QuickLinks vom 28. Dezember bis zum 15. Januar

Meine pinboard.in-Links vom 28. Dezember bis zum 15. Januar:

  • Bip – is an IRC proxy, which means it keeps connected to your preferred IRC servers, can store the logs for you, and even send them back to your IRC client(s) upon connection.
  • KNC – is Kerberised NetCat. It works in basically the same way as either netcat or stunnel except that it is Kerberised. You can use it to construct client/server applications while keeping the Kerberos libraries out of your programs address space quickly and easily.
  • glark – A replacement for (or supplement to) the grep family, glark offers: Perl compatible regular expressions, highlighting of matches, context around matches, complex expressions, and automatic exclusion of non-text files.
  • runiq – functions in a manner quite similar to GNU uniq, but runiq allows you to specify keys based on regular expressions in stead of field or the first N characters.
  • TrID – is an utility designed to identify file types from their binary signatures. While there are similar utilities with hard coded logic, TrID has no fixed rules. Instead, it's extensible and can be trained to recognize new formats in a fast and automatic way.
  • DropIt – A tiny, flexible, hard-working tool to automate sorting and filing data-files and folders.
  • droopy – is a mini Web server whose sole purpose is to let others upload files to your computer.
  • Markdown QuickTags – is a plugin for WordPress which replaces the HTML editor with a Markdown-enabled set of buttons and features.
  • DIY Star Wars Snowflakes – Paper-snowflakes going Star Wars
  • Melo – Very cool looking last.fm client for Mac OS X

QuickLinks vom 9. Dezember bis zum 24. Dezember

Meine pinboard.in-Links vom 9. Dezember bis zum 24. Dezember:

  • Blat – is a Win32 command line utility that sends eMail using SMTP or post to usenet using NNTP.
  • TouchCursor – lets you use the home keys as cursor keys – in all Windows programs – keeping your fingers in the best position for fast typing.
  • guard – is a command line tool to easily handle events on file system modifications (FSEvent / Inotify / Polling support).
  • OnDir – is a program that automatically executes scripts as you traverse directories at a terminal.
  • PDFMiner – is a tool for extracting information from PDF documents. Unlike other PDF-related tools, it focuses entirely on getting and analyzing text data. PDFMiner allows one to obtain the exact location of text in a page, as well as other information such as fonts or lines. It includes a PDF converter that can transform PDF files into other text formats (such as HTML). It has an extensible PDF parser that can be used for other purposes than text analysis.
  • Trimage – is a cross-platform GUI and command-line interface to optimize image files, depending on the filetype (currently, PNG and JPG files are supported). It was inspired by imageoptim.
  • ImageOptim – optimizes images – so they take up less disk space and load faster – by finding best compression parameters and by removing unnecessary comments and color profiles. It handles PNG, JPEG and GIF animations.
  • Vim Tips – Very nice collection of vim tips
  • eSleeper – is a 21st century cat basket, an ideal resting location for any cat.
  • Attribute Changer – is a power user tool to change all kind of file and folder attributes, date, time and even NTFS compression.

QuickLinks vom 19. November bis zum 8. Dezember

Meine pinboard.in-Links vom 19. November bis zum 8. Dezember:

  • Anki – is a program which makes remembering things easy. Because it is a lot more efficient than traditional study methods, you can either greatly decrease your time spent studying, or greatly increase the amount you learn.
  • Ledger – is a powerful, double-entry accounting system that is accessed from the UNIX command-line. This may put off some users, as there is no flashy UI, but for those who want unparalleled reporting access to their data, there really is no alternative.
  • Glances – is a CLI curses based monitoring tool for both GNU/Linux and BSD.
  • Gow – (Gnu On Windows) is the lightweight alternative to Cygwin. It uses a convenient "Windows installer" that installs about 130 extremely useful open source UNIX applications compiled as native win32 binaries.
  • Breevy – is a TextExpander clone for Windows. Snippets are syncable between Mac and Windows via Dropbox.
  • Vifm – is a ncurses based file manager with vi like keybindings. If you use vi, vifm gives you complete keyboard control over your files without having to learn a new set of commands.
  • blockdiag – and its family generate diagram images from simply text file
  • Archipel – is a solution to manage and supervise virtual machines. You can use all libvirt-supported virtualization engines like KVM, Xen, OpenVZ or VMWare. You can perform all basic virtualization commands and many other things like live migration, VMCasts, packages, etc.
  • stressdrive – is a Mac OS X command-line tool meant to verify correct operation of a drive. It does so by filling a drive up with random data and ensuring all the data can be correctly read back.
  • ThinkUp – is a free, open source web application that captures all your activity on social networks like Twitter, Facebook and Google+.

