FavIcon from Pics

Create a favicon, iPod icon etc by uploading an image.

Nice Translator

Awesome, “interactive” translator. Translates to multiple languages at once, as you type.

Scissors

“This plugin adds cropping and resizing functionality to WordPress’ image upload and management dialogs. Scissors also allows automatic resizing of images when they are uploaded and supports watermarking of images. Additionally, images that are resized in the post editor are automatically resampled to the requested size using bilinear filtering when a post is saved.”

Syrinx

Super customizable and slick Twitter app for Mac, but requires OSX 10.5 (Leopard)

User Switching

Kinda cool plugin for switching between different WP users with a single click.

THRU YOU

Absolutely incredible mashup of Youtube videos. This guy takes a bunch of videos and creates awesome music, with impressive video to accompany it.

Freedom

“Freedom is an application that disables networking on an Apple computer for up to eight hours at a time. Freedom will free you from the distractions of the internet, allowing you time to code, write, or create. At the end of your selected offline period, Freedom re-enables your network, restoring everything as normal.”

Integrate WP, bbPress and symfony

Some instructions on integrating these things to use single sign-on, and all run in harmony.

Installing WordPress As A Subversion Checkout ( Or External ) In A Subdirectory

Best way to set up WordPress.

Sydney Region Web Industry

Google map showing web agencies in Sydney. Also a great example of how to generate a GMap with lots of markers on it

WPMU Power Tools

A couple of handy tools for managing a WPMU installation such as executing a PHP function (e.g. update_option() ) across all blogs.

WordPress PowerPoint Template

It is what it is.

Transfer

Cross-posting (WP –> WP) plugin that allows you to use one installation as the main one, and cross post to other installs via XMLRPC.

Store Locator

Pretty sweet WP plugin that allows you to store a set of locations, search through them, map them etc. Looks pretty thorough.

Startups in 13 Sentences

Awesome advice from Paul Graham about how to be successful in a startup.

Cross-Browser Inline-Block

How to achieve the equivalent of display: inline-block in all browsers with a few hacks and techniques. Nice.

ProjectManager

“This (WordPress) plugin is a datamanager for any recurrent datasets. It can be used to manage and list a DVD collection, to to present portraits (e.g. athlets of a team), simple tabular calendar or anything you can think of.”

Readernaut: Beau Lebens

My homepage on Readernaut, a much sexier book-tracking site than GoodReads.

Supple Forms

WP plugin that allows you to create data entry forms that can be used on the Post/Page editing UI. Sounds very cool for customized systems.

Things you may not know about jQuery

Awesome list of tips for harnessing some of the hidden power of jQuery.

Papers for iPhone

Pretty slick looking PDF/academic papers viewer/library/manager for iPhone.

TV Library 0.1

Get hulu content back on boxee, despite it being “removed”

CloudContacts

“The CloudContacts service takes your business cards and puts them to use! After we receive the cards, we turn them into contacts you can import into your email application, you can view your contacts online and export the contacts in a variety of formats.”

Prologuer Bot v0.2

XMPP/Jabber bot that allows you to interact with a WordPress blog (esp with Prologue them installed).

SQLEditor for Mac OS X

Visual editor that allows you to diagram a DB and generate the code required to actually create it.

MakeItLink

PHP library extracted from WordPress to handle automatically creating HTML links within a block of text.

TDO Tag Fixes

Plugin that allows you (amongst other things) to get a feed/page in WordPress that shows you all posts tagged with a specific tag (or set of tags) *within a certain category*.

AnchorFree

IP and traffic masking software for Mac. Watch hulu/Pandora from overseas and protect yourself from other users on Wifi APs.

Codestyling Localization

Powerful-sounding plugin to help with the translation process of plugins. It plugs into wp-admin and then allows you to load up what needs translating from another plugin.

Postbox

Pretty innovative-looking email client for Mac/Windows. Based on Mozilla tech. Includes ability to annotate emails (finally!)

11 Facebook App Dev Tips

Some good tips and tricks for developing FB apps.

Selenium

“Selenium is a suite of tools to automate web app testing across many platforms. “

WPtouch iPhone Theme

Badass iPhone/iPod Touch theme for WordPress blogs. Looks very thorough and very slick. Very “iPhone-y”

WireIt

A JavaScript wiring library for building a UI like Yahoo Pipes.

jQuery Date Range Picker

Awesome selection widget that allows you to enter all sorts of custom date ranges and specialized date selections. Very slick implementation.

BREAKOUT!

“What if your office was a park? What if you could relocate your conference room to your favorite sidewalk cafe? What if you could work from your bike while getting fresh air and exercise?”

Toodledo

Another online todo/task manager.

SyntaxHighlighter

Syntax highlighting class developed completely in JS. Pretty impressive.

Working out of a ‘third place’

Article on the CafeWorking generation.

Singularity University

“Singularity University, based on the NASA Ames campus in Silicon Valley, is an interdisciplinary university whose mission is to assemble, educate and inspire a cadre of leaders who strive to understand and facilitate the development of exponentially advancing technologies (bio, nano, info, AI, etc.), and apply, focus and guide these tools to address humanity’s grand challenges.”

VirtualBox

Virtualization system for testing different platforms.

WP-Create

Nice shell script for creating a WordPress installation direct from SVN.

Hacker Dojo

New coworking space being planned/set up on the peninsula here in the Bay Area (South San Francisco).

XUL

XUL reference at the Mozilla developer center. Very handy for developing Firefox extensions.

Coworking in San Francisco

San Francisco coworking list on the coworking wiki.

On The Job 3

“Time & Expense Tracking and Invoicing for Mac OS X”

Sequel Pro

Very slick looking MySQL management app, but only for OSX 10.5.

Elegant Themes

Premium WordPress theme provider. $19.95 per year for access to all of their themes with updates and any new ones. They have some very slick ones.

How to develop a Firefox extension

Sweet tutorial breaking down the steps involved in writing a Firefox plugin/extension.

HTTP Client

“A Mac OS X Leopard developer tool for debugging HTTP services by graphically creating & inspecting complex HTTP messages.”

NetFlix Origami

“NetFlix tear-off flaps are sturdy, colorful, and perfect for origami and paper airplanes, so don’t just toss those wrappers into the recycling bin.”

IETester

“IETester is a free WebBrowser that allows you to have the rendering and javascript engines of IE8 beta 2, IE7 IE 6 and IE5.5 on Vista and XP, as well as the installed IE in the same process.”

How to build a Firefox extension

List of resources and details on how to get started building simple FF extensions, care of LifeHacker.

SUMO Paint

“Online Image Editor”. It’s like Photoshop, on the web.

xSort

“a free card sorting application for Mac OS X”

CSSTidy

“CSSTidy is an opensource CSS parser and optimiser.”

The Invoice Machine

Pretty slick online invoicing and basic project/time management tool.

wpSearch

WordPress search engine based on Lucene. Sounds pretty solid.

ExpanDrive

“Ridiculously simple SFTP and FTP drive access on your Mac.” Allows you to mount a drive via S/FTP and have it act as if it were local storage.

Comindwork

Basecamp on steroids. Pretty decent system made by Russians. Quite technical, but takes a lot of inspiration from Basecamp.

ljArchive

“ljArchive is a tool for downloading, browsing, and analyzing journal entries and comments from LiveJournal (or LiveJournal clones).”

BackType

Find, Follow and Share Comments

LJ Client API

The official documentation for the LiveJournal API.

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.