Neatly Sliced

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I switched from an HTML self-hosted blogging solution to WordPress in mid-July of 2006. My site on the HTML blogging system disappeared in August (although not being updated, it was still receiving hits until August).

It amuses me how drastically my traffic dropped. I had been blogging with iBlog for three years and evidently had built up some solid traffic (mainly through search engines). I can see that, although starting small, continued posts of substance increase site traffic; the traffic has been gradually building since that nosedive in August.

Seashore

I took this screenshot and realized that I had no way to highlight the lowpoint. iPhoto doesn’t let you just draw on images, nor does Aperture. I do not have PhotoShop. Gimp for OS X requires additional X11 features that I never got around to installing. What to do? Seashore to the rescue! Built with Cocoa, it runs natively in OS X without any help from X11. It is still a work in progress, but it is a definite download for those users who do not desire to install X11.

Why should I use it?

Using products like GIMP and Seashore encourages a world of free open source software. You can sell the products of the software (i.e., your photos or drawings), but you cannot sell the software itself. The entire world can improve the software rather than a group of people hired for the task.

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