Aims to promote transparency and citizen engagement through the analysis and visualisation of information about UK public spending.

Reporting and writing basics.

Keep track of all your domains.

A strategic management template for developing new or documenting existing business models. It is a visual chart with elements describing a firm's value proposition, infrastructure, customers, and finances.

Tools that the people behind Datavisualization.ch, work with on a daily basis and recommend warmly.

What happens when all the things we based our icons on don't exist anymore? Do they just become, ahem, iconic glyphs whose origins are shrouded in mystery?

A blogging platform that lets you create unique, image-rich, designed posts that look good on mobile, tablet and desktop.

The mechanics of the Portal series each revolve around moving the player or items from one place to another in a non-intuitive manner. In order to complete the task the puzzle must pass through one or more "goal states." The mechanics are used to tie each goal state in the puzzle together.

MailChimp guide to brand voice and personality.

There are many good reasons to want to disappear from society. There are many bad reasons to want to. There are many good ways to disappear from society and there are many bad ways to disappear. While I won’t delve too deeply into the whys of disappearing, I will cover my opinions on how to disappear successfully.

This free online book is intended to be a useful resource for anyone interested in becoming a data journalist, or dabbling in data journalism.

Privacy patterns are design solutions to common privacy problems — a way to translate "privacy-by-design" into practical advice for software engineering.

The fantasy maps of Jonathan Roberts

A paintbrush/stylus for the iPad! (Another hugely successful Kickstarter product)

Installing an application distributes many files throughout your System using space of your Hard Drive unnecessarily. AppCleaner finds all these small files and safely deletes them.

Delibar focuses on giving Mac OS X users an easy and quick tool for searching, managing and sharing their Pinboard and Delicious bookmarks.

0to255 is a simple tool that helps web designers find variations of any color. Perfect for hovers, borders, gradients, and more.

Simple, easy to use, very extendable Options framework for WP themes.

The Argo links plugin makes it easy to collect links from across the Web and share them right from your WordPress dashboard.

The site focuses on tools and technology relevant to filmmakers, writers, directors, editors, producers, cinematographers, bloggers, designers, and entrepreneurs. If you’re a multi-hyphenate — meaning, you’re more than one of these things — all the better.

Pixel art from the Commodore era.

HyperDither is an OS X image processing utility that converts color or grayscale images to 1 bit black & white using a sophisticated dithering routine. Specifically, HyperDither implements the “Atkinson” dithering filter.

Frogatto & Friends is an old-school 2D platformer game, starring a certain quixotic frog. Also, Frogatto has a very flexible game engine you can use to make your own creations.

Leanpub helps you connect with readers and sell your ebook, while you’re writing it and after it’s done.

Software for making animated films.

Image capture for stop motion animation. New features include a visual timeline editor, integrated lip-sync, advanced DMX lighting, motion control and much more.

"The central purpose of journalism is to provide citizens with accurate and reliable information they need to function in a free society."

An opensource library of electronic modules that snap together with tiny magnets for prototyping and play.

Useful/amusing bits of software for the top-right of your screen

Working towards an open standard for food information online.

The open food data standard aims to be participatory, and to promote a better food system by supporting information sharing to enhance the work of the many people who strive to improve access to healthy local food, promote small farms and food businesses, and many other critical features of a healthy food system.

Free, open source MySQL database management for OS X.

A peer-to-peer network of virtual spaces (autonomous from the Internet) for open political discussions. Anyone within range of an Occupy.here wifi router with a web-capable smartphone or laptop can join the network “OCCUPY.HERE,” load the locally-hosted website http://occupy.here, and use the message board to connect with other users nearby. The open source forum software offers a simple, mobile-friendly interface where users can write messages and post replies.

TitanPad lets people work on one document simultaneously.

From time to time you need to know what the time is elsewhere in the world. There are lots of sites with that information (including Google) but this is simple, elegant and has a memorable URL.

Generate a consistent color palette from a single colour. One of the better web-based colour tools.

Add Tweets and Facebook posts to your Buffer from anywhere and we automagically share them for you through the day.

Free software for Windows, OS X and Linux that levels out audio files.

With just a few simple controls, anyone can remove unwanted hiss, room noise, rumble, electrical hum, and other background noise from almost any digital media file — including digital video (DV), digital audio workstation tracks, analog cassette/tape recordings, vinyl LP recordings, and more.

CrypTweet is a collection of Python programs designed to work together, using RSA public-key cryptography so that anyone can send you an encrypted direct message (DMs), but only you can read it.

A plan to open a bookshop, both online and and in Brooklyn, NY, to seek out the copyright holders of one classic or obscure vintage SF title per month and publish it online.

Type any color values in the search field and ColorHexa will offer a detailed description and automatically convert it and generate matching color schemes.

