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• Firefox Tab Candy
  “We need a way to organize browsing, to see all of our tabs at once, and focus on the task at hand. In short, we need a way to get back control of our online lives. Enter: Tab Candy” — read more — Also, this screencast shows the new Firefox 4 OSX theme (with tabs on top) if I’m not mistaken :-)
  [ July 23rd, 2010 - 0 comment(s) ]
• Lagoa Multiphysics
  Impressive teaser video!
  [ July 22nd, 2010 - 0 comment(s) ]
• Sketch Chair
  “Sketch Chair is an application that allows novice users to take part in the entire process of designing and building their own chairs. Chairs are designed using a simple 2D sketch-based interface and design validation tools. Thereafter chairs are fabricated from sheet materials cut by a laser cutter, CNC milling machine or paper cutters. ”
  [ July 21st, 2010 - 0 comment(s) ]
• Phone Disk
  “Phone Disk is a tiny program which runs in the system tray of your Mac or PC. When it finds an iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch it seamlessly mounts it to your file system so you can directly access files on it using Finder or any other program.”
  [ July 12th, 2010 - 0 comment(s) ]
• Downloading from hotfile via wget
  

  It’s rather easy actually: log in (via wget) so that a cookie will be made and start downloading

  
  [ July 9th, 2010 - 0 comment(s) ]
• Javascript Autocomplete Fuzzy Matching
  Fuzzy Matching: “Let’s say you have five people. Daniel, Dustin, David, Damarcus, and Russ. Now let’s say a user types in dus. We would match Dustin and Damarcus. Likewise, if we typed in us, we would get an output of Dustin, Damarcus, and Russ.”
  [ July 8th, 2010 - 0 comment(s) ]
• Console Wars Veteran Pins
  The inner geek in me rejoices when seeing these super sweet Console Wars Veteran Pins!
  [ July 8th, 2010 - 0 comment(s) ]
• pyTunes - Control iTunes from Terminal
  “Basic iTunes controls right in Terminal. Skip that annoying track that always comes up when shuffling without ever leaving Terminal.”
  [ July 7th, 2010 - 0 comment(s) ]
• Firefox 4 Beta 1
  

  Firefox 4 Beta 1 has been released. Be sure to check out the new features and the big chart ‘o technology (highly interesting!). UPD: Web developers might also want to check this neat overview

  Note that “The new interface will soon be available for Mac and Linux users.” (Windows only atm) and that OOPP made it into the Mac release by now.

  
  [ July 6th, 2010 - 0 comment(s) ]
• Fake - Mac OS X Web Automation and Testing Made Simple.
  “Inspired by Apple’s Automator application, Fake looks like a combination of Safari and Automator and allows you to run (and re-run) “fake” interactions with the web. ” — Looks great I must say!
  [ July 6th, 2010 - 0 comment(s) ]
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