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.

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+.

Meine pinboard.in-Links vom 24. Oktober bis zum 19. November:

• spark – A little shell script that lets you generate sparklines at the command line.
• glogg – is a multi-platform GUI application to browse and search through long or complex log files. It is designed with programmers and system administrators in mind. glogg can be seen as a graphical, interactive combination of grep and less.
• ResophNotes – Notational Velocity clone for Windows including Simplenote-sync and Markdown support
• Pandoc – is your swiss-army knife if you need to convert files from one markup format into another. Need to generate a man page from a markdown file? No problem. LaTeX to Docbook? Sure. HTML to MediaWiki? Yes, that too.
• GitLab – is your own lite app for projects/repositories hosting on your server. Basically it is a free GithHub Clone written in Ruby on Rails.
• Coordino – allows you to create a question and answer system for you and your users to enjoy. Basically it is a free StackOverflow Clone written in PHP.
• KeyStroke – is a Safari extension that provides customizable keyboard shorcuts for common tasks and enhancements.
• Samurize – is an advanced system monitoring and desktop enhancement engine for Windows. IT professionals, overclockers, gamers and desktop modders alike use Samurize for system information, weather reports, news headlines and much much more.
• dexy – is an open source document automation tool that can help you create documents using your favourite programming languages and your favourite software.
• MarkdownPad – is a full-featured Markdown editor for Windows.

Meine pinboard.in-Links vom 19. August bis zum 29. August:

• obnam – is an easy, secure backup program. Backups can be stored on local hard disks, or online via the SSH SFTP protocol. The backup server, if used, does not require any special software, on top of SSH.
• Greenshot – is a light-weight screenshot software tool for Windows
• OfflineIMAP – operates on a REMOTE and a LOCAL repository and synchronizes emails between them, so that you can read the same mailbox from multiple computers. The REMOTE repository is some IMAP server, while LOCAL can be either a local Maildir or another IMAP server.
• TeXnicle – is a LaTeX editor and project organiser for Mac OS X with a feature-rich interface to help you manage your LaTeX projects.
• GAget – Google Analytics Widget for Mac OS X Dashboard
• Bootstrap – is a toolkit from Twitter designed to kickstart development of webapps and sites.
• cinderella – is a fully managed development environment for open source hacking on Mac OSX. It's powered by homebrew and chef. You only need Xcode to get started.
• awesome – awesome is a highly configurable, next generation framework window manager for X. It is primarly targeted at power users, developers and any people dealing with every day computing tasks and who want to have fine-grained control on theirs graphical environment.

Meine pinboard.in-Links vom 8. April bis zum 30. April:

• flickrtouchr – A Python script to grab all your photos from Flickr and dump them into a directory, organized into folders by set name.
• Scrup – Take a screenshot in OS X and have a URL to the picture in your pasteboard a second later.
• SuprSetr – Advanced, cross-platform set management for your Flickr photosets.
• MediathekView – durchsucht die Online-Mediatheken verschiedener Sender lädt Beiträge mit einem Programm eigener Wahl und kann Themen als Abos anlegen und neue Beiträge automatisch herunterladen
• LSCOLORS Generator – Color generator for ls with preview
• DVCS-Autosync – A personal Dropbox replacement based on Git
• PasTmon – is a passive network traffic analyser that can measure user transaction response times of web, ftp, dns, irc, pop, mail, postgresql, and mysql database servers. You can even define your own signature rules to monitor custom TCP based applications.
• Enso Launcher – is designed to give you instant access to your applications and windows. With a few easily remembered keystrokes, you can launch an application, switch to a window by name, and control the state of your windows.
• Cntlm – is an NTLM / NTLM Session Response / NTLMv2 authenticating HTTP proxy intended to help you break free from the chains of Microsoft proprietary world.

Meine pinboard.in-Links vom 21. März bis zum 3. April:

• Boxer – plays all the MS-DOS games of your misspent youth, right here on your Mac.
• Vim Recipes – is a free cookbook for Vim, the popular text editor. It does not replace Vim's excellent built-in documentation, but complements it by focussing on tasks rather than commands.
• WinSplit Revolution – is a small utility which allows you to easily organize your open windows by tiling, resizing and positioning them to make the best use of your desktop real estate
• flashbake – A seamless source control solution combines the convenience of automated back up with the power of source version control.
• ScraperWiki – is a platform for writing and scheduling screen scrapers, and for storing the data they generate
• The Motherfucking Manifesto For Programming, Motherfuckers – We are tired of XP, Scrum, Kanban, Waterfall, Software Craftsmanship (aka XP-Lite) and anything else getting in the way of…Programming, Motherfucker.
• How to use iWeb to build a killer frontpage for your Facebook Fan Page. –
• PHP-RegExp-Tutorial – Ausführliche, deutschsprachige Informationen zum Aufbau und zur Verwendung von Regulären Ausdrücken in PHP.
• CLCL – Is a clipboard caching utility for Windows. Works with text and files.
• git-friendly – is a collection of shell scripts for automating basic git workflows that you probably find yourself typing over and over again.

