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Groupon and LivingSocial: My E-mail Friends

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I just unsubscribed from my Groupon and LivingSocial coupon e-mails. I’m sad to say that in recent memory none of the deals have been appropriate for me. More often than not the e-mails head straight to my trash bin. A few deals I let sit in my inbox for a few hours, giving myself some time to decide if I should trash it or buy it. However in the past 2-3 months all those deals end up going straight to the trash.

Throughout the entire time that I’ve subscribed to Groupon & LivingSocial I’ve purchased around 5 deals. Those 5 deals were purchased on 5 separate occasions. That means that from all the daily e-mails I’ve received only 5 have piqued my interest enough to buy. The ratio of e-mails received to deals purchased is incredibly poor.
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The Best Mac Git Gui

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Git is one of the most powerful and effective revision control systems available. It’s lightweight and highly configurable, complimenting almost anyone’s programming workflow. Predominately you interact with git from the command line, inputting commands such as `git status` or `git commit` to manipulate your repository.

When you first learn git the CLI can be daunting and confusing. Browsing through your history of commits with `git log` is not efficient. Even after you learn a few tricks such as `git log –graph –oneline –all` it remains difficult to really explore your history.

This is why a git GUI can put the joy back into using git.

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Social Folders, a Dropbox for your Social Content

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This is one of those ideas that after I saw it in action I was surprised it hasn’t been thought of sooner. Social Folders is program that you download to your computer and connect to your social networks, like Facebook or Instagram. It’ll then create a folder on your computer – like Dropbox – and fill it with all of your files that you’ve put on your Facebook account or Instagram account. They just created a video that shows the program in action. Really smart idea. Definitely check it out if you’re a big user of social websites.