The Twenty-Five Most Valuable Blogs

Very interesting financial analysis of the value of the bigger blogs out there.

101 Five-Minute Fixes to Incrementally Improve Your Web Site

Long list of quick fixes for your website.

Color Oracle

Small app for Mac that allows you to simulate color-blindness while you’re designing/working on something.

Sequoia Tips to Submit A Business Plan

Some good tips on what to include in a business plan, and characteristics that make for a successful company.

Contacts Data API

“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.”

3 Simple Steps in Coding a Rounded Corners Layout

Nice alternate way of doing some rounded corners across multiple sections without extra code.

PHP UUID Function

Best function in the comments for quickly and cleanly generated a version 4 unique id.

Top 10 WordPress CMS Plugins

Great list with some plugins to turn WP into more of a CMS.

TinyMCE Advanced (WP Plugin)

“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 Extras.”

Flowplayer | Flash Video Player for the Web

A free video player that’s super customizable. Looks very cool.

Guide to Grammar and Writing

A pretty thorough and well-organized guide to all manner of grammar-related topics.

CouchDb Project Website

Really interesting-sounding database product that is document based, and sounds similar to AWS’ SimpleDB

Taffy DB : A JavaScript database for your browser

Interesting little project that provides some more advanced “database-like” handling of JS objects.

WPAds

Simple plugin for WP that allows you to manage basic banner ads etc within your templates and posts.

How to Use the Web to Build A Powerful Reputation In Any Industry

Interesting article on using the web and a specific persona to build reputation as an expert.

pinvoke – Icons and pixel fonts

Awesome little icons. Free download.

WP-o-Matic. The WordPress RSS Agreggator

“WP-o-Matic makes autoblogging a snap by automatically creating posts from the RSS/Atom feeds you choose, which are organized into campaigns.”

SimplePie Plugin for WordPress

Powerful feed plugin for WP. Includes support for multifeeds. Uses SimplePie as the feed parsing backend.

Top Tips to Help You Delegate | Elance

Really good, simple steps to improve your ability to delegate.

One Search WPMU Plugin | Experiments & Expressions

“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.

Kayak.com – Cheap Flights, Airline Tickets, Cheap Airfare & Discount Travel Deals

Really cool aggregator that provides charts showing prices for surrounding times, comparisons between heaps of providers etc.

Gizmo – A free phone for your computer

A free Skype replacement with calling in and out, IM, etc. Pretty sweet.

Call Recorder for Skype – Automatically Record Skype Calls On Your Mac

“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.”

Meenu G. – Data Entry/ Internet Research – Mercury Infotech Consultant, India – oDesk

Not much feedback, but cheap and could be worth a shot. $3.33 ph. Works through an affiliate.

Gregory G. – Internet Research, Administrative Support, Data Entry,MS-Access, Visio – Freelance Data Entry Professional, Qatar – oDesk

Good technical background, skills with Visio etc. Research and documentation.

Huma S. – M.Sc. Biochemistry, Researcher, Data Entry – Freelance Technical Writer, Pakistan – oDesk

Targeting research and content writing. $3.33 ph. Masters in BioChem!

Nisha V. – Virtual Assistant , Data entry, Administration and Internet Research – Freelance Data Entry Professional, India – oDesk

Educated, mediocre English, seems very skilled. $5.56 ph. Researcher

Char F. – Data Entry & Administrative Support–Love to type & do tedious jobs! – Freelance Data Entry Professional, United States – oDesk

Bored Army wife with kids, looking for work. US-based, only $5.56 per hour.

Philip M. – EXPERIENCED and RELIABLE Administrative Support Provider – Freelance Data Entry Professional, Macedonia – oDesk

Very high scores on all sorts of tests, including English skills. Only $6.67 per hour.

Scuttle

Web-based social bookmarking system. Allows multiple users to store, share and tag their favourite links online.

Common Ports

Massive list of the common uses for port numbers in networking.

FaxIt Nice Internet Fax Machine – No Monthly Fees

Online service with options like eFax. Better pricing and cooler design.

Create an Automatic Flow of Work With a ‘Hire Me’ Page

Some tips on creating a page to put on your site to get you hired.

Round-The-World Travel Guide

A massive guide on the entire concept of perpetual travel.

Scan, copy and fax with your camera phone or digital camera

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.

The Onebox Receptionist Virtual Phone System

Virtual phone assistant, automated call systems etc. Conference calls, faxing, all sorts of things.

MyBabyOurBaby.com

Online scrapbooking and journaling for parents and families. Allows you to invite multiple people to contribute to a single book.

AdaptiveBlue – Install SmartLinks on your Blog

Installation details for making money etc from SmartLinks on your blog.

Semiologic SEM Theme

Pretty hardcore implementation of something similar to PlayPen. Provides a bunch of layouts, font options, skins etc.

Welcome to Evernote

Interesting “memory device” that has awesome hand writing recognition, can read pictures etc, and then provides search so you can find things easily.

Thumbtack Press · So Hip it Hurts

Awesome prints from pop/modern artists.

Subpage Listing « WordPress Plugins

Subpage Listing allows you to take full advantage of WordPress Pages’ hierarchy by generating a navigational tree of the pages below them (subpages).

Rapleaf: Reputation Lookup and Email Search

“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.

Search Reloaded

WordPress plugin that just adds fulltext indexing to try to improve the built in search system.

Search Meter: a WordPress plugin

Simple search log analysis for WordPress, part of a better search experience.

Search Excerpt WordPress Plugin

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.

Create Resizing Thumbnails Using Overflow Property | Css Globe

Hiding portions of an image to create a thumbnail, then showing the whole thing, in-place, when rolled over.

10 best CSS hacks | StylizedWeb.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.

GeoNames webservice and data download

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.

Super Screenshot!

Cool site that gives full-page screenshots of a website. Seems to be pretty responsive for now.

FancyZoom 1.1

Sweet zooming effect to go from a small image to a large version within the page (like Apple uses).

Adding Your Plugin to WP Extend Plugins With a Mac

Good tutorial on using svnX to manage the process of getting your repo set up in the WP Plugins Repo.

Migrating old Blosxom content to WordPress

Seems to be the most detailed/best set of instructions for handling the process.

Migrating from Blosxom to WordPress

Bulk Category Manager for WP

Apparently allows you to modify the category assignments for lots of posts at once in WP.

101 Ideas to Get More Freelance Work and Generate New Client Leads – FreelanceSwitch – The Freelance Blog

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.

Custom Write Panel « WordPress Plugins

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.

Eric’s Archived Thoughts: Resetting Again

Good CSS resetting stylesheet to start with a consistent, cross-browser base-line.

APML – Attention Profiling Mark-up Language: The open standard for Attention Metadata

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.

FeedWordPress

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) website.

dragdropupload :: Firefox Add-ons

Drop files into attachment boxes instead of browse for them or type in the filename. Drop multiple files and fill all the entries.

Activating Browser Modes with Doctype

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.

How To Build A Facebook Application – Digital Web Magazine

Quick tutorial on how to write a Facebook App in PHP

Shadowbox.js Media Viewer

Yet another LightBox implementation. This one uses no framework in particular, but “plays nice” with a bunch of them if you’d like.

GeekTool – Text files on your desktop

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).

Wakerupper.com – Free Wake-up Calls and Telephone Reminders

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 you

OutOfDate Plugin

“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.”

gpsd version 2.30 for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard

Alleged instructions for installing GPSd on Mac. DarwinPorts fails for me though.

20 Foods To Snack On For Enhanced Productivity – Lifehack.org

“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.”

Highslide Photo enlarge effect

Very cool JS effect to load a larger version of an image.