Quite Useful Weekly Roundup

This week we published a summary of all our features over the past few months.  There’s everything from media centre tips to hacking websites with screen scraping.  We also tracked the memory performance of several popular Twitter clients — useful information if you leave Twitter in the background all day!

We also reviewed Streamy, a new social networking site that brings together your other networks into one place.

Here are my picks from our Twitter posts this week.

Designer and Developer

Styleneat is a handy little tool for tidying up CSS.  It works with uploaded CSS, pasted or from a URL.  It adds syntax highlighting in the results as well.

Getting Ready for Core Data in 3.0 is a list of Core Data resources for iPhone developers.  Apple’s adding Core Data support in the new iPhone software, which will make managing data easier.  It will be familiar to existing Cocoa developers.

Building OAuth Compliant Twitter Apps in Ruby explains how to use OAuth in your Ruby projects.  Twitter applications no longer need to store usernames and passwords, so it’s worth reading if you’re building something in this area.

Social

Wikirank shows trends on Wikipedia.  In case you’re wondering how they can track how popular Wikipedia pages are, they explain it all on the Wikirank About page:

the charts on Wikirank are based on logs from Wikipedia’s HTTP Squid proxy servers. That means every single page load is recorded, whether initiated by a human with a browser or a Web spider crawling through

iStopOver is a cool idea: it provides a way of finding homes with rooms to rent when you’re travelling.  I thought it was US only at first, but they’ve got country controls at the top right of each page.

Tweleted helps you find deleted tweets.  It actually works, which means you can now find each other’s spelling mistakes.