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Jeffrey’s “Export to Google Drive” Lightroom Plugin. Hmm, let's see - I'm currently using Picasa to reach G+, but GDrive might also be an option. Especially since I can also get the pictures back directly as I uploaded them. In the end, it's the question of which way is faster.

misfo/Shell-Turtlestein. If you work with Sublime Text 2 and use many command line tools, this plugin is very helpful - you can execute commands directly from ST2 and get the results displayed directly there. Commands run directly in the directory of the current window or you can also start a terminal there immediately. Very practical for alternative build systems, or to quickly search for something in the directory with grep.

jQuery Masonry. Alternative to BlocksIt. Worth checking out. Even pushes blocks more aggressively, rearranges the order if necessary.

BlocksIt.js - Dynamic Grid Layout jQuery Plugin. That's what it says. Sounds quite interesting, I have to check it out.

Kronuz/SublimeCodeIntel. CodeIntel is a port of the Komodo Code Intelligence to SublimeText2. With this, you can almost refer to ST2 as an IDE.

ThinkUp: Social Media Insights Platform. I definitely want to check this out - a tool that collects your own social activities (well, they're not always that social) via various APIs and combines them. And in a self-hosted database. Supports Twitter, Facebook, and Google+ and evaluates the data collection according to various criteria. And with Social Timeline there is then a tool for displaying as a timeline, which could be integrated into your own blog. This could even be a much more pleasant variant than importing all posts from social networks into your own blog.

Google+ Importer for WordPress » Sutherland Boswell. I'm currently considering whether I might want to integrate this - it automatically imports public Google+ posts. I would probably need to adjust something to turn the posts into asides, but that shouldn't be too complicated. Maybe the tool can already do that directly. The question is whether it makes sense to bring the posts from Google+ over - especially with the image posts, I already get them later and mirror them in my media data. But the text-only posts would also end up here, which might be quite useful. I'll have to think about it a few more times.

zenphoto-publisher - Lightroom 3 Publisher plugin for Zenphoto. Maybe I should take a look at this - with this I can export directly from Lightroom to ZenPhoto. I usually have my pictures in my blog, but for larger quantities it's a bit cumbersome, so an alternative site for galleries would be quite practical, especially since I can then integrate ZenPhoto into WordPress again.

Commentpress. I should check this out, it's a comment system that doesn't happen under posts, but in the margins of texts related to paragraphs. Actually a funny idea if you have longer texts. Okay, I almost only post single paragraphs, but I find the integration of comments quite nice - so the rendering of these small speech bubbles in which the comments then expand (at the moment, comments on my site are rather neglected, as they only appear on the detail pages, which are not even linked from the front for my short paragraph posts).

WordPress Germany FAQ » Privacy notes on the use of Akismet in Germany. Found at Schockwellenreiter and also implemented - I already had the explanation in the imprint, now the checkbox when commenting has also been added. It might be a bit cumbersome for the three people who comment here from time to time, but I think it's bearable. Especially since there are other ways to comment - your own blog posts, or tweeting, facebooking or googleplussing (there's also a privacy-compliant user consent for that), so you can choose where you want to leave your data traces. (And of course, you can also simply send me an email to the email address listed in the imprint, which then works without consent - but be careful, my email provider is Google! They are evil!)

vim-orgmode - Text outlining and task management for Vim based on Emacs' Org-Mode : vim online. Who wants OrgMode but finds the Emacs key layout simply sick (which could be about 99% of all VIM users), now there is also OrgMode for VIM. As a plugin. I myself mostly use VimWiki, but maybe I'll check out VimOrgMode as well, it sounds quite interesting (although I have connected VimWiki with Trunknotes to edit things on the go - but there is also an iPhone app for that).

2 Click Social Media Buttons « WordPress Plugins. Similar to the previous plugin, but this one is now based on the code from Heise. And it has a nice explanatory component with a link to the Heise article. I've integrated it, so you can like me, +1 me, and tweet!

mutle/vim.safariextension - GitHub. Another VI keyboard control for Safari, which I actually quite like - but unfortunately it doesn't have link navigation, so you apparently still have to use the mouse. Too bad, because that's actually something like the killer feature - on the other hand, both this one and vimlike are open source, maybe I should just sit down and combine the two (or build a patch for one of the two that adds the missing features).

vimlike-onsafari - Safari keybind changes like VIM. - Google Project Hosting. Hmm, thinly documented, but the essentials seem to work. So the navigation keys and following links. And unlike previous tests, it no longer gets confused when styling the link hints.

The Xavisys WordPress Plugin Framework - Xavisys. Interesting if you want to build your own plugins for WordPress, as it takes care of some of the standard tasks and makes the code simpler.

