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
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
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
Toll Free Conference Call Services
Tim Ferriss’ choice for free conference call services.

New Year’s Eve 2008
New Year’s Eve 2008
Everyone was there – even the Sign Guy
Posted on Flickr 9:32 pm, December 31, 2008


Top 1000 WordPress Plugin Authors
Top 1000 WordPress Plugin Authors
Table of the top authors, generated from the data supplied via the Plugins API.
The Ultimate Guide to Motivation
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.


Digg Gives You A Headache
Digg Gives You A Headache
This is part of the line-up of employee perks at the Digg offices in SF.
Posted on Flickr 4:07 pm, December 19, 2008

Jet Stream

Parking Meter
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.

Uphill





Mini Christmas
sfZendOpenIdPlugin
OpenID authentication for sfGuardPlugin
sfPropelTextOutputBehaviorPlugin
sfPropelTextOutputBehaviorPlugin
sfPropelTextOutputBehaviorPlugin is a symfony plugin that converts objects to different output formats: XML, JSON
sfPropelActAsTaggableBehaviorPlugin
sfPropelActAsTaggableBehaviorPlugin
This behavior permits to attach tags to Propel objects. It includes tag-clouds generation and helpers to display these clouds.
sfPropelActAsSluggableBehaviorPlugin
sfPropelActAsSluggableBehaviorPlugin
This sfPropelActAsSluggableBehavior plugin that automates the generation of ‘slugs’ based on the return value of a model method.
sfPropelActAsSignableBehaviorPlugin
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
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
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
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
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.

Another Solid Day in the Markets
Another Solid Day in the Markets
Taken from finance.google.com on 2008-11-20
Posted on Flickr 9:10 am, November 20, 2008
Airport Wireless Internet Access Guide
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.

Twitter / Suspended
Twitter / Suspended
That’s the first time I’ve seen that one. Cool.
Posted on Flickr 10:50 am, November 14, 2008

Ben Folds @ The Warfield
Ben Folds @ The Warfield
Ben Folds, playing at the Warfield in San Francisco, 2008-11-13
Posted on Flickr 8:08 pm, November 13, 2008

Ben Folds @ The Warfield
Ben Folds @ The Warfield
Ben Folds, playing at the Warfield in San Francisco, 2008-11-13
Posted on Flickr 7:53 pm, November 13, 2008

Ben Folds @ The Warfield
Ben Folds @ The Warfield
Ben Folds, playing at the Warfield in San Francisco, 2008-11-13
Posted on Flickr 7:49 pm, November 13, 2008