• 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.

• tmux – is a terminal multiplexer: it enables a number of terminals (or windows), each running a separate program, to be created, accessed, and controlled from a single screen. tmux may be detached from a screen and continue running in the background, then later reattached.
• Newsbeuter – is an open-source RSS/Atom feed reader for text terminals. It runs on Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X and other Unix-like operating systems. Newsbeuter's great configurability and vast number of features make it a perfect choice for people that need a slick and fast feed reader that can be completely controlled via keyboard.
• Homebrew – is the easiest and most flexible way to install the UNIX tools Apple didn't include with OS X.
• Fairmount – is a free tool which allows on-the-fly decryption of DVD content for convenient access. Fairmount does not perform the actual decryption, it simply forwards the data to VLC Media Player, which is used for the decryption.
• skreenics – is a Mac OS X application that is designed to easily create thumbnails from your videos. You simply drag 'n drop files and folders onto the main screen, and Skreenics will generate the thumbnails the way you asked it!
• libimobiledevice – is a software library that talks the protocols to support iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad devices on Linux. Unlike other projects, it does not depend on using any existing proprietary libraries and does not require jailbreaking.
• Flying the SR-71 Blackbird –
• Fake Name Generator – Generiert Namen und Adressen aus verschiedenen Teilen der Erde. Sehr praktisch, falls mal eine gültige Postleitzahl oder sonst etwas gebraucht wird…
• pwnat – pronounced "poe-nat", is a tool that allows any number of clients behind NATs to communicate with a server behind a separate NAT with *no* port forwarding and *no* DMZ setup on any routers in order to directly communicate with each other.
• Ebbinghaus – Digital index cards shareware with LaTeX support for $20. Seems to be quite nice to learn vocabulary, formulas and other things…

• Rocketbox – is a powerful, new way of searching your e-mail in Apple Mail.app. $14,95.
• Springer LaTeX Search Beta – lets you search through over 1,096,133 LaTeX code snippets to find the equation you need.
• _why's Estate – Everything _why has published on the internet should be accessible from here. It works sort of like a museum that sells maps. Many of his abandoned writings are mirrored locally here, and everything else is through external links.
• Autodesk Project Dragonfly – Free Home Design Software – Think the Sims without any Sims…
• Ninite Easy PC Setup – installs software fast with default settings and says "no" to browser toolbars and other junk. runs on Windows XP/Vista/7 and works in the background unattended and 100% hands-free.

• 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.

• Lead2Amazon – Getting clean BibTeX output from Amazon pages
• Advancing in the Bash Shell – A metric ton of usefull shortcuts and hints for the Bash Shell
• Web-based tools to monitor your servers – Nice collection…
• vim-fugitive – a Git wrapper so awesome, it should be illegal

• Openfiler — Openfiler – Open Source Storage Management Appliance – is a network storage operating system, fronted by a web based management user interface. With the features we built into Openfiler, you can take advantage of file-based Network Attached Storage and block-based Storage Area Networking functionality in a single cohesive framework.
• RAOP Client – is an Airport Express client written in ruby. It allows you to stream music to an Airport Express from Ruby.
• Detexify – LaTeX handwritten symbol recognition
• HDRtist – Free and easy to use HDR-Software for Mac OS X
• lsyncd – uses rsync to synchronize local directories with a remote machine running rsyncd. Lsyncd watches multiple directories trees through inotify. The first step after adding the watches is to rsync all directories with the remote host, and then sync single file by collecting the inotify events. So lsyncd is a light-weight live mirror solution that should be easy to install and use while blending well with your system.
• sink – is a tool that allows you to compare multiple directories, take snapshots of their state, and compare the states. It also provides commands to create logical links between files to do micro changes management.
• Oktoberfest Etiquette – Surviving the Oktoberfest from an US-perspective… Might come in handy…
• Frizzix – ist ein kostenloser FritzBox Anrufmonitor und Anrufmanager für Mac OS X. Frizzix zeigt ein- und ausgehende Anrufe, die über eine Fritz!Box geführt werden, sowie die integrierte Anrufliste der FritzBox bequem auf dem Mac an.
• Google Book Downloader – is small utility which allows you to save books as PDF from google to your local filesystem.

