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So when Gary offers his take on “how to monetize your blog”, he knows what he’s talking about. Check out this video, complete with a live, unscripted call to a would-be sponsor for his site. Take notes.

1. Quit Mail
2. Open the Terminal and type in the following:

   
   defaults write com.apple.mail MinimumHTMLFontSize 12

3. Restart Mail.app and your HTML messages should now be more readable.

Of course, you can set the point size to whatever you like.

Rather than settling for syncing limited selections from your music library, Simplify Media enables you to access your entire iTunes music library remotely and then stream your music to your iPhone or iPod Touch via WiFi, EDGE or 3G.

You can navigate your music library by artist, album or genre, and instantly view cover art, artist bios and even lyrics for the current song selection! Plus, you can share your library with up to 30 friends.

Took me less than 5 minutes to donload the desktop application, install the iPhone player app, login to my iTunes library and begin listening to my music.

You’ll want to get this app now; it’s FREE for the first 100,000 folks to download it. After that, it will cost $3.99 in the iTunes App Store.

Check out Simplify Media for your iPhone & iPod Touch.

OK, so once you get past the quirky name, you’ll discover a simple, intelligent and powerful email marketing utility that anyone can use. Featuring some truly innovative technology, Mad Mimi is the simplest way to create branded, well-designed newsletters and promotions.

Mad Mimi is web-based, which means there is nothing to download or configure. All you need is a web browser and an internet connection. Here’s how it works…

1. Create Your Account
   The best way to see how Mad Mimi works is to complete the 1-minute sign-up for free, and then kick the tires. No credit card, no obligation, and it’s not a trial. It’s fully-functional right away!
2. Add Some Addresses
   Copy and paste your email address list(s) into Mad Mimi. Duplicates and common spacing issues are auto-corrected. Later, you can store, target and organize your list in every way imaginable.
3. Design Your Newsletter
   One of the best parts of Mad Mimi is the instantly-intuitive, uber-simple design interface. You can easily add, modify and move things around in a WYSIWYG environment. It even has an “Undo” feature, which I’ve never seen elsewhere. No design skills necessary!
4. Send Your Emails
   Mad Mimi tracks and displays the viewing and clicking behavior of your mail recipients in real time! Track opens, bounces, and every metric imaginable. Use this data to modify your marketing approach to improve results.

Within five minutes, I had already created my first test newsletter (see right). Images are placed by simply dragging them from the tray on the right into the body of your newsletter. Across the bottom of the editor is a row of handy buttons that enable you to create new sections in your newsletter, including:

• Text with an image to the right
• Text with an image to the left
• Standard text block
• Plain image
• Section Title
• Divider

Just click one of these buttons and Mad Mimi inserts the section into your newsletter, with a WYSIWYG editor, ready for you to start typing your content! Create a custom header if you like, to make the newsletter look even more polished. When you’re finished, Mad Mimi will guide you through selecting recipients from your list and sending your email campaign.

Track your campaigns

Stats are delivered in real-time, and you can track bounces, opens, untraced emails, clicks, forwards and unsubscribes. If you want even more accurate tracking, Mad Mimi also integrates with Google Analytics, intelligently automating your link tags so you can measure your promotion’s success.

Custom sign-up forms

Mad Mimi will let you create your own customized HTML sign-up form as well, adding custom fields as you see fit. When you’re done, Mad Mimi will generate a block of code for you to copy and paste into your own site to add a simple sign-up form for your visitors.

Unbeatable pricing!

Perhaps the best part of Mad Mimi is the price. The most frequent complaint I hear from my clients is how expensive it can be to send regular email campaigns to large lists of subscribers. As I mentioned before, Mad Mimi is completely free! A free account will allow you to send unlimited emails to a contact list of 100 or less. Want more?

There are three upgrade levels available to subscribers. For just $12/month, you can increase your mailing list to a whopping 5,000 contacts! $49 increases your audience to 15,000, and doubles the sending speed of your newsletters. And for you power users, $199/month allows unlimited audience members, and quadruples the sending speed!

Try it out for yourself!

The best way to see if Mad Mimi is right for you is to simply sign up for the free account and give ‘er a test run. I think within a few minutes, you’ll agree that Mad Mimi is simply the most intuitive, easiest to use and best-priced email marketing tool you’ve ever used.

Click here to check out Mad Mimi for yourself!

Behance is a company that designs products and services designed to serve and empower creative teams and individuals to make their ideas happen. With their clearly defined Action Methodâ„¢, they have come close than anyone else at defining the creative process that works best for me.

Behance is founded on the principle of ‘Productive Creativity.’ Too often, great ideas never materialize. Creative people are rarely lacking inspiration; rather, they lack effective processes and tools to make their ideas happen.”

In addition to providing networking opportunities, inspiring articles and tips, advisory services and even a “think tank” for fostering research, they have also developed a truly beautiful line of products that reinforce and enhance this simple—but potent—model for productivity.

Behance, I’m hooked.

I was pleasantly surprised to find that the new WordPress dashboard looked great on the iPhone’s display, and within a few clicks, I had pulled up the edit window, made the change and saved the page.

The newly-redesigned tabs at the top of the dashboard are perfectly positioned, with room to spare. The buttons are also perfectly suited to the “touch” interface of the iPhone, and I never hit a function accidentally. When I clicked the text within the edit window, the iPhone keyboard popped up and the screen zoomed in nicely on the text I was editing.

I’m sure it’s no accident that the new WordPress dashboard looks and functions so nicely on the iPhone. So hats off to the incredible design team of Happy Cog — Jeffrey Zeldman, Jason Santa Maria, and Liz Danzico — on their innovative redesign of the WordPress interface!

As a one-man web design shop, it’s a relief to know that I can provide support to my clients from anywhere, using just my iPhone.

(And no, I didn’t create this post from my iPhone. But I could have!)

Twitter enables us to post a simple one-liner in answer to the question, “What are you doing?” Best of all, you can update it via IM, SMS text message, or online via web browser. Simply post a new update, and everyone who “follows” you will see what you’re up to.

There’s even a great iPhone app that works with Twitter.

Twitter feed not displaying properly in your WordPress RSS Sidebar Widget?

Solution: Add a question mark to the end of the RSS feed, when you add it to the Sidebar Widget. For example:

http://twitter.com/statuses/friends_timeline/14091920.rss?

This will force the RSS Widget to always grab the latest version of your Twitter feed.

Enjoy!

But here is a terrific article that outlines several fixes for eliminating that flicker. GO »