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It’s been awhile since I dorked out on you about new technology. There’s nothing like a marriage of good design and good development. Mint promises to be a fine example of both. Designed by Shaun Inman, Mint is his new extensible, customizable, design-savvy site stats program promising to help you look at your website in a whole new way. There are a handful of beta testers giving it a go. It’s scheduled for release on Tuesday, so keep your eyes peeled.

And speaking of good shtuff, have you tried Nvu? It’s a complete open source web-authoring system for Windows, Mac and Linux. Though I’m usually a Dreamweaver user, I’ve been a bit restless lately with the pig that DW is. I spend most of the time now in code view, so a simpler program seems more and more attractive. Things are located pretty intuitively and the interface is clean, simple and easy on the eyes. More to come as I give it more of a day-to-day test drive.

How cute is this logo? I’m a hard sell on the whole idea of storing information on the Internet. Sounds ridiculous eh? More specifically, the idea of storing personal information on the internet to be accessed from wherever you are. This idea behind it being that you can be at work, or anywhere other than at your machine and access favorites, projects, share information, etc. How is this different than a website you ask? I don’t know. It’s the methodology I suppose. Anyway, Backpack promises to change my mind (and yours). As a frequent visitor of Todd Dominey’s site, I trust his web judgement and it seems he’s been turned around by a simple, little widget! A widget for Backpack to instantly add notes, lists and any other thing you might want to store in your backpack.

Do you want to be a Style Master? While I’m having loads of fun hand coding style sheets (you’re talking to a girl who prefers Apollo over any of the crappy UI covered engines out there … Heather got it right?). But, get this, Style Master claims to be a CSS editor for beginners (complete with wizards) all the way to experts (with tools to make adhering to strict web standards a breeze). While I don’t think I need this, I keep trying to convince myself I do!

Russell + Hazel. Organization doesn’t have to be boring and/or ugly. Sure they cost a bit more, but I don’t mind for something that will be a pleasure to use. Check out their fresh colored composition books, Chicklet adhesive notes and a Stash Sack to keep your goodies in.

Oh shtuff. I do love you.