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Straight from my Notebook… eyecandy to read.

5 influential books all bloggers should know
Everything you wanted to know about simplifying your life… and way more
40+ most wanted Wordpress tricks and hacks
Screenflow - Professional screencasting Studio
Essential applications for your Mac OS X

Enjoy!

Lack of time and digital laziness moved me to put my remaining WordPress powered blogs to the bleeding edge… I update them with a simple and short command in terminal: “svn up”
This does put me in a position where I face bugs every now and then, but that does not really bother me (yet).
Working this [...]

What started as a possible way to learn to know the Nokia N95 a bit better, took off and became serious business.
With the huge rise in readers/visitors and sometimes being picked up by big sites, came more interactivity, a bigger responsibility as well as a higher pressure to keep publishing qualitative posts. At the same [...]

 I have been stunned by the many updates of ecto the past few days, but man!, it sure does deliver and has totally rewon its position as my main blogging tool.
For quite some time, I used ecto to prepare my posts on different blogs, published the drafts and did the final publishing from WordPress’ web [...]

While having paid more attention to N95blog than to any other site, I have been busy in the background with some other stuff.
In the past months, I have been monitoring and following a handful of websites that prescribe the “get rich quickly blogging” recipes, as well as the “how to become a getting-rich-while-sleeping-affiliate-search-engine-marketeer lessons” and [...]

My blogging mentor, Yaro Starak, has just released his brand new blog mentoring program called Blog Mastermind.
You can check it out here
It’s a step-by-step system for generating $1,000 - $5,000 per month from only blogging 1-2 hours a day.
Yaro currently has a blog that makes him between $4,000 and $6,000 per month and he only [...]

Amazing piece of work by fellow Rotterdam citizen Yvo Schaap:
The WordPress Theme Generator.
This online generator creates your own custom unique WordPress Theme. Without any need for HTML, JS, PHP, or CSS knowledge.
Change the colors, settings, layout, preview live, click “save” and download your unique Wordpress theme zip-file. Extract, upload, set, and you are done! (more…)

Sometimes I get asked how I manage my blogs and what my workflow looks like.
To give some insight information first the workflow when using internet resources:

Google Reader - Read updated feeds [I just scan the feeds to get a general idea what the post is about]
Google Reader - Star interesting feeds [first part of filtering [...]