2Do will suit your needs no matter who you are or what you do. It’s a productivity chameleon.

Generate a base64 encoded Data URI straight from the Finder.
An Automator workflow which adds an item to the ‘Services’ contextual menu. It generates the Data URI for a file and copies it to the pasteboard.

That’s why we have put together a selection of tools that we use the most and that we enjoy working with. We called it selection.datavisualization.ch. It includes libraries for plotting data on maps, frameworks for creating charts, graphs and diagrams and tools to simplify the handling of data. Even if you’re not into programming, you’ll find applications that can be used without writing one single line of code. We will keep this list as a living repository and add / remove things as technology develops. We hope this will help you find the best tool for your next job.

It's quicker to use than a spreadsheet, and smarter and clearer than a traditional calculator. Use Soulver to play around with numbers, do "back of the envelope" quick calculations, and solve day-to-day problems.

A Guide to Discernible Web Design in Photoshop

Smart Objects are magical containers. They can hold an image, a vector graphic, or a complex set of layers. You can duplicate a Smart Object many times within your file and update the Object once to change all instances. You can apply filters to a Smart Object non-destructively, so you can remove them at any time. You can also transform Smart Objects (scale, rotate, skew, distort, etc etc.) without losing the original image data or quality.

If you want to write simple documents using a plain text editor but still want to add basic text formatting, you can use Markdown: John Gruber's formatting system, with which you use short and easy-to-remember codes to mark up your text. Lots of websites and blogs are already using Markdown, so you can enter plain text and still have it formatted the way you want.
With my Javascript markdownID), you can select existing text or import a Markdown file, and it will be converted into properly styled text for InDesign.
The script supports lots of the standard functions from the original Markdown, and so you can use the Markdown reference for the basic set of commands. Unfortunately, there are also some functions that InDesign cannot easily emulate.

The Markdown Service Tools are a collection of OS X Services designed to make writing Markdown text that much easier. Services work in any Cocoa-based application (which is most of the apps on your Mac). The Services are prefixed with “md” to keep them grouped in your Services menu. You can assign your own keyboard shortcuts (see the last section of this document) to make accessing them more convenient.

Click on the microphone icon and begin speaking for as long as you like.

EyeDoc — это программа, которая поможет предотвратить усталость ваших глаз при работе за компьютером.

Инструмент для форматирования текста с использованием норм, правил и специфики русского языка и экранной типографики. Его можно подключать ко всем редакторам текста, движкам и блогам.

Pow automatically serves static files in the public directory of your application. It's possible to serve a completely static site without a config.ru file as long as it has a public directory.

A Sublime Text plug-in that automatically folds base64-encoded data URIs in your CSS files.

Ready-to-use virtual machines sporting open-source operating systems

PieCrust is a static website generator and lightweight CMS that’s all managed with text files. No complex setup, databases, or administrative panels. Simple, beautiful, and yummy.

The static site generators are so numerous, that I will not try to list all of them, but some selection, excluding the software which are only targeted to blogs. My selection may also be biased toward python.

When importing and exporting contact data, sometimes you will come across a single VCard (.vcf) that contains multiple contacts. Outlook has no native way to read this file.
This simple Windows Forms application splits a single file into one VCard for each contact, allowing you to drag-and-drop the resulting files into Outlook or Exchange.

Everything you need to start selling online – today.

It’s hard to be equally good at all of the tasks that fall under data journalism. To make matters worse (or better, really), data journalists are discovering and applying new methods and tools all the time.

On Thursday, David Blatner sent me an email asking how difficult it would be to create a script which would create swatches in InDesign from hex values.