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Shaun Inman has once again outdone himself by launching two new websites and an updated version of Mint on one day, and a Monday at that! I'm quite fond of the new shauninman.com design with a duotone palette and a date-based background color.

Screenshot of the shauninman.com pre-launch intro page

More important however is the new version of Shaun's website analytics tool Mint. For those who don't know Mint, its simple yet powerful interface features an overview of visits, referrers, popular pages and searches which can all be taken in at a glance on Mint's flexible dashboard. And with the help of third party Pepper — little extensions for the dashboard — Mint is even more powerful.

Speaking of Pepper (yes, that's both the singular and plural form), the second website launched by Shaun today is the Peppermill, the new place to download the Mint software, official Pepper, widgets and third party Pepper. This ensures, that Pepper developed by others can all be found in one single place, somewhat reminiscent of the Mozilla Extension room. As Shaun puts it:

Until today tracking down third-party Pepper involved checking the Pepper Development forum religiously or subscribing to Sam Brown’s Peppermint Tea. And there was always the chance that a developer’s site and Pepper would disappear.

In case you aren't convinced yet, there are some nice screencasts, screenshots and even a live demo on Shauns website. And what's best, Shaun somehow tricked inflation. The price for Mint 2 is still at the same US $30 (€ 23,-) it was before. And existing Mint licenses can be upgraded for only US $19 (€ 15,-). That's less than the price for two drinks around here, and believe me, it's worth those two drinks.

If you don't have your site Minted yet, you should definitely do so now — just take a look at the feature highlights. And if you already use Mint, did I tell you that Mint 2 is out? Because Mint 2 is out, you dinosaurs, you!