QuickLinks vom 3. August bis zum 16. August

Meine pinboard.in-Links vom 3. August bis zum 16. August:

  • checksum – is a blisteringly fast, no-nonsense file hashing application for Windows that generates and verifies SHA1 and MD5 hashes
  • Web Developer Extension – adds various web developer tools to a browser. The extension is available for Firefox and Chrome, and will run on any platform that these browsers support including Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.
  • renameutils – are a set of programs designed to make renaming of files faster and less cumbersome.
  • Lion DiskMaker – is a small application programmed with AppleScript that you can use with Mac OS X 10.6 or 10.7 to burn a DVD or build a bootable USB key from Mac OS X Lion’s Installation programm.
  • ipswDownloader – Simple app for downloading firmware for Apple iPhone / iPad / iPod Touch.
  • LiveReload – monitors changes in the file system. As soon as you save a file, it is preprocessed as needed, and the browser is refreshed.
  • LESS.app – extends CSS with variables, nested rules, operators and more. If you're still building websites without it, you're an idiot. This app makes it dead simple to use {Less} by automatically compiling *.less files into standard CSS.
  • Project Hamster – is time tracking for individuals. It helps you to keep track on how much time you have spent during the day on activities you choose to track.
  • ControlPlane – Using a number of configurable evidence sources, rules and actions you can reconfigure your Mac based on what you are doing, where you are at or the time of day.  Set the office printer as your default printer while at work or start a set of apps once you’re home.
  • pow – is a zero-config Rack server for Mac OS X

QuickLinks vom 21. Februar bis zum 6. März

Meine pinboard.in-Links vom 21. Februar bis zum 6. März:

  • git-annex – allows managing files with git, without checking the file contents into git. While that may seem paradoxical, it is useful when dealing with files larger than git can currently easily handle, whether due to limitations in memory, checksumming time, or disk space.
  • Handling my music collection with git-annex – Very cool, would probably not work with iTunes…
  • Pipe Viewer – is a terminal-based tool for monitoring the progress of data through a pipeline. It can be inserted into any normal pipeline between two processes to give a visual indication of how quickly data is passing through, how long it has taken, how near to completion it is, and an estimate of how long it will be until completion.
  • tumblr2wp – Tumblr2WP makes it super simple to transfer your Tumblr content to your own, self-hosted WordPress install.
  • Naked Password – The whole idea of naked password is to encourage your users to enter stronger passwords. Our beautiful model Sally tastefully removes items of clothing as the password grows stronger.
  • beets – is the media library management system for obsessive-compulsive music geeks
  • Searching Active Directory with ldapsearch – If you think there isn't a trick to this, that means you've never tried it – leastways not on an Active Directory container that has more than 1,000 objects in it (or whatever the search limit has been set to in your environment)
  • TCP Performance problems caused be interaction between Nagle's Algorithm and Delayed ACK – The overall summary is that many of the mechanisms that make TCP so great, like fast retransmit, work best when there's a continuous flow of data for the TCP state machine to work on. If you send a block of data and then stop and wait for an application-layer acknowledgment from the other end, the state machine can falter.
  • shop – A tool to show permissions at every level in a path. Shop gives you a quick overview of the permissions of the directory in question, as well as the permissions of every directory above it in the tree.
  • monotone – is a free distributed version control system. It provides a simple, single-file transactional version store, with fully disconnected operation and an efficient peer-to-peer synchronization protocol.

QuickLinks vom 8. Februar bis zum 18. Februar

Meine pinboard.in-Links vom 8. Februar bis zum 18. Februar:

  • Tweet Nest – A browsable, searchable and easily customizable archive and backup for your tweets
  • git mail – Why to store your mail in git
  • ttyload – is a little *NIX utility… to give a color-coded graph of load averages over time.
  • Backup Loupe – is an extension for TimeMachine on OS X
  • SoyWiki – turns Vim into a powerful, lean, and fast wiki. It’s got all the protein of a more conventional wiki, but less saturated fat and no cholesterol.
  • Git Immersion – is a guided tour that walks through the fundamentals of Git, inspired by the premise that to know a thing is to do it.
  • ClipCube – is a tiny clipboard history tool under development for Windows: it sits in the system tray, recording copied text for later use.
  • How to write vim plugins with python – You only need very little knowledge of VimL to be able to write plugins, if you know Python (or Ruby).
  • DiskWave – is a free disk usage utility. It helps you determine where most of your hard drive space is consumed. DiskWave was previously known as WhichSize.
  • SABnzbd – makes Usenet as simple and streamlined as possible by automating everything we can. All you have to do is add an .nzb. SABnzbd takes over from there, where it will be automatically downloaded, verified, repaired, extracted and filed away with zero human interaction.

