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I spent a few hours walking around Auckland since I had a 9-hour layover.
Very interesting financial analysis of the value of the bigger blogs out there.247wallst.com
Long list of quick fixes for your website.insidecrm.com
Small app for Mac that allows you to simulate color-blindness while you’re designing/working on something.colororacle.cartography.ch
Some good tips on what to include in a business plan, and characteristics that make for a successful company.sequoiacap.com
“allows client applications to view and update Contacts content in the form of Google Data API feeds. You can request a list of a user’s contacts, edit or delete content in an existing contact, and query the content in an existing contact.”code.google.com
Nice alternate way of doing some rounded corners across multiple sections without extra code.cssglobe.com
Best function in the comments for quickly and cleanly generated a version 4 unique id.us2.php.net
Great list with some plugins to turn WP into more of a CMS.blueprintds.com
“This plugin adds 16 plugins to TinyMCE: Advanced hr, Advanced Image, Advanced Link, Context Menu, Emotions (Smilies), Full Screen, IESpell, Layer, Media, Nonbreaking, Print, Search and Replace, Style, Table, Visual Characters and XHTML …wordpress.org
A free video player that’s super customizable. Looks very cool.flowplayer.org
A pretty thorough and well-organized guide to all manner of grammar-related topics.grammar.ccc.commnet.edu
Really interesting-sounding database product that is document based, and sounds similar to AWS’ SimpleDBcouchdb.org
Interesting little project that provides some more advanced “database-like” handling of JS objects.taffydb.com
Simple plugin for WP that allows you to manage basic banner ads etc within your templates and posts.thesandbox.wordpress.com
Interesting article on using the web and a specific persona to build reputation as an expert.doshdosh.com
“WP-o-Matic makes autoblogging a snap by automatically creating posts from the RSS/Atom feeds you choose, which are organized into campaigns.”devthought.com
Powerful feed plugin for WP. Includes support for multifeeds. Uses SimplePie as the feed parsing backend.simplepie.org
Really good, simple steps to improve your ability to delegate.elance.com
“This is a search plugin for WordPress MU (WPMU) that enables the default search box to search across all WPMU blogs.” Uses MySQL Views instead of some weird data compilation process.jason.ungos.com
The offical Google project for BuddyPress, the social version of WPMU.code.google.com
In amongst some work that I’ve been doing recently, and looking at my own work habits and trends, I realized that something super-useful to have would be a very accessible “microcontent storage system” where you would be able to store small snippets of information, tag them, have them fully-indexed and searchable using …
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From the San Francisco Conservatory of Flowers, in Golden Gate Park.
Really cool aggregator that provides charts showing prices for surrounding times, comparisons between heaps of providers etc.kayak.com
A free Skype replacement with calling in and out, IM, etc. Pretty sweet.gizmoproject.com
“Finally, an easy way to record Skype calls and podcast interviews. Call Recorder is an add-on for Skype which automatically transforms your audio or video calls into QuickTime movies.”ecamm.com
Not much feedback, but cheap and could be worth a shot. $3.33 ph. Works through an affiliate.odesk.com
Good technical background, skills with Visio etc. Research and documentation.odesk.com
Targeting research and content writing. $3.33 ph. Masters in BioChem!odesk.com
Nisha V. – Virtual Assistant, Data entry, Administration and Internet Research – Freelance Data Entry Professional, India – oDeskodesk.com
Bored Army wife with kids, looking for work. US-based, only $5.56 per hour.odesk.com
Very high scores on all sorts of tests, including English skills. Only $6.67 per hour.odesk.com
Web-based social bookmarking system. Allows multiple users to store, share and tag their favourite links online.sourceforge.net
Online service with options like eFax. Better pricing and cooler design.faxitnice.com
Some tips on creating a page to put on your site to get you hired.anywired.com
A massive guide on the entire concept of perpetual travel.perpetualtravel.com
Turn your camera phone into a scanner, copier, and fax. Clean photos of documents, whiteboards and business cards. Extract any text and contact information. Store, search and share online.scanr.com
Virtual phone assistant, automated call systems etc. Conference calls, faxing, all sorts of things.onebox.com
Online scrapbooking and journaling for parents and families. Allows you to invite multiple people to contribute to a single book.mybabyourbaby.com
Installation details for making money etc from SmartLinks on your blog.adaptiveblue.com
Pretty hardcore implementation of something similar to PlayPen. Provides a bunch of layouts, font options, skins etc.semiologic.com
Interesting “memory device” that has awesome hand writing recognition, can read pictures etc, and then provides search so you can find things easily.preview.evernote.com
