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The problem is that the analysis can't measure logged out accounts. Instead, they measure activity. From the article:

  ...active in this sense means the number of accounts that were 
  modified over a three-month period, including changes of avatar, 
  subscribing to a new follower or tweeting, says Guyot. 
  “We believe this is close to a monthly login rate,” he tells me. 

So they are assuming if you haven't done anything, you aren't logged in. I rarely tweet and I don't think I've ever changed my avatar. I do follow or unfollow accounts, but I'm pretty sure I could find a few three months spans in my account history where I haven't.

I generally check Twitter a couple of times a day from a logged in account, but based on the above criteria I would be considered 'inactive'.

There is some code for Letters.app is on GitHub, but I don't think it got very far and the last commit was two years ago.

https://github.com/ccgus/letters

I remember thinking at the time it sounded quite interesting, so it's a shame.

I'm guessing the need for it evaporated with the improvements in Mail.app and the development of other native clients.

The Time article is a rewrite of the original article from The Economist

http://www.economist.com/node/21557801

I believe Instapaper uses a custom parsing engine for stripping content from pages.

There's a page here which lists the site specific rules Instapaper uses for extracting content:

http://www.instapaper.com/bodytext

I think this is why you see such good results from Instapaper.

Just tried it. The phone number header is still being included.

I had the same reaction when I saw the titles on the site.

Once I signed up and logged in, I could see a lot more titles that looked interesting. Still not a huge selection, but they seem to have done a poor job of promoting the service with the selection visible just on the public site.

The success of the BBC iPlayer indicates a strong demand in the UK for a video streaming service. If they can get enough content deals in place I think they'll do well.

From what dhh posted on Twitter it sounds like a full rewrite:

> The tech and the design is all new, all fresh.

https://twitter.com/#!/dhh/status/144061889201188865

I agree that UI is really going to be the story. Customers don't need to care about what's underneath.

For SSH I use Prompt (by Panic) on my iPad. It is excellent. It includes autocompletion for past commands, which makes using it with the touch screen keyboard much easier.

For heavy use, you probably want to get a physical keyboard.

I don't have any experience with RDP apps, so can't comment there.

http://panic.com/prompt/support.html

I wouldn't be so negative about it being 'yet another clone'. You've created a product that fulfils a need. The fact that others have produced similar products demonstrates there is a viable market. You've targeted a specific need with the download option which presumably you see as under served.

I tried the web demo but as others have mentioned it's not working at the moment.

I do have some comments on the website itself. I find the homepage a little confusing. Clicking 'Home' take me to 'Wireframe and Mockups', which is actually the homepage. I'd move 'About' and 'blog' links to the end of the nav, as they are less important to a potential customer. The features and benefits can probably do without the shaded background - use a larger heading and they will stand out on their own, while reducing clutter.

I'm interested to see how the 'portable server' approach goes. I can see the appeal of self-hosting options for larger companies, but I suspect the personal users will be less technical, business types who don't want to worry about a local web server. Hosting the app for them will cut down on your support requests, so why not sell online access to personal users for $77 and the enterprise, self-hosted package for more (say, $299)?

The article does say that, but it's not clear who the source for this is. Amazon and Apple declined to comment, and the only confirmed report from Sony is with regard to in-app purchases, and I'm pretty sure that was an existing condition.

So where is this new rule coming from?

Lanyrd, a web app for tracking conference just launched.

It's new, probably still has a limited audience, but it can't hurt to add your event.

http://lanyrd.com

I would also suggest contacting meet up groups in your area (web, design, whatever -- any topic freelancers would attend) and asking the organisers to do a small announcement for you, or at least post on the mailing list. The people that attend these events are likely to go to conferences, too.

For a large-ish meetup group you could consider offering a free ticket as a door prize.

I've had the same experience with broadband in the UK - unlimited is the norm. The international link costs probably do have an effect with this, but I don't think it is for mobile data. If international links were the limiting factor we'd see ADSL suppliers selling usage at similar rates, but $15 for a GB seems much higher.

I think it's actually the capacity of the mobile network. To support more throughput they'll need to install more cell towers, which is a capital expense. The telcos probably find it more profitable to restrict usage and just charge the higher users as much as possible for as long as the network will sustain it.

Web Inspector does allow you to create new CSS rules, though it's not intuitive at all.

When editing an existing rule you can add a new rule on the same line.Once you hit enter Web Inspector will put the new rule on a new line.

If there is no existing rule for an element you can cheat one in by adding 1 pixel padding via the metrics panel, which creates in inline padding style. The edit that rules or and add new rules as above.

Again, not as good as Firebug, but might be useful for some.

It looks like this is being actively worked on: https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18224

I agree the lack of DOM editing UI is a problem.