Tools: an amazing Chrome extension which lets you copy words from inside images, at last - http://projectnaptha.com

(via kottke)

Tool: Kimono can scrape data from any website to generate a web app or API - kimonolabs.com
Without any code I made this for my phone: barbicanfilm.com

Chrome extension: automatically displays the single page version of those multi-page articles on NYT and others - http://goo.gl/0OcPDw 

(via @craigmod)

Video: "One Coin for All Your Cards" - http://youtu.be/w9Sx34swEG0



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Glad the tech community is solving problems for those whose challenge is that they have too many credit cards. Next: "I have too many cars!"
— Anil Dash (@anildash) November 15, 2013

Retweet:

How to do DIY transcription using Mechanical Turk. I do this all the time—fast, cheap, and accurate. bit.ly/ZFzF6x @svknyc #IAS13
— Karen McGrane (@karenmcgrane) April 6, 2013

How to: access parts of the internet not available where you live - http://goo.gl/TjipJ
(Lifehacker's "Always Up-to-Date Guide" to streaming blocked content overseas, 700 words)

On having nice things: If you could buy the perfect set of cutlery ($55 per knife and fork), would you want to? For and against.

(700 words, 1300 words)

Software: Photoshop and InDesign from nearly 8 years ago are now free to download from Adobe due to some slight confusion which may work in Adobe's favour: http://goo.gl/JbIxG

Tools: "if this then that" mashes up the web to automate tasks. For example one of the "recipes" from their Google Drive Channel will record all rainfall for your city to a Google spreadsheet as it rains, or make a note of everyone who retweets you - https://ifttt.com

(previously)

"Tucked away in the acknowledgements at the back of her new novel NW, along with the names of friends, family, editors and publishers who have helped her, Zadie Smith thanks freedom and self-control “for creating the time”... Freedom© and SelfControl© are computer applications that can be downloaded and configured to increase productivity by blocking access to the internet."

 - Carl Wilkinson

"One of the first systems our engineers built in AWS is called the Chaos Monkey. The Chaos Monkey's job is to randomly kill instances and services within our architecture. If we aren't constantly testing our ability to succeed despite failure, then it isn't likely to work when it matters most – in the event of an unexpected outage."

 - John Ciancutti, then of Netflix 

(on GitHub; see also Chaos Gorilla; via Jeff Atwood; image)

If you type "facebook report" into Wolfram Alpha and sign in, Wolfram now provides an analytics deep dive into your Facebook usage and friend network data.

(more info; via The Verge)

Video: on difficult words to translate - http://youtu.be/2SOMP3Inbf8



(1m35s, via Mashable; input tools)

Android App: "on{X}" lets you program your phone without code, eg "play music when I start driving" - http://aka.ms/onxapp



(2m40s; via TechCrunch; for the web equivalent see if this then that)

Photos: busy places minus the people in "Silent World"

(Lucie & Simon; via wejetset; how to)

Article: How to drink from the internet firehose - http://goo.gl/r7noL

(600 words, Alan Jacobs, The Atlantic)

Could you use an iPad for "extended desktop"?
Yes, for £6.99 ($9.99): Air Display app - http://goo.gl/2wuyT
(via lifehacker)

Do you live in a spreadsheet? Here's a crib sheet of all the Ctrl+ keyboard shortcuts - http://goo.gl/0Jfcw

(by Turi Henderson)

Gmail: If you haven't already, enable "Preview Pane" in Labs. Good for larger screens.

A handy online graphics calculator - http://www.desmos.com/calculator/



(1m07s; via TechCrunch)