• Anonymous Pro – is a family of four fixed-width fonts designed especially with coding in mind. Characters that could be mistaken for one another (O, 0, I, l, 1, etc.) have distinct shapes to make them easier to tell apart in the context of source code.
• HTTP Client – A Mac OS X Leopard developer tool for debugging HTTP services by graphically creating & inspecting complex HTTP messages.
• nullmailer – is a minimal MTA that provides mail delivery services to programs in a host that otherwise does not require a full MTA like Exim or Postfix.
• Fever – Very stylish feedreader to be hosted on own server. $30,00
• Mobile Wiki Server – This mobile Wiki server is a fully functional Wiki hosted on your iPhone, or iPod touch
• wordpress-geo-mashup – Make WordPress into a GeoCMS. Include Google maps in posts and pages, and map posts and pages on global maps.
• Abkürzungsverzeichnis und Glossar zusammen mit LaTeX –
• Extensive WordPress 2.8 Getting Started Guide – Essential reading.
• The Ultimate Top 25 Chuck Norris “The Programmer” Jokes –
• moblin.org – Netbook centric Linux distri by Intel…

Mit BibDesk¹, diesem genialen Stück Software zur Literaturverwaltung im BibTeX-Format auf dem Mac, kann man sich in vielen Fällen das manuelle Eintragen von Titeln sparen.

Man trage dazu den Gemeinsamen Verbundkataloges (GVK) des Gesamtverzeichnisses der norddeutschen Bibliotheken wie folgt unter “Searches – New Search Group” in BibDesk ein:

Darauf achten, das Z39.50 als Protokoll gewählt wird, das verdeckte Passwort lautet “abc”.

Sinnigerweise kann man dann auch direkt ein Bookmark setzen um die Suche später schnell wieder zu finden.

So macht es schon fast richtig Spaß, das Literaturverzeichnis zu pflegen und Recherche zu weiteren Titeln zu betreiben.

(via: ats20.de)

1. Eine sehr schöne Einführung zu dieser Software findet sich bei den schweizer UniMac Services

• PixelStick – is a tool for measuring distances and angles on the screen.
• Backblaze – Unlimited encrypted online-backup for Mac OS X and Windows. 5 $ per Computer, can use your own private key. Interesting…
• ExifTool – is a platform-independent Perl library plus a command-line application for reading, writing and editing meta information in image, audio and video files.
• 10 Steps To Protect The Admin Area In WordPress – Good tips, easy to apply…
• LaTeX auf dem Mac – Digitales Grundrauschen #12 – 2 Stunden Podcast über LaTeX, Seite mit tollen Links zum Thema…

• qlcolorcode – A Quick Look plugin for source code with syntax highlighting
• Checkfilenames – a little perl script to find file names that are longer than a certain number of characters. Very handy…
• Wissenswerkstatt | Ist die Wikipedia zitierfähig? » Der Umgang mit wissenschaftlichen Quellen –
• corkscrew – Corkscrew is a tool for tunneling SSH through HTTP proxies.
• WinMerge – is an Open Source (GPL) visual text file differencing and merging tool for Windows. It is highly useful for determining what has changed between project versions, and then merging changes between versions.
• Small Basic – is a project that's aimed at bringing "fun" back to programming. By providing a small and easy to learn programming language in a friendly and inviting development environment, Small Basic makes programming a breeze. Ideal for kids and adults alike, Small Basic helps beginners take the first step into the wonderful world of programming.
• Helvetica and Alternatives to Helvetica –
• SQLite Tutorial – This article explores the power and simplicity of sqlite3, starting with common commands and triggers.
• JuicePhone – is a Mac application that extracts your iTunes iPhone/iPod touch backups and puts the extracted backup into a chosen folder, which represents the device’s home folder.
• Google SketchUp – Mit Google SketchUp können Sie 3D-Modelle erstellen, ändern und mit anderen gemeinsam verwenden. Und das Programm ist einfacher zu erlernen, als andere 3D Modellierprogramme
• Communote – Hosted Twitter-Clone, targeted at professional users… Maybe worth a look…
• Introducing Prologue – Turning WordPress into some kind of internal Twitter with comments. Interesting…
• MacRuby – is a version of Ruby 1.9, ported to run directly on top of Mac OS X core technologies such as the Objective-C common runtime and garbage collector, and the CoreFoundation framework.
• macam – is a driver for USB webcams on Mac OS X. It allows hundreds of USB webcams to be used by many Mac OS X video-aware applications.
• How to make a presentation with Latex – Using the Beamer package for presentations
• seam-carving-gui – A GUI for Content Aware Image Resizing (Retargeting, Seam Carving). Binaries available for OS X and Windows.
• Kuchen 2.0 oder "5 Minuten Schoko-Kuchen" –
• ISS Now – Utterly amazing live tracking of the ISS in orbit…