If you're not a fan of the social elements in Google Reader—like seeing the people following you and the content they're sharing—this simple hack will strip the social features out. More »

Picasa is a great photo manager with loads of features and a very high ease-of-use factor. If you regularly take screenshots however, you've likely noticed an annoying "feature"—a disk-gobbling screenshot function you can't turn off. Let's fix that. More »

Wrong about the iPad (Tim Bray) -- I am actively ignoring the iPad drivel, but this line caught my eye: Intelligence is a text-based application.
Fertile Medium -- online community consultancy, from the first and former Flickr community coordinator. One to watch: Heather and Derek really know their community. Again I say it: understanding of how open source and other collaborative communities can function is rare and valuable. (via waxy)
pigz -- parallel gzip implementation. Voom voom, so fast! (via kellan on Delicious
Prefab: What If We Could Modify Any Interface? -- screen-scraping for GUIs to bolt on new functionality to user interfaces. This is incredible. Watch the demo, it's impressive!