Woody’s round up

I’ve had almost no time to blog properly recently (mostly due to Twitter handling the need to vent very well!) so I thought it’d be nice to have a bit of a dump of stuff I’ve meant to blog about but… well… haven’t. In no particular order:

Snowtweet

I don’t even go skiing or snowboarding but I’m impressed with the gorgeous design and functionality of SnowTweet, which uses the power of Twitter to give real-time updates from real people regarding all things snow. Top marks Jon Moss and Andreas Carlson!

Screenflow

I’ve been really enjoying playing with the simple but powerful screencasting software for Mac OSX. I’m particularly thinking of the possibilities for client training after delivery of a website, be great to leave clients with little ‘how-to’ videos to refer to at any time. See the Screenflow website.

The Potter’s Field Project

My mate Joe Solo has put together a stunning album of original compositions based on the forgotten stories of World War I. Visit the Potter’s Field MySpace page, and better still, buy a copy of the CD.

Grand Perspective

I’d recently become alarmed at the dwindling amount of space I had on my MacBook Pro’s hard drive. While I’ve got a few external and off-site backups and storage, it was still worrying to see how little space I had left. Eek!

Grand Perspective to the rescue, a small application which gives a graphical representation of the stuff that’s clogging up your hard drive. I’ve used similar applications in the past but none have been as useful at showing what was taking up the space. Recommended.

Get Noded

I love the whole philosophy behind the concept of Noded teams as an alternative to the traditional approach to office-based employee teams. See the Noded website.

Dropbox

Others have ably covered why Dropbox is such a genius idea so I won’t go into the details again here. Suffice to say I do often wonder how I ever did without it. An excellent all-purpose back-up system, it also allows for easy access to files on multiple machines and makes sharing files amongst other people (Dropbox users or not) an absolute doddle.

5 Simple Steps

I really enjoyed reading Mark Boulton’s ‘5 Simple Steps – a practical guide to designing for the web‘ PDF book. Well worth £12 and highly recommended, even if it only reassures you that you’re doing things right :)

1Password

How on earth have I ever managed without 1Password? Really simple but very powerful way of handling the increasing number of passwords I have to remember. Highly recommended.

SL Developer Info extension

ExpressionEngine developers out there would do well to go post haste to grab Stephen Lewis’ SL Developer Info extension and install it sharpish. Invaluable.