QuickLinks vom 29. September bis zum 9. Oktober

Meine delicious.com-Links vom 29. September bis zum 9. Oktober:

  • 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…

QuickLinks vom 30. Juni bis zum 9. Juli

Meine delicious.com-Links vom 30. Juni bis zum 9. Juli:

  • Your PasswordCard – is a credit card-sized card you keep in your wallet, which lets you pick very secure passwords for all your websites, without having to remember them! You just keep them with you, and even if your wallet does get stolen, the thief will still not know your actual passwords.
  • sslh – ssl/ssh multiplexer – lets one accept both HTTPS and SSH connections on the same port. It makes it possible to connect to an SSH server on port 443 (e.g. from inside a corporate firewall) while still serving HTTPS on that port.
  • An introduction to git-svn for Subversion/SVK users and deserters – This article is aimed at people who want to contribute to projects which are using Subversion as their code-wiki
  • Meerkat – An easy-to-use SSH tunnel manager built specifically for the Mac. Shareware, $19,95…
  • Add to Google Reader Safari Extension – captures a click on the RSS button and redirects the feed preview page in Google Reader where the user can subscribe immediately.
  • Test: Windows 7 Backup – was es kann und was nicht – So was kann man offenbar nicht auf gewöhnliche Enduser los lassen…
  • Little 'ruby' photo organizer – Place this script in a folder full of pictures, run it, and it will organize the pictures into folders by the day they were taken.
  • Tarsnap – is a secure online backup service for BSD, Linux, OS X, Solaris, Cygwin, and can probably be compiled on many other UNIX-like operating systems. The Tarsnap client code provides a flexible and powerful command-line interface which can be used directly or via shell scripts.
  • Git Extensions – is a toolkit to make working with Git under Windows more intuitive. The shell extension will intergrate in Windows Explorer and presents a nice context menu on files.
  • Fraise – is a free text editor for Mac OS X Leopard 10.6 which is both easy to use and powerful. It is designed to neither confuse newcomers nor disappoint advanced users. It should work perfectly for a whole variety of needs – like web programming, script editing, making a to do list and so on..

QuickLinks vom 12. Mai bis zum 1. Juni

Meine delicious.com-Links vom 12. Mai bis zum 1. Juni:

  • Localghost – makes it easy to switch development host names to resolve to localhost with a status item (i.e. system tray) that adds / removes entries from /etc/hosts.
  • FitNesse – The fully integrated standalone wiki, and acceptance testing framework.
  • cdf – colorized df with friendly capacity bars. Written in pure C without any external dependencies
  • Droopy – is a mini Web server whose sole purpose is to let others upload files to your computer.
  • Tagr – is an application for Mac OS X that helps you organize your MP3 / M4A (MP4) collection.
  • easymac.sh – is a shellscript which generates global, VMware or Xen MAC-addresses
  • MTR – combines the functionality of the 'traceroute' and 'ping' programs in a single network diagnostic tool.
  • calibre – is a free and open source e-book library management application
  • How To Make German Pancakes, Dutch Baby Pancakes – Bring this spectacular breakfast or brunch dish to the table as soon as it comes out of the oven for a lot of oohs and aahs! <br /> A German Pancake is a cross between a soufflé and an omelet – it is a light, airy pancake with sides.
  • Immer im Dienst – Artikel über eine Nagios-Erweiterung zur Überwachung von SLA-Bedingungen. Recht alt und rudimentär…

QuickLinks vom 26. April bis zum 12. Mai

Meine delicious.com-Links vom 26. April bis zum 12. Mai:

  • latex-lab – is an open source implementation of a web based LaTeX editor for Google Docs.
  • adsf – A Dead Simple Fileserver is a tiny web server that you can launch instantly in any directory.
  • NConf – NConf is a PHP based web-tool for configuring the Nagios monitoring software. It differs from similar tools by offering enterprise-class features like templates, dependencies and the ability to configure a large-scale, distributed Nagios server topology.
  • 3-2-1 – is a countdown timer for Dashboard (OS X). It displays hours, minutes, and seconds, includes a lap function and is resizable
  • 60 Minimal Apple Desktop Wallpapers
  • Driver Easy – Auto-Detect & Download your Hardware Drivers, Quickly & Easily.
  • Analyzing I/O performance in Linux
  • ifconfig.me – Get your current external IP via curl ifconfig.me
  • The Ultimate WordPress Security Guide
  • Gas Mask – is simple hosts file manager for Mac OS X Leopard. It enables to edit hosts files and switch between them.