Meine pinboard.in-Links vom 9. März bis zum 20. März:

• Colored word-based diff – A wrapper that does what I want most of the time, and colorizes the output is cwdiff. Version control systems can easily be coerced into using this wrapper instead of diff.
• Meslo-Font – Customized version of Apple's Menlo font. Great monospaced font for development work. Should also work with the Windows Console
• The Ultimate Wget Download Guide With 15 Awesome Examples –
• Threshold – A universal quick entry field for OS X
• Sidestep – is an open-source application for Mac OS X that sits quietly in the background, protecting your security and privacy as you browse the web.
• blueMarine – An open source application for the digital photo workflow, the blueMarine project will provide you an all-in-one tool for managing your photos, from the shoot up to the archiving and beyond. blueMarine is an expandable, open platform and includes specific support for different photographers communities, as well as the latest technologies.
• Insufficiently known POSIX shell features – all the tricks below work in every POSIX shell I know of. None of them are bashisms.
• lipsync – is an open source, lightweight service that provides command-line, Dropbox – like syncing in Linux using OpenSSH, rsync, unison and lsyncd.
• gfxCardStatus – is a menu bar application that keeps track of which graphics card your unibody, dual-GPU MacBook Pro is using at any given time, and allows you to switch between them on demand.
• Darik's Boot And Nuke – ("DBAN") is a self-contained boot disk that securely wipes the hard disks of most computers. DBAN will automatically and completely delete the contents of any hard disk that it can detect, which makes it an appropriate utility for bulk or emergency data destruction.

Mit Ubuntu unter VMWare Fusion ist es schon nicht ganz so einfach. Erst zicken die VMWareTools und man muss sie patchen, dann will man anfangen zu arbeiten aber die eckigen und geschweiften Klammern, das At-Zeichen und andere Sonderzeichen arbeiten nicht wie man es von der Mac OS X Tastaturbelegung gewohnt ist.

Um dem Problem abzuhelfen geht man wie folgt vor:

• Die virtuelle Maschine herunterfahren.
• In den Einstellungen von VMWare Fusion in die Tastatur und Maus Sektion wechseln (VMWare Fusion -> Einstellungen -> Tastatur und Maus) und dort aus dem Profil-Menü “Profile bearbeiten” auswählen.
• In dem erscheinenden Fenster der Ubuntu-Maschine das Mac-Profil zuweisen. So gehen die Tasten vom Mac ohne Remapping zur VM.

• Jetzt kann Ubuntu wieder gestartet werden.
• Nach dem Boot wechselt man zu den GNOME-Tastatureinstellungen (System -> Einstellungen -> Tastatur), und stellt dort unter dem Reiter “Belegung” das passende Mac-Keyboard ein.¹

Einen weiteren Neustart später sollte alles so funktionieren wie man es gewöhnt ist. Alt-E für das Euro Zeichen, Alt-L für das At, Alt-5 und 6 für die eckigen Klammern und so weiter.

Ich hatte hier noch das Problem, dass all das nur mit der rechten Alt-Taste funktionierte. In meinem Muskel-Gedächnis ist aber die linke Alt-Taste vorgesehen.

Um die Tasten zu vertauschen legt man in seinem Ubuntu-Home-Verzeichnis eine .xmodmap-Datei mit folgendem Inhalt ab:

clear mod1 clear mod5 keycode 113 = Alt_L keycode 64 = ISO_Level3_Shift add mod1 = Alt_L add mod5 = ISO_Level3_Shift

Nach einem weiteren Reboot fragt Ubuntu dann noch einmal nach, ob es diese Datei wirklich laden soll. Ab da sollte alles klappen.

(via: Ubuntuusers Forum)

1. Hier bei mir war das “MacBook/MacBook Pro intl”, für Desktop-Macs könnte da was anderes hin müssen, YMMV [↩]

Meine delicious.com-Links vom 9. Dezember bis zum 12. Dezember:

• ack – better than grep, a power search tool for programmers
• Snake Wrangling for Kids – is a printable electronic book, for children 8 years and older, who would like to learn computer programming. It covers the very basics of programming, and uses the Python 3 programming language to teach the concepts.
• Write Your Name in Elvish in Ten Minutes –
• Lab Tick – Complete control over backlit Keyboards
• gittorrent – The GitTorrent Protocol (GTP) is a protocol for collaborative git repository distribution across the Internet.

Meine delicious.com-Links vom 19. Oktober bis zum 25. Oktober:

• Poladroid – Creating Polaroid-Pics on Mac OS X in realtime…
• Drawing the Millennium Falcon –
• KeyRemap4MacBook – Handy program to remap the keyboard-bindings… Enter to Alt FTW!
• Use capistrano in enterprise for PHP and Ruby on Rails applications –
• Free Websites Performance, Availability, Traffic Monitoring –
• The Thirteen Greatest Error Messages of All Time –
• And now Chicken of the VNC tunneled through SSH on OS X – A nice little script to automagically tunnel vnc through ssh. Oh I like those…
• Wutkerlchen und Jonglierbälle basteln –
• OpenOffice.org Power Tools – Nice addons for OpenOffice.org…
• Nuevasync: Over the Air Syncing of Calendar and Contacts for your iPhone or iPod Touch –
• FlexCal – is a simple way to get your to-dos or events into your calendar quickly.