Quite Useful Weekly Roundup

This week we featured two articles on The London Underground: iPhone Tube Apps and Hack the Tube.  Hack the Tube includes Ruby and JavaScript code for writing your own apps that process Tube data based on the Tube Updates API.

If you’re wondering why your computer is so short of disk space then check out our roundup of disk analysis tools: Where’s My Space Gone?

We also had an event review for Rewired State, a gathering of hackers tasked to do imaginative things with open government data.

Finally, if you’re looking for inspiration for the weekend read Learn Something New Today.

Designer and Developer

Tree is an interesting Mac OS outliner tool.  It provides a useful way of structuring creative work, and works with OPML imports.

oocss is an object oriented CSS framework that includes features like grids and a reset stylesheet.

Rails Magazine was released this week, you can order the magazine for around $8 or wait for the PDF.

Social Networks

Twendz is an interesting way of exploring and monitoring Twitter.  Monittor is a similar tool, with some widgets for your site/blog.

Nanocrowd gets movie recommendations based on viewer comments.