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Manhattan is the capital of people living by themselves. But are New Yorkers lonelier? Far from it, say a new breed of loneliness researchers, who argue that urban alienation is largely a myth.

Nozbe is a web-based task manager and to-do list gtd software that will help your personal productivity - project management and time tracking. Nozbe's gtd software is available in your web browser and on your mobile phone and Apple iPhone. Inspired by David Allen's best-selling book "Getting Things Done - The Art of stress-free productivity".

Helvetireader is a userscript that pares down Google Reader to what I consider to be the essentials. In particular, it's made for looking at feeds in the expanded view, using Keyboard Shortcuts instead of on screen buttons. It’s not going to suit how everyone uses Google Reader, so you can take the CSS and fiddle and personalise to your hearts content!

Neighbourhood Boundaries // Uses the Flickr shapefiles to show you where the world thinks its neighbours are.

TankBooks pay homage to this monumentally successful piece of packaging design by employing it in the service of great literature. Cigarette packs are iconic objects, familiar, tried and tested, and over time TankBooks will become iconic objects in their own right. The launch titles are by authors of great stature – classic stories presented in classic packaging; objects desirable for both their literary merit and their unique design.

This post is an attempt to collect all the major Flash/AJAX/PHP photo galleries in jut one place. Most of them are entirely free of charge. Some, however, have some limitations to their free versions but is should not stop you from trying them.

"A Byte of Vim" is a book which aims to help you to learn how to use the Vim editor (version 7), even if all you know is how to use the computer keyboard.

ecommr is a website showcasing the best (and sometimes worst) in e-commerce design, with a clear focus on the individual elements that make up online stores. We break down retailers and focus on individual user interface elements in order to provide a gallery of inspiration for designers, developers, information architects, and anyone working with online retail. This site is run by a group of folks with a collective interest in user interface design for online retail. We continually scour the web for new ideas and trends in e-commerce, so we developed this site to serve as a resource for others like us.

UNetbootin allows for the installation of various Linux/BSD distributions to a partition or USB drive, so it's no different from a standard install, only it doesn't need a CD. It can create a dual-boot install, or replace the existing OS entirely.