• solo – is a very simple script (10 lines) that prevents a program from running more than one copy at a time. It is useful with cron to make sure that a job doesn't run before a previous one has finished
• teamocil – is a tool used to automatically create sessions, windows and splits in tmux with Ruby and YAML. Like tmuxinator, but with splits, not just windows.
• BoxCryptor – is a cryptographic virtual harddisk that encrypts all data on-the-fly using the AES-256 standard. Encrypted data is stored in an arbitrary directory of your choice, e.g. one that is synced to the cloud like your Dropbox folder.
• ColorPicker Pro – is an easy to use color detection tool for developers and designers.
• auto_torrent – Give it a list of stuff to look out for, set your bittorrent client’s ‘watch’ directory to match auto_torrent’s download directory, infringe copyright without lifting a finger.
• Supervisor – is a client/server system that allows its users to monitor and control a number of processes on UNIX-like operating systems.
• Jump – type j in a terminal, and enter your query at the prompt: results will be updated live as you type. Switch between suggestions with up and down arrow, select with enter and boom you’re in the right directory. Basically, all the fancy web 2.0 autosuggest mojo right in your terminal.
• Vigor – the popular Unix editor vi with the addition of the Vigor Assistant, has arrived.
• Conque – is a Vim plugin which allows you to run interactive programs, such as bash on linux or powershell.exe on Windows, inside a Vim buffer. In other words it is a terminal emulator which uses a Vim buffer to display the program output.

• cronwhip – is a simple script to run cronjobs that would have been run since the last system shutdown.
• html2txt – is a Python script that converts a page of HTML into clean, easy-to-read plain ASCII text. Better yet, that ASCII also happens to be valid Markdown
• Asciiflow – Diagramme. In Ascii-Art. Awesome.
• The Great Typekit Table –
• Subtle Patterns – High quality patterns for your next web project
• Useful HTML-, CSS- and JavaScript Tools and Libraries –
• Active Directory Topology Diagrammer – reads an Active Directory configuration using LDAP, and then automatically generates a Visio diagram of your Active Directory and /or your Exchange Server topology.
• Gity – yet another open source git client for OS X
• csshx – is a tool to allow simultaneous control of multiple SSH sessions through OS X Terminal.app
• TuneConnect 2 – iTunes remote control software for Mac OS X
• tools-osx – A small collection of command line tools for Mac OS X, incl.: clipcat, eject, swuser & trash.

Ist es nicht erstaunlich, wie sehr Geeks wie du und ich¹ sich Gedanken darüber machen, wie sich Computer und anderes technisches Gerät in den Wohnraum und damit das Leben² integrieren lassen?

Man nehme nur dieses neue MacBook Air. Oder dieses iPad. Je nachdem, was einem eben besser passt… Der ganze Sinn dieser Formfaktoren scheint ja darin zu bestehen, immer und überall dabei zu sein, respektive auf dem Couchtisch eine gute Figur zu machen. Aber der Hauptcomputer³ steht halt immer noch irgendwo rum. Selbst, wenn ein 13″ Air als Hauptcomputer dient⁴, ist so ein Arbeitsplatz mit großem Bildschirm, externer Tastatur und Maus Trackball Trackpad Zeigegerät doch durch nicht sehr viel zu ersetzen…

Daher mache ich mir, obwohl ich auf absehbare Zeit keinen Schreibtisch mehr zuhaus haben werde und eigentlich auch schon ein 15″ MacBook Pro als nächster Computer eingeplant ist, hin und wieder Gedanken, was man denn da so schickes einsetzen könnte um den Hauptcomputer schick im Wohnraum zu platzieren.

Studio Desk

Mir gefällt beispielsweise dieses Studio Desk total gut:

Der Hersteller verlangt zwar geschmeidige 600 $, aber schick ist der allemal und der Verzicht auf sichtbare Kabelführung ist sicher den ein oder anderen Euro wert… Der Hersteller, Bluelounge, verkauft auch allerlei anderen Orga-Kram der auch gut auf eher normale Schreibtische passt.

BookArc Stand Ebenfalls passend für so gut wie jeden Schreibtisch ist der BookArc Stand. Er bietet einem MacBook eine angemessene Ruhestätte während die Arbeit auf einem großen Bildschirm stattfindet. Für mich wäre das eher nichts, ich finde Multi-Monitor-Setups einfach zu praktisch…

Auch dieser Hersteller, Twelve South, hat noch so einige andere Design-Höhepunke im Angebot. Besonders für das iPad gibt es gelungene Lösungen für die Aufbewahrung und den Transport des schmucken Computers.

WallDock

Aber kommen wir mal lieber zu realistischen und trotzdem sehr praktischen Helfern. Mit dem Walldock kann man Steckdosen zu praktischen iPhone-Ladestationen umfunktionieren. Und in der Küche hat man gleichzeitig eine Möglichkeit, das Rezept des gerade herzustellenden Gerichts in einem angenehmen Lesewinkel vor sich zu haben.

