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Foliovision now uses Markdown for formatting text in fields in our MLS listings software. You can use Markdown in either short or long description. Markdown also works throughout our project management system if you disable the WYSWIYG. This is a really quick practical guide to using Markdown without all the complicated advanced syntax only geeks need.

Micro Markdown Syntax Reference

Headers - ###
Bold - **word**
Italic - *word*
[link text](https://domain.com/page.html)
Numbered lists - 1., 2., 3.
Bullet point lists - *, -, +
Blockquote - > Quotation text, could span multiple lines and sentences.
Image - ![alttext](http://domain.com/image.jpg)

Short Markdown Syntax Guide

The page below contains examples of Markdown syntax.

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We use Markdown everywhere at Foliovision as our main project management software Teamwork offers excellent Markdown support. For some of our internal documents we desperately need tables. This was preventing us from switching everything to Markdown. I'd heard there was decent support for tables in Markdown but trying to edit Markdown tables long hand was not fun at all. This is what Markdown tables look like as plain text:

| Application - Markdown Support | Active | Preview | Price     | Non-app store version | Writing Experience | Footnotes | Strikethrough | | ------------------------------ | :----: | :-----: | --------: | :-------------------: | :----------------: | --------- | ------------- | | Typora                         | Superb |   Yes   | Free Beta |          Yes          |        ++++        | Weak      | Two Tildes    | | TableIt                        |  Yes   |   Yes   |       $19 |          Yes          |        N/A         | N/A       | N/A           | | Marked 2                       |   No   |   Yes   |       $10 |          Yes          |        N/A         | Yes       | Yes, GFM      | | BBEdit/TextWrangler            |  Yes   |   No    |  $50/free |          Yes          |         ++         | No        | No            |

So I went looking for a Markdown editor which supported tables well for my team. In the process I discovered a lot about Markdown and even editing. I invite you to join me on my journey. As I use OS X and most of our team does as well (we have some Linux and a few Windows users: we have fewer people using Windows than Linux at this point), this article focuses on OS X Markdown editors. Our overall winner is a cross-platform application (OS X , Windows, Linux) built on HTML5 technology and we do cover other Windows Markdown editors at the end of the article.

Keep reading Markdown Editors Shootout: Support for Tables, Footnotes, Strikethrough

After moving a website from one server to another, it can be difficult to get the new site to show up immediately even with very low TTL (time to live) times on the DNS server. It’s usually because of DNS cache.

As we have to test with all kinds of OS and different versions, I’ve put together how to flush DNS on each major OS (and even on Google’s tricky Chrome which maintains its own DNS cache) in one place for our own reference.

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Today's challenge is how to quickly turn this finished 5760 x 3840 10 MB photograph into a a high quality and compact web version:

For years I output my photos for web and email with Adobe Lightroom or Photoshop. Since Adobe went cloud only and non-purchase, I've been working hard to put together workflows which don't include any Adobe and work on 10.6 forward. Adobe Lightroom 4 (last version which runs on 10.6) already forces one to convert originals to DNG (data loss) to be able to use the latest cameras.

Keep reading Image Resizer Faceoff OS X: JPEGmini vs Adobe Photoshop vs PhotoBatcher vs ResizeMe