Cool web app that taps into the Twitter API. Basically, you give it a feed URL and it will post updates to that RSS feed into your Twitter account.

.htaccess files make Apache so much easier to work with. Here is a decent list to get you started.

This is a really nice Wordpress plugin that gives every widget an extra control field called "Widget logic" that lets you control the pages that the widget will appear on.

Turn your Wordpress post categories into a search powerhouse! This plugin gives you the ability to provide your users with a widget full of dropdowns based upon parent categories and their sub-categories.

A great list of 45 plugins and tutorials on Noupe about using jQuery to make your website's navigation both creative and usable.

Sphider is a lightweight web spider and search engine written in PHP, using MySQL as its back end database. It is a great tool for adding search functionality to your web site or building your custom search engine. Sphider is small, easy to set up and modify, and is used in thousands of websites across the world.

Lifehacker has a good article on how you can have texts sent to your Google Voice account get sent to your IM client. Pretty cool.

Designers have been harassing developers about using fonts other than the "web standards" since the dawn of the internet (or so I could imagine). It does seem like we are getting closer as this post on paulirish.com shows.

A nice write up with some good code examples on ways to preload images (particularly helpful if you are using CSS background images to create rollovers). I went with "JavaScript Method #1".

Darren's new site, which highlights his experiences in marketing, interactive, and broadcast production.