BuddyPress.org. Just stumbled upon it again when it came to self-hosted social networks. BuddyPress somehow always flies under the radar, but it's quite an interesting development with all the features of WordPress - including, for example, all login integrations and similar. And there are also separate plugins for BuddyPress, such as the BuddyPress Media Plugin, with which you can create your own Flickr from a BuddyPress installation. And there are countless more things, up to commercial plugins for various purposes. And additionally, you can use all WordPress themes and build on them.

Elemental - Integrating Photoshop Elements with Lightroom. I should check this out, as the integration of PSE as a simple external editor is quite limited and cumbersome.

ShareMeNot. Firefox extension that filters out the various social buttons, so that the corresponding services cannot see the visited pages (because this data is also transmitted when the buttons are not clicked - for example, the icon is usually hosted by the service provider and they can see the visited pages in the logs via the referrer, provided you are logged in to one of the services, they can also see the user who visited the page via the login cookie).

Auto Refresh Plus - Chrome Web Store. For good reason, my interest in such things has been piqued. On the Mac, I of course have more comfortable tools, but to simply refresh a webpage until it has a defined change, this one is more than enough.

realmacsoftwares SDKs auf GitHub - why I'm dealing with RapidWeaver again: the SDKs are now freely available on GitHub and look quite interesting - and if there are SDKs for IDEs, I'm almost automatically curious.

SiteMap Loghound.com. Ok, another plugin - this one generates a sitemap, both HTML and the Google XML format for search engine integration. I'll have to check first what RapidWeaver 5 already offers out of the box compared to RapidWeaver 4 (as with others).

PlusKit Loghound.com. Another quite interesting plugin for RapidWeaver, with which you can do a whole range of integration tasks. For example, embedding Google Docs, including other pages, Spotlight-Search and global search in large RapidWeaver projects and automatic Lightbox for RapidWeaver galleries. The latter is particularly interesting and PlusKit is also a prerequisite for Motivate, a quite interesting layout for RapidWeaver sites. And with SymNivo there are then funny transitions for the display of automatic presentations. That is then again the disadvantage of RapidWeaver: thousands of small doodads and gimmicks, probably you play more with the installation than with the actual site ...

RapidScript - I've been playing around with RapidWeaver again (for some purposes, creating static websites is quite interesting) and stumbled upon this plugin. Nice idea, you can generate page content via AppleScript, which is directly embedded in the RapidWeaver database. This makes pseudodynamic content possible - generated from external sources, but still static output. I found this in this quite nice thematic list of RapidWeaver plugins. The list is definitely more useful than the big grab bag at RealMacSoftware, which has no thematic grouping.

Mozilla Firefox Add-on Builder and SDK - for creating extensions with HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript. The Builder is a web-based IDE and the SDK provides a whole stack of APIs for programming extensions.

LR/Blog – Export directly from Lightroom 2 to your Blog!. I didn't have this for some reason, but now I do. With this, you can export photos directly into the WordPress media library to use them in posts. Could help me in cases where I don't want to take the detour via Flickr.

JQuery Form Wizard. Interesting small plugin that processes complex forms through steps - and the routes through the form can depend on the data chosen in a previous step. Additionally, #-hacks are used to make the form steps appear in the history (in this form, this is absolutely fine in my opinion).

Roundabout for jQuery by Fred LeBlanc. Nice effect, even if I'm not sure right now what I would need it for (ok, you could use it to display images, but personally I prefer Lightbox or something similar). It's probably just a gimmick, but sometimes that's quite useful.

Infinite Scroll WordPress Plugin - nice effect, when the end of the page is reached, the next page is automatically loaded and mixed in via JavaScript - so pages are built endlessly until all blog content is there. Facebook and Flickr have been doing this for some time and I somehow find it better than these "older posts" and "newer posts" links. Without JavaScript, the links should still appear, search engines will continue to index everything (although a Google Sitemap helps a lot in this regard), so it shouldn't cause any harm.

Lightroom Developer Center. Since I want to take a closer look at this again soon, maybe I will create my own plugin for easy sync to WordPress after all. And Lua is not such a terrible language.

Pressbox « WordPress Plugins. I wanted to build this myself all the time, but now it's already available. I could take a look at it - with this you can select images from Dropbox and insert them into posts. Since I'm using Dropbox a lot for images, this would be quite practical - but I first have to check if the image is then brought to the WordPress server, or if it remains on Dropbox - I want my media files to be on my own servers.

