jbackup.pl

Perl script that demonstrates “best practices” when downloading your entire LiveJournal blog.

LiveJournal Export

PHP version of a script to get a copy of all of your LiveJournal posts as local XML files.

ljdump

Python script to dump the contents of your LiveJournal blog.

Tweetbacks Plugin for WordPress

Adds Tweets about a post as comments within WordPress. Sounds like a piece of the puzzle that I was contemplating with pulling comments from all the other silos back to your WP install.

jQuery Edit In Place (JEIP)

Sweet jQuery plugin that provides edit in place functionality a la Flickr. Very nicely done and flexible.

Peter’s Collaboration E-mails

Cool plugin for multi-user blogs where editorial workflow is important. Sets up emails for notifications to editors that there are drafts waiting, etc.

Prologue Theme

The homepage for the WordPress theme that makes WP act like a group Twitter/Yammer/Present.ly.

2009: Products I Can’t Live Without

Mike Arrington’s list of web services and technologies that he uses daily.

Smooth Image Resizing in IE

Apparently Internet Explorer uses a stupid default resizing method, which causes images to pixelate when they are made smaller via HTML. Add this CSS extension to smooth things out.

ZOHO Projects Login

Yet another online project management system. Very old-school feeling, like something Colin would like.

Toll Free Conference Call Services

Tim Ferriss’ choice for free conference call services.

Top 1000 WordPress Plugin Authors

Table of the top authors, generated from the data supplied via the Plugins API.

The Ultimate Guide to Motivation

Zen Habits post on getting and maintaining motivation. Lots of good points.

ClientSpot

“Small business project collaboration, time tracking, and data management made easy.” Pretty basic, old-school system for managing projects. Looks similar to PCS.

Burden Butcher

Pretty slick Project/Task manager for freelancers. It’s aimed at providing a single person (freelancer) with a centralized tool for managing the whole process of running projects (planning, working, invoicing). Really quite cool.

Rypple

Interesting online feedback/review tool to replace those useless annual performance review sessions. Allows you to ask anonymous questions of your co-workers, clients, etc and get their feedback constantly.

Cordarounds

Pretty awesome, hand-made corduroy pants where the cord goes horizontal. They also make some sweet “bike to work” pants (with reflectors) and other neat things.

psd 2 CSS Online

Interesting tool that claims to be able to take a PSD and convert it into CSS/XHTML, including jQuery for some features and do it all, automatically.

sfZendOpenIdPlugin

OpenID authentication for sfGuardPlugin

sfPropelTextOutputBehaviorPlugin

sfPropelTextOutputBehaviorPlugin is a symfony plugin that converts objects to different output formats: XML, JSON

sfPropelActAsTaggableBehaviorPlugin

This behavior permits to attach tags to Propel objects. It includes tag-clouds generation and helpers to display these clouds.

sfPropelActAsStarredBehaviorPlugin

star propel objects ala Gmail star

sfPropelActAsSluggableBehaviorPlugin

This sfPropelActAsSluggableBehavior plugin that automates the generation of ‘slugs’ based on the return value of a model method.

sfPropelActAsSignableBehaviorPlugin

Adds support for “created_by”, “updated_by” and “deleted_by” columns in your model

Nokia iSync

Nokia page with details on how to sync Nokia phones via Apple’s iSync app on Macs.

MobileAwesomeness

Gallery/showcase of cool design and functionality for mobile devices. Very nice.

PolyPage

Interesting jQuery plugin that allows you to quickly and easily build prototype pages that include different “states” (logged in/not, etc) and add notes. Provides a simple, toggle-based UI to access all elements on a single page and cookie based tracking of your selected state across pages.

Poladroid

Really cool app that turns photos into old-style Polaroid photos. Has a very funky interface/UI where you wait for the photo to develop and then stop it at a certain moment, so you always get different outputs.

77 Ways to Learn Faster, Deeper, and Better

Breakdown of techniques, approaches etc that can help you learn things more effectively.

Last.fm Records

WP plugin to display the album artwork for recent tracks etc from Last.fm on your site. Also available as a sweetcron plugin/hack.

Tarzan

“A fast, powerful PHP toolkit for building web applications with Amazon Web Services.” Gives you a standardized toolkit to access all the functionality of the APIs for managing and working with AWS.

Kindling

A new, interesting way of managing/capturing ideas within an organization. Basically an internal Digg for ideas/suggestions.

Multicolr Search Lab

Very cool tool that allows you to find pictures on Flickr by clicking color swatches. Based off 10 million of the most interesting pictures that are Creative Commons licensed.

15 CSS Tricks That Must be Learned

Good collection of some more advanced (and some not so) CSS tricks and techniques.

Build Scalable Web 2.0 Sites with Ubuntu, Symfony, and Lighttpd

Pretty good article covering the installation and set up of the entire stack, specifically targeted at symfony and performance.

Atomeet

Neat, lightweight online invitations system.

100+ More Ways to Organize Your Life

Nice list of todo list, organization, gtd, file management etc tools for organizing pretty much everything.

Snipplr

Social code snippet repository.

freckle

Pretty slick-looking time-tracking web-app. Starts at $24 a month though!

24 ways

“web design and development articles and tutorials for advent”

Font Matrix

Awesome matrix showing which fonts are installed on which OSs, with which software etc etc.

Soocial

“Soocial provides a one address book solution to contact management. No matter where you add or change a contact, it will be changed in your other connected devices or web applications.”

Challenge/Response

Cool plugin for Adium that requires people to answer a challenge question before their message is delivered to you (if they’re not already on your contact list). Should block most IM-Spam.

Browser Safe Fonts

Good chart showing fonts common between platforms and their font-family.

Airport Wireless Internet Access Guide

Comprehensive list of airports that have wifi including which ones are free, paid, etc.

AwayFind

Interesting online app to supplement your email and help with routing important stuff directly to you via SMS etc. Relies on people being able to prioritize for you though.

Carrington Theme

A heavily modified “base” theme for WordPress which adds all sorts of granular control and powerful features. Built by Crowd Favorite (Alex King).

jQuery Corners

Plugin for jQuery that handles rounding corners via JS (with anti-aliasing) for browsers that don’t have their own extensions available for it.