“Simple shell utility to convert html to pdf using the webkit rendering engine, and qt.”

Document and receipt scanning software for Mac. Includes OCR on receipts for expense reports and a bunch of other cool features.

Script that allows you to search/replace values in your WP database, even within serialized strings.

Huge list of WordPress tips, with code samples where appropriate.

Extensive tutorial on tuning PHP for performance on the system level (not just coding tips).

An awesome plugin for TextMate that gives you a really powerful “abbreviation” syntax for writing blocks of HTML and CSS really quickly.

A web service for testing web services. Performs HTTP requests and gives you the full request/response. Allows you to save requests etc

Plugin to add a simple JSON-based API to a WordPress installation. Allows for all sorts of potential AJAX loveliness.

“Notify.io is your global web notification system. Real-time notifications of events from the web, under your control.” Hooks into Growl and other notification systems, accepts triggers via Web Hooks and Comet Stream

The anatomy of beautiful HTML. Covers all the guidelines and concepts that add up to good HTML coding.

Extensive geo data for place names and significant locations around the world. Data files provided by Yahoo with a Creative Commons license

“Closure Compiler is a JavaScript optimizer that compiles web apps down into compact, high-performance JavaScript code. The compiler removes dead code, then rewrites and minimizes what’s left so that it will run fast on browsers’ JavaScript …

Chris Messina/Jyri Engestrom’s great manifesto of the people-centric/real-time web, based on portable identity and open standards.

Good instructions (that acutally work!) with screenshots for getting a Microsoft VPC image running on VirtualBox.

Images provided by MS for testing compatibility with IE8 etc. Includes XP and Vista currently, with IE6-8. Compatible with VirtualBox with some tinkering.

Using the freely available images provided by Microsoft for testing purposes, just getting them to work in VirtualBox rather than Virtual PC.

Could this finally be what I’ve been looking for? A generic XML-parsing library, written in PHP, which handles namespaces and attributes reasonably elegantly?

“coreylib is a PHP library for accessing Web service APIs like Twitter. You can use coreylib to explore APIs, cache their content, create mash-ups, and style the output.”

Post about how Google pays people to use their products/platforms through revshare deals, turning it into a revenue generator (not a cost) to choose Google over a competitor.

Awesome website with all sorts of information on spending time in Chile, including Spanish classes and accomodation.

Awesome manbag from Maxpedition. Single-shoulder carry, loads of space, and will work for concealed weapon carry as well if you’re into that kind of thing.

“Charles is an HTTP proxy / HTTP monitor / Reverse Proxy that enables a developer to view all of the HTTP and SSL / HTTPS traffic between their machine and the Internet. This includes requests, responses and the HTTP headers (which contain …

Writeup from Balsamiq on the tools they use in the daily operation of their technology-heavy startup.

“PHP.JS is an open source project in which we try to port PHP functions to JavaScript. By including the PHP.JS library in your own projects, you can use your favorite PHP functions client-side.”

UX guy from Drupal that I spoke a lot with at GSoC Mentor’s Summit, 2009.

Pretty awesome looking news aggregator based on Drupal.

From Anderson Cooper

“The Internet Identity Workshop focuses on user-centric identity and trying to solve the technical challenge of how people can manage their own identity across the range of websites, services, companies and organizations that they belong …

“This page holds ideas for people who maintain or build websites on things they can do now to support Data Portability.”

Laptop screen protector cloths and accessories.

“Isolator is a small menu bar application that helps you concentrate. When you’re working on a document, and don’t want to be distracted, turn on Isolator. It will cover up your desktop and all the icons on it, as well as the windows of all …

Pretty slick implementation of a standalone biometric door lock. Battery powered, 99 users, fingerprint scan.

Includes link to OneWorld members as well. Frequent Flier programs so you can pick the right airline to get the best grouping of points.

Set of very nicely-designed and relatively consistent social media icons. Perfect for lifestreams/activity streams.

“Without much conscious thought, most of us have built identities across the web. We’ve filled in profiles, uploaded photos, videos, reviews and bookmarks. The Ident Engine uses semantic web API’s to bring together these web footprints.”

Neat blog written by a woman in San Francisco. All sorts of interesting scientific approaches to eating well and living a more healthy lifestyle.

Cool site that gives you a 1-screen summary of all the details you often need to provide tech-support to someone (browser/OS/resolution/etc)