So eine Ladestation wäre vor allem deshalb praktisch, weil wir an dem mini im Wohnzimmer⁵ nur ein Dock haben…

iMac mini Schreibtisch

Wir haben daheim vor wenigen Tagen Wochen⁶ unseren Esstisch um Wohnzimmer um 90° gedreht. Er steht nun nicht mehr mit der langen, sondern mit der schmalen Seite an der Wand. Auf diese Art und Weise haben wir Platz geschaffen, um ein Sideboard oder eine Vitrine oder ähnliches stellen zu können. Sollte das aber vielleicht doch nicht so schrecklich nötig sein,⁷ so könnte man ja einen sehr schmalen Schreibtisch aus Ikea-Standard Teilen bauen:

Nein, ergonomisch sieht das nicht gerade aus, und nein, vielleicht ist das auch nicht so richtig praktisch. Eventuell entpuppt sich das auch in Kombination mit einem 27″ iMac als nicht sonderlich stabil und dann fiele dieser iMac ja herunter…

Aber: Es sieht total super aus, ist gar nicht so teuer⁸ und allein weil es geht beschäftigt mich das sehr…

1. Da du dieses bescheidene Blog liest, ist es recht wahrscheinlich, dass du einer bist. Falls nicht, hey, es ist nie zu spät…
2. in deins und das deiner Mitbewohner…
3. Von mir im vor zwei Sätzen verlinkten Post etwas despektierlich Arbeitstier genannt
4. Seriously: Wenn ihr nur ein Review lesen wollt, lest dieses.
5. Der Medien-Computer des Haushalts, da werden die iPhones auch mit iTunes gesynct
6. Kinder, wie die Zeit vergeht…
7. Wir haben uns wirklich von ganz schön viel Zeug getrennt. BTW, hat jemand Interesse an Teetassen?
8. Jaja, von diesem iMac mal abgesehen, ich weiß…

• Notational Velocity forked – Fullscreen mode, menubar app, and more…
• MultiMarkdown Syntax Guide – This is a guide to the markup syntax used in the MultiMarkdown system.
• WriteMonkey – is light, fast, and perfectly handy for those who enjoy the simplicity of a typewriter but live in modern times.
• PDF Mod – is a simple application for modifying PDF documents. You can reorder, rotate, and remove pages, export images from a document, edit the title, subject, author, and keywords, and combine documents via drag and drop.
• Emergent Task Planner – is a Daily Planning Sheet that provides a way for you to lightly structure your day. By helping you visualize the time you have, you can get a sense of just how much work you can get done done.
• LiveView – is a specialized remote screen viewing application intended as a tool to help designers create graphics for mobile applications, it has also proven to be useful for creating quick and dirty simulations, demos, and experience prototypes.
• we eat fine – "… ist eine sammlung von rezepten, die wir in unserem alltäglichen leben zubereiten. essen spiegelt für uns eine lebensphilosophie wieder und ist für uns (meistens) gleichbedeutend mit entspannung, genuss, kommunikation und kreativität." Bei der Kesro gefunden…
• SparkleShare – is a syncing and collaboration tool that shines by its absence. Attempts to become a open source, self hosting, git based Dropbox clone…

• sshuttle – Transparent proxy server that works as a poor man's VPN. Forwards over ssh. Doesn't require admin access.
• mNote – for Android is a fast notepad for Android allowing for offline local note editing, managment, and searching. In addition, mNote synchronizes with Simplenote
• Dirpy – is an advanced DVR for your favorite online media. For example, use Dirpy to record your favorite YouTube videos to mp3s!
• Git for the lazy – This guide is for people who want to jump to any point in time with their project/game/whatever, and want something to use for themselves.
• DiG HOWTO – How to use dig to query DNS name servers
• 100 Free High Quality WordPress Themes: 2010 Edition –
• PosteRazor – The PosteRazor cuts a raster image into pieces which can afterwards be printed out and assembled to a poster.
• Soulver – It's quicker to use than a spreadsheet, and smarter and clearer than a traditional calculator.