The world's marketplace for royalty-free stock video, sound effects, music, after effects, photos and illustrations.

This handbook discusses the legal, social and technical aspects of open data. It can be used by anyone but is especially designed for those seeking to open up data. It discusses the why, what and how of open data – why to go open, what open is, and the how to ‘open’ data.

It's the easiest way to start writing your own email newsletter. Just tell people to subscribe, then write whatever you want, whenever you want, and we'll send it out.

FaqMe is a service that makes it easy to create a nice FAQ page and "contact us" system for your website -- like the page you're reading right now.

Accept subscription payments, manage customer profiles, deliver digital content, integrate with your blog, forum, or CMS, send opt-in newsletters, run your own affiliate program everything is easy with aMember Pro.

Turns the web into a movie sales platform.

Give us a file and a price, and we'll give you a short link that will let you sell it.

We have rethought and redesigned the entire diagramming process to make it as easy as possible. Draw flow charts, wireframes, UML diagrams, and more with just a few clicks.

Nice simple QR code generation tool.

COLLADA is a royalty-free XML schema that enables digital asset exchange within the interactive 3D industry.

Brew the best colours for your diagram or map.

Pin, organize & show your favorite places through OpenStreetMap/WMTS, Google Maps/Earth (KML), GeoJSON or Augmented-Reality browsers

Find the latitude and longitude of a point on a map.

Broadcast Anything: Camera, webcam, desktop and games. With 3D effects and HD.

Occupy Design is a grassroots project connecting designers with on-the-ground demonstrators in the Occupy Together movement. The project’s goal is to create freely available visual tools around a common graphic language to unite the 99%. The project places an emphasis on producing infographics and icons to improve the communication of the movement’s messages and the data surrounding them across the world.

ChoiceScript is a simple programming language for writing multiple-choice games (MCGs) like Choice of the Dragon. Writing games with ChoiceScript is easy and fun, even for authors with no programming experience.

If you are someone who is trying to style a theme, or looking to create a theme for public release, then these are some style elements that you might want to consider adding in your theme.

When an app makes a network connection, you see it instantly on your screen. There's no delay and you don't have to use a separate recording mode.

ShareCount is an open source script that collects the number of sharing activities in a single counter.

The third edition of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. Our aim is to provide a comprehensive, scholarly, and critical guide to science fiction in all its forms.

Asserting that one must first know the rules to break them, this classic reference book is a must-have for any student and conscientious writer. Intended for use in which the practice of composition is combined with the study of literature, it gives in brief space the principal requirements of plain English style and concentrates attention on the rules of usage and principles of composition most commonly violated.

Tumblrize crossposts your published WordPress entries to Tumblr and Posterous. All you need is a Tumblr account. Changes you make to your WordPress posts are reflected in your Tumblr posts.

A modern map design studio.

Automatically secure your Internet connection in unprotected wireless networks. Sidestep is an open-source application for Mac OS X that sits quietly in the background, protecting your security and privacy as you browse the web.

A pixelart-oriented painting program. Inspired by the Amiga programs Deluxe Paint and Brilliance. Specialized in 256-color drawing, it includes a very large number of tools and effects that make it particularly suitable for pixel art, game graphics, and generally any detailed graphics painted with a mouse.

Save OSM-data to Adobe Illustrator files, with nicely grouped layers.

Mendeley is a free reference manager and academic social network that can help you organize your research, collaborate with others online, and discover the latest research.

OneSwarm is a P2P file sharing service that protects your privacy.
It's fast, BitTorrent-compatible, and free!

BetterTouchTool lets you define tons of gestures for your Macbooks Trackpad, your MagicMouse and your MagicTrackpad. In addition to that it brings lots of new stuff to MacOS like Windows 7 like window snapping, window switchers etc...

A kind of interactive tag cloud Venn diagram for exploring topics/blogs.

Churn engine to distinguish journalism from churnalism.

Open source personal music server.

Glimmr (GLulx Image and MultiMedia Resources) is a framework of extensions for the Inform 7 interactive fiction authoring system.

Inform 7 can compile to the Glulx virtual machine, which supports complex windowed layouts, graphics, sound, mouse input, and more. Glimmr is intended to make these features—particularly graphics and mouse input—easily accessible to Inform 7 game authors.

In its simplest form, Glimmr supplies commands for drawing images files (PNG or JPEG), simple primitives (rectangles, boxes, lines), arbitrary bitmap images, and painted text. Through additional extensions, Glimmr also provides a full system for managing display of complex, dynamic compositions in a graphics window. These might include maps that progressively reveal themselves as the player moves through them, card games, etc.

We created the Gamification Wiki to accelerate the acceptance of Gamification, to help educate the world and to push the concept to the next level by creating the largest repository of information on the subject.

The fundamental question of the web.