PICOL stands for PIctorial COmmunication Language and is a project to find a standard and reduced sign system for electronic communication. PICOL is free to use and open to alter.
Mac Dictionary Kit is a collection of tools to help convert and build dictionaries on Mac OS X platform. The source dictionary could be in any format, but we only support stardict format at present. The target dictionary must be Dictionary 2.0 format defined in Mac OS X 10.5.
Another Smashing Magazine guide. "In this article, we’ll look at some useful techniques and clever effects that use the power of style sheets and some features of the upcoming CSS Text Level 3 specification, which should give Web designers finer control over text."
Browser-based ebook reader. Embeddable (javascript, no dependencies, MIT license).
Smashing Magazine. Resizing images based on window size, one page résumé, CSS 100% height, vertical centering, etc.
An extension to the Atom feed format to express what people are doing around the web.
A Mac OS X Leopard developer tool for debugging HTTP services by graphically creating & inspecting complex HTTP messages.
The Gerd Arntz archive. It includes the Isotype pictograms' collection, created by Gerd Arntz under direction by Otto Neurath.
Inform is a design system for interactive fiction based on natural language. Mac OS X, Windows & Linux versions.
Add audio to your site the easy way. 1) Put audio links in your page (href="*.mp3") 2) include external javascript in your HTML template and 3) you get play buttons next to each song :-)
An alternative to sIFR, cufón ("fonts for the people") consists of a font generator -which converts OTF/TTF/Postcript fonts to SVG/VML- and a rendering engine written in JavaScript. No Flash. Compatible with every major browser.
Free online OCR tool. It takes a single file in the following formats: JPG, GIF, TIFF BMP or PDF (only first page). Not larger than 2MB, no wider or higher than 5000 pixels, 10 image uploads per hour. Catalan, English, French, German, Spanish, etc.
Live Syncing (Mirror) Daemon. It uses rsync to synchronize local directories with a remote machine running rsyncd. Lsyncd watches multiple directories trees through inotify. It is a light-weight live mirror solution. When not to use: file with active file handles, directories where many changes occur.
Collaborative book editing platform. EPUB import. Web app. Open source software?
Video games history timeline and visual timeline (flash, beta). By Mauricio Giraldo Arteaga (Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia). "This site aims to visualize the story of videogames and its most related events".
An applescript that watches presenter notes in a Keynote presentation and sends automatic updates to twitter. Configurable #hashtags and @mentions.
"The Data Liberation Front is an engineering team at Google whose singular goal is to make it easier for users to move their data in and out of Google products. We do this because we believe that you should be able to export any data that you create in (or import into) a product."
"Your Bookmarklets, On Steroids". An extensible bookmarklet that uses text shortcuts to access your bookmarks and bookmarklets ("like a command line for your browser").
Using the file system for your notes, dougist.com.
oEmbed is a format for allowing an embedded representation of a URL on third party sites. The simple API allows a website to display embedded content (such as photos or videos) when a user posts a link to that resource, without having to parse the resource directly.