GreaseSpot

The documentation wiki for Greasemonkey. Lots of greasy monkey goodness.

Keyboard Events

Really thorough analysis of keyboard events and how they are handled via JavaScript in different browsers.

ManyBooks.net

Free eBooks for your PDA, iPhone, or eBook Reader (inc Kindle)

Managing multiple /etc/hosts files in Mac OS X

Post from Sam Bauers including a short script that allows you to manage your /etc/hosts file as a symlink to a collection of variable files.

Massively Parallel Procrastination

Guy who has some cool Kindle hacks, as well as some custom software for conversions etc.

Reversing Everything

Igor’s blog, contains a lot of Kindle hacks and mods.

Hack Your Kindle

“100+ Tips, Resources, and Tutorials to Read Better and Learn Faster”

How To: Surf Securely with an SSH Tunnel

Quick details on setting up your web traffic to go through an SSH tunnel.

Maatkit

“A toolkit that provides advanced functionality for MySQL”

The dotMobi WordPress Mobile Pack

“The dotMobi WordPress Mobile Pack is a complete toolkit from dotMobi to help mobilize your WordPress site and blog. It includes a mobile switcher to select themes based on the type of user that is visiting the site, a selection of mobile themes, extra widgets, device adaptation and a mobile administration panel to allow users to edit the site or write new posts when out and about.”

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PandoraJam

Awesome sounding app that allows Pandora to act like a native app on a Mac. Growl notifications, stream to Airport Express, rip songs to iTunes.

PocketMod

The Free Recyclable Personal Organizer. Includes a little wizard to create your own paper-based, folding organizer with all sorts of custom widgets.

Open Font Library

The Open Font Library hosts the cream of non-proprietary typeface designs. Individuals share their work here and benefit from collaborative contributions. Become a better type designer with input from our global community. Link in to Web Fonts! We host font files that you can directly link to from your sites.

The Hunt For Gollum

40 minute LotR movie, made by fans, for fans.

Fitbit

“Fitbit automatically tracks your fitness and sleep”

How to roll back commits to an earlier version of a repository in SVN

This is a nifty shortcut to using the N:M method. Rolls back the last committed version.

iui

iPhone UI library for developing web-based apps that look iPhone-ish.

flickredit

Java backup/editing utility for Flickr which also allows you to download all meta data (titles, descriptions etc) and store them within the image itself.

FullCalendar

“FullCalendar is a jQuery plugin that provides a full-sized, drag & drop calendar like the one below. It uses AJAX to fetch events on-the-fly for each month and is easily configured to use your own feed format (an extension is provided for Google Calendar). It is visually customizable and exposes hooks for user-triggered events (like clicking or dragging an event).”

CHDK Wiki

Firmware update for Canon cameras to unlock all sorts of additional functionality and features. Very cool.

Hackvertor

Encode/decode every type of encoding known to man via JavaScript.

Cutting Up the Founder’s Pie

Interesting post about how to divide up the ownership of a company between the founders.

Querious

“Viewing, searching, editing, importing, exporting, and structuring your data has never been so easy. With Querious, you can even open up raw CSV or Tab files in a spreadsheet-like document. Need to rename or reorder the columns? No problem. Searching for data is a breeze, and you can even convert the whole file to another format in a snap.”

Audit Trail Plugin

“Audit Trail is a plugin to keep track of what is going on inside your blog. It does this by recording certain actions (such as who logged in and when) and storing this information in the form of a log.”

WordPress CodeSniffer Standard

Checks your PHP code to see how well it conforms to the published WordPress Coding Standard.

PHP Quick Profiler

Neat “Firebug for PHP” profiler/debugger tool.

Appcelerator Titanium

“Titanium is the first open platform for building rich desktop applications.”

Why Programmers Suck at CSS Design

“give programmers some tricks and some advice in how to proceed to make their web pages look cleaner, more readable and, hopefully, more professional, elegant and original than before.”

Drizzle

“The Drizzle project is building a database optimized for Cloud and Net applications. It is being designed for massive concurrency on modern multi-cpu/core architecture. The code is originally derived from MySQL.”

10 Free Scripts to Create Your Own Url Shortening Service

Mostly PHP/MySQL, varying admin panels and features. Decent list.

Web Hooks

“User-defined HTTP callbacks for push, pipes and plugins”

Boks

“Boks is an AIR application (so it works on Windows, Mac and Linux) that provides a User Interface for Blueprint CSS’s framework. It’s been designed for those who think the Grid System is good but never really took the time to give it love. It handles grid configuration, baseline rhythm pimpin’, CSS (with or without compression) and grid.png export, HTML layout and much more goodie-goodie!”