• collectd – is a daemon which collects system performance statistics periodically and provides mechanisms to store the values in a variety of ways, for example in RRD files.
• CSVed – is an easy and powerful CSV file editor, you can manipulate any CSV file, separated with any separator.
• Simple Desktops – is a collection of desktop wallpapers curated by Tom Watson designed to make your computer beautiful without distraction.
• Continuous Integration – is a software development practice where members of a team integrate their work frequently, usually each person integrates at least daily – leading to multiple integrations per day. Each integration is verified by an automated build (including test) to detect integration errors as quickly as possible. Many teams find that this approach leads to significantly reduced integration problems and allows a team to develop cohesive software more rapidly. This article is a quick overview of Continuous Integration summarizing the technique and its current usage.
• Ultimate solution to weird UTF character encoding problem – Due to different formats of storing characters in the database, sometimes you may encounter problem with strange characters (like —) appearing in your WordPress posts. This can especially happen when moving the site to a different server, a process during which your database needs to be exported and imported.
• Why Your Employees Are Losing Motivation – Business literature is packed with advice about worker motivation—but sometimes managers are the problem, not the inspiration. Here are seven practices to fire up the troops. From Harvard Management Update.
• smitten kitchen Recipe Index – Fearless cooking from a tiny kitchen in New York City with delicious photos…
• Uniform – masks your standard form controls with custom themed controls. It works in sync with your real form elements to ensure accessibility and compatibility.
• vi Complete Key Binding List – This is not intended as a tutorial. It is a reference on what every vi key binding does, followed by some useful vi tricks and tips. An expert will probably know most of these already, but an intermediate vi user will find valuable information, and even an expert may learn a thing or two.
• Ephemera – will comfortably synchronize your ebook reader with Instapaper.com via USB. It works with the Amazon Kindle, Sony readers and pretty much any device capable of reading HTML, Mobipocket or EPUB files.

• kSar – kSar Version 5 is a java application that graph your sar data. It can graph sar text output from Solaris,Linux,AIX,HPUX,Mac OS/X. It also permit to export data to PDF/JPG/PNG/CSV. You can load dat from three method : local file, local command excetion, and remote command execution via SSH
• MySQL Workbench – is a cross-platform, visual database design tool developed by MySQL. It is the highly anticipated successor application of the DBDesigner4 project. MySQL Workbench will be available as a native GUI tool on Window, Linux and OS X.
• QuickCursor – For Mac users to use their favorite text editor everywhere. QuickCursor allows you to edit text from any application in your favorite text editor.
• The Ten Minute Guide to diff and patch –
• MyLogon – is a Network-oriented logon applet for Windows

• MagicPrefs – is a free menubar application for OSX which aims to improve the functionality and configuration options of the Apple Magic Mouse. It features the ability to bind a variable number of finger clicks and taps to functions like Middle Click , Hold Down Both Mouse Buttons , Spaces , Expose, Dashboard etc.
• Sequenz – Take photos with your iSight and upload them
• Balsamiq Mockups – Extremely slick tool for great looking mockups of GUIs…
• iTunes Remote – is a simple web interface that allows you to control iTunes over the web.
• vitunes – is a curses-based playlist manager and media player for *nix operating systems with vim-like keybinds.

• FormulatePro – helps you open and write on PDF documents. You can fill out any PDF form document, drop in graphics, scribble with the mouse or a tablet, save and print.
• Dia – is roughly inspired by the commercial Windows program 'Visio', though more geared towards informal diagrams for casual use. It can be used to draw many different kinds of diagrams. It currently has special objects to help draw entity relationship diagrams, UML diagrams, flowcharts, network diagrams, and many other diagrams. It is also possible to add support for new shapes by writing simple XML files, using a subset of SVG to draw the shape.
• bananajour – is local git repository hosting with a sexy web interface and Bonjour discovery. It's like a bunch of adhoc, local, network-aware githubs!
• LaTeX to WordPress – is a program that converts a LaTeX file into something that is ready to be cut and pasted into WordPress.
• Name Mangler – if you need to rename several files at once every now and then, this is the application you have always been looking for.
• Wallpaper Junie – With WJ you can view and download InterfaceLIFT wallpapers(over 2000 available).
• EventSync – is an application for OS X that allows you to sync your Facebook Events with iCal. Now you will never miss the next party, meeting, or any other event that is posted on Facebook.
• ikiwiki – is a wiki compiler. It converts wiki pages into HTML pages suitable for publishing on a website. Ikiwiki stores pages and history in a revision control system such as Subversion or Git. There are many other features, including support for blogging, as well as a large array of plugins.
• flogr – shows your pictures from flickr in a customizable photo portfolio interface which includes a main photo page with EXIF details and flickr user comments, a customizable thumbnails page of your recent work, a slideshow component to browse through thumbnails, a tag cloud page, and an about page that shows your flickr user profile.

• [Full-disclosure] Windows Vista/7 : SMB2.0 NEGOTIATE PROTOCOL REQUEST Remote B.S.O.D. – Killing any Windows Vista/7 with enabled SMB over the network…
• Dropbox SnowLeopard Service – These services will appear in every contextual menu of files. You are now just 2 clicks away from posting something to Dropbox!
• Top 7 Fonts Used By Professionals In Graphic Design – 7 beautiful Fonts!
• Caching Apple's Signature Server –
• Configuration Management Using Puppet – This book is a configuration management workshop wrapped around puppet, the next-generation configuration management utility that has proven to be simple, straightforward, flexible, scalable, stable, fast, extensible and most importantly, truely Free.