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.

Hundreds of tools may be available for interaction designers, but there is still no industry standard for interaction design the way Photoshop and Illustrator are to graphic design. Popular programs are out there, but many of them have considerable drawbacks, which has led me to explore alternative apps.

Links to interesting scripts, sorted by categories. I just started filling in this page so there is a small number of scripts so far. Some scripts may appear in several categories.

You Didn't Know You Could Automate that many tasks

When current available Markdown editors are almost all for general writers, Mou is different: It's for web developers. Syntax highlighting, live preview, sync scroll, fullscreen mode, auto save, powerful actions, auto pair, custom themes and CSS, HTML and PDF export, enhanced CJK support. I know, it's exactly the app you want.

Mapshaper is a program for simplifying cartographic lines while preserving the topological relationships between adjacent polygons and intersecting polyline paths. It can read and write Shapefile, GeoJSON and TopoJSON files. The current version can be found at mapshaper.org.

MeWiG is a Windows Frontend to the MEncoder (part of MPlayer) using the .NET Framework.
You should be able to crop, scale, deinterlace, etc and finally convert almost any digital video-source, without the need for commandline-options.

StaxRip is open source video converter MP4 GUI with a wide range of supported source formats.