Github is slow it will give this error: Page did not respond in a timely fashion.

And they have a nice picture of an Angry Unicorn:

Page did not respond in a timely fashion.

Check our status site for alerts.

Either you found a page that took too long to render or
we’re getting more requests right now than we can handle.

You can try refreshing the page, the problem may be temporary.
Learn how to deal with GitHub outages and other access problems.

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Clippings.app / MOAppsClippings.app crashes on Snow Leopard

Clippings.app / MOAppsClippings.app crashes on Snow Leopard

If you’re using Clippings.app from the App Store version 1.5.1 with Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.8 you’re likely going to have problems.

The app just crashes on Snow Leopard as it can’t render the windows properly. Running the Console.app will confirm this.

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