RingCentral

“Flexible – Unify home and office with a single toll free number and advanced call forwarding Professional – Calls are answered and directed to virtual extensions by a professional auto-receptionist Connected – Virtual PBX provides powerful call management with time-of-day routing and answering rules”

Echodio

“Seamless iTunes Sync”. Drag and drop iTunes sync! Just drop your tracks into the Echodio playlist to synchronize tracks, tags and ratings across all your iTunes libraries.

HeadSpace2 SEO

Pretty extensive-sounding SEO (and a lot more) plugin for WP. Allows you to tweak all the usual SEO bits and pieces, plus handling tracking codes, import metadata from other plugins and tweak some performance options.

EtherPad

Realtime Collaborative Text Editing

Peter’s Library

All of the car books that Peter has, listed on Library Thing. Should get his account details so that I can easily export etc.

Optimal Workshop

Collection of tools for usability/IA/UX testing.

The Ultimate Website Launch Checklist

Nice list (available in PDF) to go through and check things off when launching a site.

15 Essential Checks Before Launching Your Website

Good macro list of things to check/do before launching a new website (or major revision).

Charles

Web Debugging Proxy | HTTP Monitor | HTTP Proxy | HTTPS/SSL Proxy | Reverse Proxy

How FriendFeed uses MySQL to store schema-less data

A post from one of the FF engineers about how they have a schema-less data store and then build separate indexes to allow for fast querying.

Drupal Visual Language Guide

This is a really well-prepared and professional style guide. It’s a great example of covering all of the visual elements of a complete online identity.

A Guide to Better Web-Working From Your iPhone

Great collection of productivity tools and apps for the iPhone. GSD

messagepub

Interesting looking messaging platform (SMS, email, Twitter, GTalk, AIM, Phone). Fully API-accessible, but billed 1c per credit (up to 10c per message!)

EditArea

“This editor is designed to edit souce code files in a textarea. The main goal is to allow text formatting, search and replace and real-time syntax highlight (for not too heavy text).”

WP-o-Matic

Pull the contents of a feed into a WordPress install and re-post the contents as real posts within your install. Easily abused, but might be good for internal “Planet” style sites.

Data Validation

Excellent reference of data validation/sanitation functions and approaches used in WordPress.

maemo.org

“Maemo is the development platform for Internet Tablets”

Yuuguu

Online Meetings, Online Presentations, Remote Teams and Remote Support. Mac, PC and Linux compat.

Styleneat

Pretty cool online tool that will take CSS input and clean it up in all sorts of ways including alphabetizing selectors and attributes and indenting collapsed, single-line statements to show DOM hierarchy

Rooms

Pretty awesome and full-featured looking IRC client for iPhone.

Flutter

Interesting-looking plugin for WordPress that allows you to set up custom Write panels and handle custom fields, file uploads etc in a pretty slick way. Also gives you Edit-in-Place for templates (hot).

WordPress Plugin Readme File Generator

Simple UI which makes it easier to write a WordPress Readme.txt file (for plugins).

hReview WordPress Plugin

Allows you to embed hReview compat reviews in your WordPress blog. Only WP2.5 compat tho.

Elgg.org

“powerful, professional social networking.” It’s a social network/community site in a box. LAMP stack. Nice.

LiarCard – Voice polygraph instantly detects lies your subjects voice.

“During the call, a heartbeat pulse is played in the background which only you will hear. When the called party is stressed about what is said then you’ll hear it beat quicker and then slow down again if they’re being truthful. A buzz is played when the called party is suspected of not telling the truth or is in an extreme state of mind.”

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13 Great WordPress Speed Tips & Tricks for MAX Performance

Some good tips and plugins for improving WordPress performance. Doesn’t cover installing a PHP opcode cache though(?)

TDO Tag Fixes

“This [wordpress] plugin is simply intended as an example of how to implement tag and category intersections.”

three20

Generic iPhone library of widgets and UIs that was used to build the Facebook app, and could be useful for all sorts of other apps as well.

WordPress Third Party Accounts Login Plugin

Gives the user shortcuts that prefill the OpenID box with the details appropriate to a number of different identity providers.

PHP Jabber Client

HowTo: Install OS X on the Mini9

Get a hackintosh install running on a Dell Mini 9 netbook. Hawtness.

Quick Lookup

Nice AJAX-powered tool for quickly looking up PHP, MySQL, JS and CSS functions etc from their respective references.