30
Design
15.05.2013
Red Pen - Super simple feedback app.
Get annotated feedback on your designs, quickly and easily. Very slick, if you can stand the horrible, overly friendly copy.
15.04.2013
Merize Icons - 300 free icons in circles.
You may use these icons for both commercial and personal projects and customize them any way you like.
07.03.2013
iconoci - royalty-free icons for designers
Look - there's a rainbow in there and everything. Never seen a weatherman predict a rainbow, but it's in there if he does...
01.03.2013
Paperkit - Custom, printable paper templates.
Paperkit offers designers free, custom paper templates in grid, dotted and lined formats. Simply adjust the settings and save as PDF.
04.02.2013
BLOKK font - A font made of blocks
BLOKK is a font for quick mock-ups and wireframing for clients who do not understand latin.
28.11.2012
Cedvel - Grid Building System
Cedvel is a prototype application for designing custom grid systems.
7
Services
21.02.2013
Koken - Creative web site publishing
Koken is a free system designed for photographers, designers, and creative DIYs to publish independent web sites of their work.
04.12.2012
Bug Herd - Gather User Feedback
BugHerd helps web developers get detailed feedback from their users and clients.
27.09.2012
Prevue - Image sharing app
Another way to share your designs with clients. Not as straightforward as flatsies, but with extra functionality like note sharing.
26.09.2012
Flatsies - A quick and easy way to present your work
A simple, elegant solution to presenting design work. The background colour detection is a nice touch.
14.08.2012
Lebowski Ipsum - filler text service for little urban achievers
Sometimes there's a man, sometimes… there's a man. Aw. I lost my train of thought here. But… aw, hell. I've done introduced him enough.
11.07.2012
StatusCake - Free Uptime Monitor
Another alternative to the somewhat expensive Pingdom, StatusCake lets you monitor sites for free and will (I assume) notify you via email, Skype, or a custom URL that you can optionally provide. TXT would be nice guys.
6
eBooks
28.01.2013
Pixel Perfect Precision Handbook - From Us Two
A really good guide on how to keep your design work as sharp as possible from Us Two.
23.01.2013
UX Design for Startups - Free eBook
127 pages of real-life based advice from Marcin Treder
14.11.2012
Web Design and Usability Guidelines from usability.gov
The Research-Based Web Design and Usability Guidelines, compiled through an extensive process of research and review.
14.11.2012
Web Designers Success Guide eBook from Kevin Airgid
His will have to do since I haven't written mine yet...
14.11.2012
Various useful ebooks from FontShop
A good selection of guides and tips from the likes of Erik Spiekermann available as free PDF downloads.
6
Back End
22.02.2013
Concrete5 cheat sheet
A cheat sheet for C5 developers. Information was compiled from emails, documentation and the Concrete5 support forums.
22.02.2013
Concrete5 Cookbook
Recipes and tutorials for implementing features in your Concrete5-based website. Intended to provide additional context to developers beyond the official C5 documentation.
11.10.2012
Anchor CMS - Free Open-source PHP based CMS
'Anchor is a content management system, written in PHP5, built for art-directed posts' And it's free. Which is nice.
07.07.2012
Concrete5 - goodbye WordPress, goodbye Drupal.
Inevitable that I post this, having managed 200+ sites with it over the years. Concrete5 simply outclasses the other main players. Move you (or your client) from WordPress to C5, & the veil will be lifted. Easy to use, & getting better with every release
12.06.2012
Berta - Free flexible CMS
Berta is a fast simple and free CMS. Drag and drop interface and flexible grid.
5
Front End
07.07.2012
Bigtext.js - web text that automatically scales
Take control of your headings: web text that automatically scales to the width of its parent element.
06.07.2012
Lorem Pixel - Dummy image generation
Choose from a range of categories, set your size and a random image will be generated for you. They will even host it too.
13.06.2012
BX Slider - Another (not half bad) jQuery slider.
Lots of options, easy to implement and free (or you can donate some beer money).
13.06.2012
Little Ipsum - Mac app that generates Lorem Ipsum
The best* Latin text generator for OS X. Incredibly quick and lightweight. And it’s completely free! *Not endorsed by Nylllon.
3
Apps
29.01.2013
Zen Pen - A Minimal Online Writing App
A minimalist writing zone, where you can block out all distractions and get to whats important. Very nice it is too.
20.06.2012
Satellite Eyes - Interesting desktop app
Satellite Eyes is a simple Mac app that automatically changes your desktop wallpaper to the satellite view of where you are, right now.
19.06.2012
Trello - Free project management
Comprehensive project management app based on boards and lists. Looks good so far.
3
Misc
24.07.2012
Docracy - Free legal documents
Need an NDA or a Freelance contract but can't afford a lawyer? Docracy might well be the solution.
14.06.2012
True Marble Global Maps - Free high-res imagery from Unearthed Outdoors
Available in (massive) GeoTIFF and PNG.
13.06.2012
High quality multitouch gestures (PSD's)
Mock up your touch screen apps with these delightful hands. From the good people at Octave & Octave