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Finally had a chance to read this. Very good; an Instapaper classic.

Allows you to always see the file's history and save file versions and get file versions without switching from the main Photoshop window.

A music content resolver service - run it on every computer you use, and you'll be able to listen to all the songs you would otherwise be able to find manually by searching though all your computers, hard disks, online services, and more.

Hosted, accessible CMS solution from Nomensa.

"Hopefully one day Twitter will stop growing stupidly fast and their engineers can spend some time, you know, adding features like exposing favourites (which might even help eliminate the scourges of “retweeting” and trending topics.) I’m not holding my breath, though." Hear him, hear him.

Scene7 competitor

A set of standardised icons for popular social networking services and tools.

Maybe you want to use AJAX to load a script that requires the use of document.write. But after teh page has loaded document.write tends to destroy the universe without even asking first! Solution: Replace document.write!

Missing. The. Point.

"With this tool, you are able to import both realtime and historic Pachube data (i.e. sensor and environment data) into popular 3D CAD package Google SketchUp. The incoming data can be used to generate or modulate a 3D model of a building or environment, and enables sophisticated design-decisions that are based on actual (and not simulated) sensor and environment data. Possible uses include designing interactive façades, undertaking post-occupancy evaluation (which is where you evaluate how well the design performs) and sensor-based form generation." In love.

A jQuery plugin with native animations, auto list navigation, and default application styles for Mobile WebKit browsers like iPhone, G1, and Pre.

Wish more people did stuff like this.

The Quick Look plugin that handles source code in Leopard is, well, boring. We developers expect syntax highlighting these days! Thanks to WebKit, Highlight, and the foresight of the Quick Look API designers, however, this is easy to achieve. Just drop this plugin into /Library/QuickLook or ~/Library/QuickLook and bask in the glow of the beautiful syntax highlighting!

Working in all major browsers, including Google Chrome!. It works with floated 2-column layouts and we don't get overlap in resized browser windows unlike older solutions you find when you Google sticky footer. And you don't need an empty push div.

A URL shortening app for Django.

"We’ve combined some fun things, a treasure hunt / i-spy game which you play using your mobile, which generates a list of everything you’ve seen at an event (in an end of school holiday essay style), with geotagging and analytics. Your mobile number is the tracking cookie. We call the game And I Saw...”

Excellent overview of agile (small-a) process from Malarkey

"A Growl client for the iPhone. Notifications from your Mac (or even Windows! see the FAQ) can be sent to your iPhone over push, with a full range of customization and grace you expect." Beautiful.

"Over the past 2 months the city government, in cooperation with business groups and non-profits, has turned a corner of one of the busiest intersections in San Francisco into a public plaza. The 17th Street Plaza project took 72-hours to implement, and is carefully called a “reversible trial.” Like the phrase “reversible pilot”.

To date, we’ve only had machine tags “extras” available for upcoming:event= and lastfm:event= tags but starting today we’re adding support for three new projects: Dopplr, Open Plaques and the Open Library.

A simple tool that makes reading on the Web more enjoyable by removing the clutter around what you’re reading.

I persevered, I obediently followed the tutorial, and I discovered all the things that make Django such a powerful framework; the excellent separation of concerns, the superb templating system, the lack of so-called front-end “helpers” that cripple other server-side frameworks. I think Gareth was really onto something when he noticed the way that the web standards world appears to be choosing Django.

A service that enables you to connect, tag and share real time sensor data from objects, devices, buildings and environments around the world. The key aim is to facilitate interaction between remote environments, both physical and virtual.

Jeremy Keith's notes from Jared Spool's talk at An Event Apart Boston.

Area/Code takes advantage of today's environment of pervasive technologies and overlapping media to create new kinds of entertainment.

Spool's excellent talk on Amazon from An Event Apart Boston.

[If you] import a specially formatted vcard.vcf address book file with the proper Emojis already inside, you'll be able to type out Emojis a chunk at a time, and delete the ones you don't want. It's a gimpy way of doing it, but it's free.

"Free set of software tools that enable designers to easily "sketch in hardware". With no programming at all and working in the familiar environment of Flash, designers can hook up a physical sensor (e.g. a knob) and immediately get that knob to control a motor or a video projection. The toolkit works with a wide range of sensors, wireless sensors, input from the Wii Remote, controls motors and LEDs, communicates with MIDI devices, controls sound, graphics, and video in Flash, and communicates with DMX computer controlled lighting equipment, all with a simple drag-and-drop interface (of course, programming hooks are provided as well)."

"Q: Are there honestly 46 new Transformers in the movie?" "A: I have no fucking clue."

Festival celebrating independent music (labels) in the UK. Gigs at the ICA etc.

You can be doing agile without performing any of the current recommended practices and you can perform all the recommended practices and still not be agile. Lots of teams believe they are practicing agile just because they are doing standups or TDD… That’s like pretending to be a musician because you have the best instrument.

Photojojo’s Photo Time Capsule

“Twice a month, enjoy an email with your [Flickr] photos from a year ago”.

I should have known better than to get drawn into a conversation about awards. It’s a trap. It’s a mugs’ game. But awards are addictive. It’s the closest most of us get to a pat on the head from mum and dad. Teacher’s not handing out gold stars any more. But the feeling of acceptance and recognition that creative people feel from awards isn’t far off. It’s hard to ignore their shiny allure. And of course we crow about them loudly when we win. But we know that’s wrong. It should all be about the satisfaction that we get from making brilliant things. And the impact they have on real people. And clients.

Automatic Image Stitching for the iPhone

"It's like a lot of similar projects where the goal is to improve the speed of page load by allowing scripts to load in parallel. The thing it does slightly differently than most others like it is it allows you to "block", which is to say, load one or more scripts in parallel, then wait for them to finish, before going on to something else, like loading more scripts."

Portfolio built with Google Maps controls.

For those who have no control over which clients and projects come to them, there is still hope, because everyone on the web (not just professional designers and developers) has the ability to produce meaningful content, and every designer and developer additionally has the power to create products and services. As your own client, working alone, or with a carefully hand-picked team, you can produce great things

Complicated but clever non-JS video object-fallback method.

Best film review of the year.

That's a matter of opinion. Horrible, horrible, horrible.