Red Pen
Red Pen lets you upload your design, share a short URL, and get live, annotated feedback super-fast. It remembers you— there’s no logging in, no project management, no bullshit.
One Thing Well
A weblog about simple, useful software.
Follow on Twitter, App.net, Google+ or via the feed. Feel free to get in touch. Sponsor the site.
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gitit
Gitit is a wiki program written in Haskell. It uses Happstack for the web server and pandoc for markup processing. Pages and uploaded files are stored in a git, darcs, or mercurial repository and may be modified either by using the VCS’s command-line tools or through the wiki’s web interface.
phog
What is phog? A static-site generator along the lines of Jekyll, Volt, nanoc etc. but for the purpose of generating image & video galleries and photo blogs. It’s not a general purpose blogging engine — galleries are the main focus.
Push to Kindle
Push to Kindle lets you send web articles (news stories, blog posts, Wikipedia entries) to your Kindle app or device for a better reading experience.
Add nicely-formatted articles to your Kindle via extensions for Chrome, Firefox, Opera & Safari, or an Android app.
ikiwiki
Ikiwiki is a wiki compiler. It converts wiki pages into HTML pages suitable for publishing on a website. Ikiwiki stores pages and history in a revision control system such as Subversion or Git.
App.net Invitations
After I set up an Alpha account for One Thing Well last week, the folk over at App.net suggested I give away a bunch of invitations to their service.
Fancy joining? Click on this link:
https://join.app.net/from/gpvcbnkfjf
If you sign up to App.net via the URL above, you’ll get an account on the free tier1 and automatically follow @onethingwell.
There are 150 accounts available, and the invitation link will expire on Wednesday, 15th of May (in other words, be quick!).
If you’re not sure what Alpha and App.net are, and wonder whether you should bother with an account:
Alpha is a Twitter-ish thing built on App.net that feels a wee bit like Twitter did before it hit the mainstream, but after the influx of new users who signed up in 2007, post-SXSW — generally quite geeky, relatively quiet, and with an emphasis on conversation over quickfire one-to-many quippery. It’s roomier, too, with posts limited to 256 characters.
App.net proper is a platform for, well, all sorts of social-type things2—messaging and chat, file storage, sharing & synchronisation, location check-ins, &c..
This generalist approach allows developers to build, say, an App.net-backed photo-sharing app, or a quick ‘n’ easy file-sharing application. So, if you’re not interested in Alpha, an App.net account might still come in handy.
Whatever you end up using App.net for, the following line from their ‘core values’ applies:
> App.net members always have full control of their data and the fundamental right to easily back-up, export, and delete ALL of their data, whenever they want.
In short, Alpha is a nice place to hang out and talk to folk; App.net is a platform with a lot of potential, and a laudable emphasis on treating its users well.
The only thing missing is people — particularly people who aren’t developers, technology journalists or semi-professional webloggers! — a problem you can help fix with a quick click:
https://join.app.net/from/gpvcbnkfjf
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This means you can follow up to 40 accounts, and have 500 MB of file storage to play with. If you upgrade to a paid account (which costs $36 a year) you get 10 GB of storage and can follow as many accounts as you like. ↩
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See the App.net API’s Annotations documentation for an idea of how flexible the service can be, and check the App.net directory to see what developers are dreaming up. ↩
Oak Outliner
Feed Wrangler
Feed Wrangler is a modern, sustainable RSS reader.
Featuring a web interface, apps for iOS, tight integration with Instapaper or Pocket and ‘Smart Streams’—a clever feature which lets you group selected feeds into a river of news, create feeds based on search criteria, or mute feed items based on keyword filters.
An OS X application is ‘coming soon’, and an API for third party developers is set to launch this month.
A subscription to Feed Wrangler will set you back $18.99 a year; the various apps are free.
Infogr.am
Turn your data into charts, graphs, infographics, &c.. Import XLS, XLSX and CSV files or enter data onsite.
Via Lifehacker.
Barry
Save full length webpages as images using your iPhone and iPad.
Helium
Helium is a tool for discovering unused CSS across many pages on a web site.
The tool is javascript-based and runs from the browser.
Helium accepts a list of URLs for different sections of a site then loads and parses each page to build up a list of all stylesheets. It then visits each page in the URL list and checks if the selectors found in the stylesheets are used on the pages. Finally, it generates a report that details each stylesheet and the selectors that were not found to be used on any of the given pages.
Markable
A web-based Markdown editor with live preview, format conversion, easy document sharing and integration with Dropbox or Evernote for storage and synchronisation.
Contextinator
Contextinator lets you divide your web browsing sessions into projects and manage all of their related information. A project is a collection of browser tabs opened in the same window, series of filters in existing applications (Gmail, Evernote, Dropbox, etc.), bookmarks, people and tasks.
ArchiveTeam Warrior
The ArchiveTeam Warrior is a virtual archiving appliance. You can run it to help with the Archive Team archiving efforts. It will download sites and upload them to our archive — and it’s really easy to do!
The warrior is a virtual machine, so there is no risk to your computer. The warrior will only use your bandwidth and some of your disk space.
Via Waxy.
