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SubEthaEdit 3.0 is out with some shiny new features.

• Persistent file format that stores collaboration metadata and history with QuickLook support.
• Shiny new statistics window (Command-I) showing word, character and lines counts as well as a user history.
• Highlighter supports unlimited nesting of states.
• Highlighter supports unlimited importing and linking of states in states.
• Highlighter supports transcendend named groups in states (used for e.g. HEREDOC syntax).
• Total rewrite of the encoding guessing which now includes: meta-tag content, BOMs of any kind, extended attributes and heuristical analysis.

I have been playing around with jQuery and think that it is an amazing JavaScript library. It seems to work the way that I want it to. If you are thinking about giving it a go, the article “jQuery Crash Course” by Nathan Smith is a great introduction to the jQuery Library

The article “Best Practices For Bulletproof E-Mail Delivery” delivery over at Smashing Magazine is worth taking a look at if you are trying to find the best way to get your email marketing campaign to people’s inboxes.

Here is a quick overview

• Avoid follow-ups, ask for a brief feedback — one word “soon” is enough
• Don’t attach large files to your first e-mail
• Use a consistent senders’ name and email
• Never put a link before important information
• Snail mail is bulletproof
• Avoid fictional or irrelevant sender’s name

Helping your client maintain markup quality is a difficult problem solve when your client is using a CMS to input their own content. The article “Helping your client maintain markup quality” over at 456 Berea St. looks at an interesting way to inform the CMS user when they creating non compliant markup with the WYSIWYG editor.

Apple has updated the Mac OS X Section of there website. It now includes a list of the 300+ new features that will be included with Leopard. It is definitely worth taking a look at.

My favorites on the list are still “Spaces” that will provide multiple desktops without needing to use a third party application and “Stacks” which are new way to organize files in the dock. I am hoping that “Stacks” will help keep my desktop a little bit cleaner.

In honor of Father’s Day here are some links for Dad.

• Learn How to Tie a Tie
• ESPN
• Grilling Tips