ZenphotoPress is a WordPress plugin that allows you to access images and galleries in ZenPhoto from WordPress. Since you can upload entire folders to ZenPhoto via FTP or other methods (e.g., by simply linking the Albums directory to Dropbox), and thus easily get images into galleries, you can also quickly and easily access these images in WordPress. Might be something as a tinkering project, as I'm still looking for simple ways to feed my photo blog from Lightroom.

obensonne / hg-autosync. An extension for Mercurial that implements automatic syncs between working directories via a central repository. Can be executed manually as a command or in daemon mode (then it simply runs cyclically at intervals). This way you can do something like a controlled Dropbox - only the included files are synchronized. I would prefer a combination of inotify and xmpp Notify instead of the interval solution - this way the daemon would not constantly start up. But something like this could perhaps even be built from it. Update there is already such a thing.

philikon / weaveclient-chromium. Hmm, a Mozilla Sync client as an extension for Chrome. Unfortunately, there is nowhere properly indicated how to install it and some comments on the net suggest that it probably does not run stably with newer versions. But maybe still take a look if I find some spare time. With this I could then, for example, connect Chrome on Mac or Linux with Firefox Mobile on Android. Since on Android the normal browser can't even sync with Google's own desktop browser (which is really embarrassing), this might be something.

Blurb Plug-In For Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3 | Blurb. Wow, that sounds really good - the books are priced as a real alternative to those from iPhoto and the available options sound good too - and even the shipping costs are not really problematic with normal Priority-Mail. I really need to check it out, because at the moment I always have to push my photos through iPhoto. Additionally, Blurb also allows you to sell photo books online (if it should not only be private books).

PayPal Money Module « Snoopy Pfeffer’s Blog. The original article in which Snoopy describes a bit more about the extensions to Adam Frisby's DTL PayPal Money Module. Not up to date regarding installation, but the features still fit.

SnoopyPfeffer/Mod-PayPal - GitHub. I should take a closer look at this, as it allows you to use PayPal as a money module in OpenSim. It might be interesting if I ever want to revive and share my OpenSim projects again. It is based on OpenSim 0.7.1, so I can only try it out when the new Diva D2 is released (which is already in the works).

Tagbar, the Vim class browser. Seems to be a bit of a souped-up Taglist for VIM. Provides hierarchical views of defined classes, methods, and functions in a project.

Photosmith – The Grand Tour | Photosmith – the iPad mobile companion for Adobe Lightroom. Hmm - interesting approach. An app that syncs with Lightroom via a plugin and makes capturing metadata and rating photos on the iPad easier. However, I use a MacBook Air, which is already compact enough for the purpose - and has the advantage of a real keyboard (not necessarily wrong for metadata capture) and can run Lightroom directly. But for a vacation trip, it might be quite cool - import photos via CCK and then tag them there and transfer them later.

jRumble | A jQuery Plugin That Rumbles Elements. The new blink tag! (okay, there are indeed sensible applications, e.g., if you want to briefly display an element on the webpage to indicate that something has happened there - similar to bouncing icons in the OSX Dock).

WordPress › Really Static « WordPress Plugins. Well blogged, because it allows you to generate static pages directly from WordPress (this could also be done with WP Super Cache and its directly cached pages, but these are not automatically updated) and perhaps this could be an interesting way in the long run. Okay, I would probably have to forego some elements to make the whole thing work without "artefacts" - but many of them are actually dispensable. For example, a tag cloud would be frozen at the state of the last rendering if it is part of the page. Similarly, information such as "latest comments" or "latest posts". The same goes for calendars, which have more marked days on newer pages than on older ones. This is also the main reason why I have repeatedly abandoned baked sites - on the other hand, are these problem cases really important for a blog?

LR/Blog - Send images to your blog from Adobe Lightroom. I had already found another plugin for this, but this one is more flexible and supports other blog types as well (down to "naked" MetaWeblogAPI). However, I don't know if it works with Lightroom 3 and newer WordPress versions ...

"Press Kit" « Lucs Journal. A plugin for Lightroom that can export directly to the Wordpress Media Library or a NextGEN Gallery. However, of course again via xmlrpc.php, which I only reluctantly enable due to the more frequent security issues with it.

Because I'm not looking for something like this for the first time and it looks quite practical: Sorting elements with jQuery – James Padolsey.

Vimari - Keyboard Shortcuts extension for Safari - GitHub. A bit like Vimium for Chrome, but can do significantly fewer tricks (and the links seem to be affected by the page CSS, which is why the QuickLinks look weird on my website)

Who is used to Vi and uses Chrome: Vimium provides Vi-like keyboard control for Chrome. After a short period of getting used to it, it is really very useful and can significantly help in reducing the strain on the mouse hand.

Home of the WordPress Wiki Plugin. Not sure if I really want something like this, but it could potentially be interesting in the long run, should I ever be struck by another bout of documentation mania. First blogged, you never know. It looked the most interesting of the WordPress-integrated wikis, though.

Embedder Plugin Home | moztools. Bookmarked for later - I once had a simple snippet/glossary/macro/embed plugin for WordPress, but this one looks like I should use it instead of making my own. It seems very practical for quickly entering frequently recurring snippets.

Those who prefer to work with the keyboard rather than the mouse (or other pointing devices) can use gleeBox plugins for Firefox, Chrome, and Safari. This makes it quite efficient to operate a browser - and for my tortured right hand, it is sometimes better than reaching for the trackball.