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My Clippings is the program for anyone with a Kindle 2 who uses Annotations or Clippings capability of the Kindle 2. It will allow you to transform your 'My Clippings' files into a table format. My Clippings can create HTML tables, CSV that can be used for importing into Excel or just a docx file which is the latest Microsoft Word document format. - Antonio Volpon

An easy to use, powerful, and flexible framework for building prototypes and production code on any kind of device. - Antonio Volpon

How do you know if a designer is any good? And how do you know if they're the right person for your project? Here's a short guide to help you find out. - Antonio Volpon

Picture this: You're a designer at Fancy Design Firm, charged with building out a design that another group will implement. You might never meet this group, you don't know how adept they are with buildout, and you're not entirely sure what they'll want to do with your CSS/HTML. - Antonio Volpon

Personally, as a PM I believe that the earlier the PM can be introduced into the project, the easier it is for the PM to engage in the project and have a clear vision as to the direction of the project. - Antonio Volpon

Launches are exciting, but they can be exciting in the intended way at the same time as going boringly to plan. - Antonio Volpon

BTBuckets is a free personalization and on-site behavioral targeting tool that allows websites to increase engagement and ultimately maximize conversion rate optimization in real-time, by segmenting and targeting strategic user groups. - Antonio Volpon

Private Eye is a free network connection monitor for Mac OS X Lion. It monitors both incoming and outgoing connections and does its very best to help you find what you are looking for. - Antonio Volpon

The goal of the cart page is to successfully move the customer to the checkout or back to shopping, but to reduce abandonment, cart information must be displayed clearly and with the proper editing tools and point-of-action assurances. - Antonio Volpon

Managing a WordPress blog, designing and deploying WordPress themes, and even writing WordPress plugins does not require an in-depth knowledge of how WordPress processes requests to its pages, forms responses based on those requests and spews out a nice and clean HTML code to make the users happy. However, understanding the inner-workings of what makes it all tick proves (at least to us) to be a great advantage when coding advanced plugins or theme features and debugging them. - Antonio Volpon

One reason why the cohort analysis is valuable is because it helps to separate growth metrics from engagement metrics. This is important because growth can easily mask engagement problems. If you’re successfully adding lots of users to your service, your overall engagement numbers will look positive because those new users are relatively well-engaged, spending lots of time on the site in the beginning. If you only looked at overall engagement numbers then you would think that your service is continuously getting stronger. - Antonio Volpon

Great employers must shift the focus from trying to get more out of people, to investing more in them by addressing their four core needs — physical, emotional, mental and spiritual — so they're freed, fueled and inspired to bring the best of themselves to work every day. - Antonio Volpon

Making the user responsible for app management is effectively inflicting a steadily increasing amount of pain upon them. This puts a increasing pressure on apps and they are going to be used less and less often. - Antonio Volpon

SMACSS (pronounced "smacks") is more style guide than rigid framework. There's no library within here for you to download or install. SMACSS is a way to examine your design process and as a way to fit those rigid frameworks into a flexible thought process. It's an attempt to document a consistent approach to site development when using CSS. - Antonio Volpon

When you’re crafting themes, are you checking the quality of your theme code? The design is important, yes, but so is the code. - Antonio Volpon

When you’re crafting themes, are you checking the quality of your theme code? The design is important, yes, but so is the code. - Antonio Volpon

I started tracking my time because I want to improve my behaviors. - Antonio Volpon

I started tracking my time because I want to improve my behaviors. - Antonio Volpon

Once you take the decision to remove the scrollbar, you lose the only remaining reason why you should scroll in that direction. - Antonio Volpon

Once you take the decision to remove the scrollbar, you lose the only remaining reason why you should scroll in that direction. - Antonio Volpon

So you want to organise a conference. Great; do it. It’s a lot of work, but it’s also very rewarding, and it will put your city on the map for your topic. - Antonio Volpon

You are not Bono - Antonio Volpon

The business, psychology and technology of high-performance web apps - Antonio Volpon

How to write and explain terms of use - Antonio Volpon

Suggestions on how to help speakers during a conference - Antonio Volpon

How to build a mobile version of a Wordpress site with plugins - Antonio Volpon

The rise of the faux-vintage photo is an attempt to create a sort of “nostalgia for the present,” an attempt to make our photos seem more important, substantial and real. We want to endow the powerful feelings associated with nostalgia to our lives in the present. - Antonio Volpon

This website and its sample code creates a template of sorts, absent of design or layout, that will help you avoid some of the major rendering problems with the most common email clients out there — Gmail, Outlook, Yahoo Mail, etc. - Antonio Volpon

The problem with mining in the software business is that it doesn’t work. It creates broken, useless companies. - Antonio Volpon

You will die having missed almost everything. There are really only two responses if you want to feel like you're well-read, or well-versed in music, or whatever the case may be: culling and surrender. - Antonio Volpon