TextExpander is a Mac utility for creating auto-expanding text shortcuts—“snippets”—that can save you time on things you repetitively type, such as email signatures, your telephone number or boilerplate responses to support emails. With version 6, Smile decided to move away from paid upgrades, to a subscription plan that would cost roughly $5 per month. The move was controversial, a situation which is well documented at Michael Tsai’s blog. I’ve been using TextExpander for 10 years, but decided against continuing with a subscription plan.

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The 2016 Andalucia Kids Chess Championship took place at the El Fuerte hotel in beautiful, El Rompido, Spain.

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In this article about Roger Ver’s $100,000 bitcoin bounty to Bernie Sanders for a debate on the topic of patriotism, we come across this quote (emphasis added by me):

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Inna Demianova is doing her best to overtake Ronak Parker’s persistency record. Looking for a way to migrate WooCommerce data, I ran across her company’s Cart2Cart service, and pinged them in chat to ask if they do what I need. Inna responded, confirming they do, but I got a sense she really didn’t understand what I was asking for, so I didn’t proceed with Cart2Cart.

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Makalu was recently hired to redesign an e-commerce site running on WordPress, and implementing its shop using the WooCommerce system.

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It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.

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I experienced something today that’s frustratingly becoming quite common. I emailed the support address of a financial institution I use, and they replied that they can only provide support if I contact them from the email address registered to my account.

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Earlier this year, I built a new website through which I planned to publish the contents of my book, Money for Something, for free. After finishing the site, I found myself feeling unsatisfied with a couple of things.

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