Subpage Listing allows you to take full advantage of WordPress Pages’ hierarchy by generating a navigational tree of the pages below them (subpages).wordpress.org
“The Address Book Reader returns the names and email addresses of the contacts in a webmail address book.” Simple API for loading people’s address books and then using that for invites etc.rapleaf.com
This plugin provides you with a template tag for your archives page, which presents navigating the archives in a unique way. It has a row for each year with posts, and every month in that year with posts has a link to the month.wordpress.org
WordPress plugin that just adds fulltext indexing to try to improve the built in search system.semiologic.com
Allows you to insert (and execute) PHP code within WordPress Pages and Posts.bluesome.net
Simple search log analysis for WordPress, part of a better search experience.thunderguy.com
Gives you an excerpt from matches on the search engine in WP. Highlights the words you searched for so that you can give better feedback to users.scott.yang.id.au
Plugin for WP from an open source consulting firm that offers some more powerful options for the default search system.zirona.com
More translation options than Google, can be helpful in figuring out what people are saying online.tranexp.com
Hiding portions of an image to create a thumbnail, then showing the whole thing, in-place, when rolled over.cssglobe.com
Here is the list of 10 hand picked CSS hacks and tricks which can help you in your CSS code and also save some time.stylizedweb.com
The GeoNames geographical database contains over eight million geographical names and consists of 6.5 million unique features whereof 2.2 million populated places and 1.8 million alternate names.geonames.org
Cool site that gives full-page screenshots of a website. Seems to be pretty responsive for now.superscreenshot.com
Sweet zooming effect to go from a small image to a large version within the page (like Apple uses).cabel.name
Good tutorial on using svnX to manage the process of getting your repo set up in the WP Plugins Repo.weblogtoolscollection.com
Seems to be the most detailed/best set of instructions for handling the process.halvorsen.org
Apparently allows you to modify the category assignments for lots of posts at once in WP.iqsoftware.biz
we have put together an enormous list of ideas, ranging from ones that take 10 seconds to 10 days. There’s something for everyone to try and I guarantee there will be plenty of things you never thought of.freelanceswitch.com
Custom Write Panel provides the functionality to create individual write panels similar to “Write Post” panel only with customized input fields. This plugin allows adding new input fields with a specific type.wordpress.org
Good CSS resetting stylesheet to start with a consistent, cross-browser base-line.meyerweb.com
APML allows users to share their own personal Attention Profile in much the same way that OPML allows the exchange of reading lists between News Readers.apml.org
FeedWordPress is an Atom/RSS aggregator that syndicates content from feeds that you choose into WP; if you syndicate several feeds then you can use WordPress’s posts database and templating engine as the back-end of an aggregation (planet) …projects.radgeek.com
Drop files into attachment boxes instead of browse for them or type in the filename. Drop multiple files and fill all the entries.addons.mozilla.org
This document covers mode switching as it applies to Firefox and other Gecko-based browsers, Safari and other WebKit-based browsers, Opera, Konqueror, Internet Explorer for Mac and Internet Explorer for Windows and browsers that embed IE.hsivonen.iki.fi
Quick tutorial on how to write a Facebook App in PHPdigital-web.com
Yet another LightBox implementation. This one uses no framework in particular, but “plays nice” with a bunch of them if you’d like.mjijackson.com
GeekTool is a PrefPane (System Preferences module) for Panther or Tiger to show system logs, unix commands output, or images (i.e. from the internet) on your desktop (or even in front of all windows).projects.tynsoe.org
Online service where you just enter your number and a message, and it will call you at the time you set, then read back your message to youwakerupper.com
“Shows a customizable message above every post that is older than a given number of months. The number of months, the layout for the message and the message itself set via a options-page.”jacobfresco.nl
Alleged instructions for installing GPSd on Mac. DarwinPorts fails for me though.gpsd.darwinports.com
“Most people eat to lose weight, get healthy and build muscle. There are some people, however, who snack correctly in order to enhance their productivity.”lifehack.org
Very cool JS effect to load a larger version of an image.officesnapshots.com
A completely web-based UI for managing Transmission online. Looks just like Transmission!clutchbt.com
Downloads of the standalone versions of older copies of IE.browsers.evolt.org
Simple service that uploads your file to any other “big file” upload system (or lots of them).tinyload.com
Might be worth looking into this to see what features are useful.system13.org
Cool idea for versioning static HTML documents using a small javascript embed.wait-till-i.com