Want to hide a cluttered desktop? Focus on one particular application, or even one window within an application? Desktop Curtain can do all of that, and more…

Cronic is a shell script to help control the most annoying feature of cron: unwanted emailed output

A book by Frank Chimero

In social psychology, propinquity is one of the main factors leading to interpersonal attraction. It refers to the physical or psychological proximity between people.

Not my Ars Technica blog and not Twitter.

Actual quotes, complaints, and wise sayings from John Siracusa as heard on 5by5's entertaining Hypercritical broadcast.

John Siracusa remembers how Steve Jobs shaped his view of the world.

CodeKen 2012 is a two day conference for developers with a passion for new technology taking place in London on 6th and 7th November.

Rob Fitzpatrick is betting £10k that he can build a portfolio of products which is profitable enough to live off before running out of money.

A collection of the best time-saving apps, tools, and widgets from around the web.

a bash script that goes through all commits in the current branch of repository and creates a slideshow using the specified files

American actor and star of the TV comedy Scrubs, Zach Braff, talks with Rachael Brown about his foray into theatre and experiments with social media.

Powerful webapp for managing Twitter lists.

A brief reading and Q&A on Discardia: More Life, Less Stuff at South By Southwest

Capture and share ideas on your iPhone or iPod Touch. Drafts reduces the friction between you and that next great tweet, email, poem or whatever else strikes your fancy.

The font editor for everyone.

This started out as a list of top Computer Science blogs, but it more closely resembles a set: the order is irrelevant and there are no duplicate elements

For more than 3 decades, Steve Jobs transformed product launches into an art form. So, although you might not have an iPad to unveil, you can still learn a lot from his legacy.

This new eBook reveals the strategies used by former Apple CEO Steve Jobs to deliver powerful presentations that informed, educated and entertained.

Commercial Ruby-based development toolchain for iOS. Based on MacRuby, it produces native iOS apps, but they’re written in Ruby instead of Objective-C.

This is simplest SMTP server you'll ever see. It's asynchronous. One instance should handle over one thousand emails per second, thanks to Gevent.

A Ruby CMS for developers and designers. Nesta is extendable using the Sinatra web framework.

Featuring single High-Definition MicroDrivers, the SE315 delivers full range sound and optimized low-end performance utilizing a vented driver. A detachable cable with formable wire enables easy replacement and secure, comfortable fit onstage or on-the-go. Sound Isolating sleeves in multiple sizes provide up to 37 dB of isolation and a customized fit. Available in black or clear.

Learn how to design and develop for the web and iOS. Online training company founded by Ryan Carson.

Screenshot Journal is a tool for archiving and inspecting screenshots of your iOS applications.

UX Myths collects the most frequent user experience misconceptions and explains why they don't hold true.

When someone is looking at what makes up a top-class enterprise software developer, often the conversation may turn to knowledge of frameworks and languages, or perhaps the ability to understand complicated algorithms and data structures. For me, one of the most important traits in a programmer, or indeed in a development team, is something that I'll call Customer Affinity. This is the interest and closeness that the developers have in the business problem that the software is addressing, and in the people who live in that business world.

These are podcasts about forgotten fiction, for curious readers, and for anyone who likes old books. Sometimes they're stories, sometimes they're not. Most of the authors write in English; and sometimes they don't.

Living in New York City is a completely unpredictable affair. Some mornings you wake up, stagger out of bed, and the city passionately kisses you, filling the day with idyllic charm. Other mornings begin with what feels like a perfectly timed kick, worthy of the last penalty strike in a World Cup soccer match, that lands superlatively between your legs. Often, New York City greets you with both.

Folding bikes

Dark and light custom UI themes for Sublime Text 2

Quality Audio Software for Mac OS X

Savvy is about how to deal with office politics, conflict and difficult people at work. Full of essential advice on developing the right skills to overcome these problems, it will help you to boost your career and ensure you are a success. Practical and insightful, Savvy will help you to master the necessary skills to deal with these diffficult situations, including the art of influnce, how to be persuasive, how to understand and handle conflict, build a network, develop the right mindset, manage your boss and deal with a bully. With case studies and examples, Savvy will help you to understand behaviour and power dynamics at work, and learn how to negotiate them successfully.

SCM Breeze is a set of shell scripts (for bash and zsh) that enhance your interaction with tools such as git. It integrates with your shell to give you numbered file shortcuts, a repository index with tab completion, and a community driven collection of useful SCM functions.

In modern usage, sophism, sophist and sophistry are used derogatively.
A sophism is taken as a specious argument used for deception. It might be crafted to appear logical while actually representing a falsehood, or it might use obscure words and complicated sentence constructions in order to intimidate the opponent into agreement out of fear of feeling foolish. Other techniques include manipulating the opponent's prejudices and emotions to overcome their logical faculties.

libgit2 is a portable, pure C implementation of the Git core methods provided as a re-entrant linkable library with a solid API, allowing you to write native speed custom Git applications in any language which supports C bindings.

Sonatype is pleased to announce the availability of our most popular book, Maven: The Complete Reference, as an epub.

MacRuby in Action is a tutorial for Ruby developers who want to code for Mac OS X without learning Objective-C. You'll learn the ins and outs of the MacRuby language, including straightforward examples of creating OS X applications using Cocoa components.

A hypertext boutique featuring fine goods crafted by Rogie King

Gmelius is a browser extension that proposes a better and cleaner Gmail inbox.

Punch is a simple tool to generate a static website out of Mustache templates and content stored in either JSON or Markdown format.

Scooter Software forums discussion on a Mac version of Beyond Compare

French Knots Craft Studio, run by Jo Johnston, designs and makes home textiles and gifts under the French Knots brand and hosts workshops and craft classes in their light and airy Craft Studio in Sale

A group of like-minded people who love reading business and personal development books and want to grow and improve as business people and as a person in general.

We will meet once a month to discuss what book we've read and give recommendations to the rest of the group, it will also be a great way to hold ourselves accountable for reading as much as we intend to and to meet new people.

"Get Lucky" is a manual for serendipity: what it is,
how it works, and how to put it to work for you.

This website and poster have been designed to help you identify and call out dodgy logic wherever it may raise its ugly, incoherent head.

Merlin Mann at Webstock 2011 in Wellington, NZ.

Merlin Mann is the creator of the Getting Things Done oriented web site 43folders.com and a GTD Guru in his own right. He came and did a tech talk last summer called Inbox Zero which was packed, and can be seen at http://youtube.com/watch?v=z9UjeTMb3Yk (and is highly recommended). This time Merlin is coming in to talk to us about time and attention, and how to maximize both.

The Manchester Lean Startup Group is a group of entrepreneurs who learn from each other by trading stories about employing the Lean Startup principles within their startups.

Premium Pixels is a bunch of free design resources & tutorials created by Orman Clark.