Link directly into triggering actions in MSN IM / Windows Live Messenger

“This little beautifier will reformat and reindent bookmarklets, ugly javascript, unpack scripts packed by the popular Dean Edward’s packer, as well as deobfuscate scripts processed by javascriptobfuscator.com.”

“Quick and simple image placeholders”. Retrieve a dynamically generated image to use in mockups etc based on dimensions included in a URL.

“Infochimps is an open catalog and marketplace for the world’s data. You can share, sell, curate, and download data about anything and everything.”

Perl script that scans a MySQL install and suggests different settings that might be more optimized for its load profile.

WordPress plugin that adds some prompts for users to signup for Gravatar if their email doesn’t resolve to one.

“MagicPrefs is a free menubar and preference pane application for OSX which aims to improve the functionality and configuration options of the Apple Magic Mouse.”

“a simple hosts file manager for Mac OS X Leopard. It enables to edit hosts files and switch between them.”

Torrents of TV shows

A nice step-by step (with some gotchas) tutorial on PuSH-enabling a feed client.

“GroupTweet turns a standard Twitter account into a group communication hub where members can post updates to everyone in the group using direct messages.”

WS has some really good recipes for classic, delicious dishes.

“Sexy forms with jQuery”

“Information Cards are personal digital identities that people can use online.”

“This document defines Extensible Resource Descriptor (XRD), a simple generic format for describing resources.”

“This document defines a lightweight, robust mechanism for digitally signing nearly arbitrary messages, along with a basic public key infrastructure for discovering the signing keys.”

“This document presents an extension that allows activities on social objects to be expressed within the Atom Syndication Format.”

“This document presents a base set of Object types and Verbs for use with Atom Activity Extensions.”

“This document presents an extension to the Atom Syndication Format that defines how media objects such as photos and videos might be represented in Atom and allows additional metadata to be published about linked media representations.”

“The Portable Contacts specification is designed to make it easier for developers to give their users a secure way to access the address books and friends lists they have built up all over the web.”

Cool service that checks on the availability of different web services APIs.

List of the ‘scope’ options available when requesting OAuth tokens for accessing Google APIs

Complete listing of Google services with APIs, linking to developer guides, client libraries and references where available.

Pretty slick tool from Google for tinkering with OAuth requests on their properties.

“Online Business Tips from Successful Entrepreneurs”

Cross-network friend finding service.

Handles AuthSub, requests, etc. Includes a sample application that the developer built for working with GCal.

“phpQuery is a server-side, chainable, CSS3 selector driven Document Object Model (DOM) API based on jQuery JavaScript Library.”

“Create and generate your own mobile phone code, sema code, QR code and DataMartix code.”

“A WordPress plugin which accepts comments via the Salmon protocol.”

Complete book about OSS, how to manage community, etc etc.

Interesting looking Twitter app that seems quite powerful. Requires OSX 10.6.

Quick tutorial on how to use FirePHP for basic PHP debugging with Firebug.

Best source for information on a lot of open web and identity technologies.

Really well-executed group-scheduling tool