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QuickLinks vom 19. November bis zum 8. Dezember

der Dennis — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 09:31:56 +0000

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 7. April bis zum 21. April

der Dennis — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 12:15:44 +0000

Meine delicious.com-Links vom 7. April bis zum 21. April:

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…

QuickLinks vom 5. März

der Dennis — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 00:31:50 +0000

Meine del.icio.us-Links vom 5. März:

The Apple Product Cycle – Very detailed and funny description of the life of an typical apple product. Must Read for every fanboy out there…
rechnung.sty – ist der Versuch das Erstellen von Bestellungen und Rechnungen mit LaTeX 2e zu erleichtern
ScreenSteps – Creation of Manuals and Instructions made easy. Shareware, starting at 39,95$
AdultSheepFinder – New Zealands Nuber 1 Dating Site!
MultiClutch – free Cocoa app that lets you customize the behavior of of multitouch gestures on your Macbook Air or (new model) Macbook Pro.
Minutes – Tasty Timer widget
50 Best WordPress Plugins for Power Blogging – to look into…
Racer – is a free cross-platform car simulation project
The Ultimate List of RubyCocoa Tutorials, Tips and Tools –
ProVoc – is a free and easy-to-use vocabulary trainer that will help you quickly learn and efficiently train your vocabulary.
LeopardDocks.net – Custom Leopard Docks
Dock Library – is an application that takes the headache out of managing styles for your Leopard dock.

QuickLinks vom 25. Januar bis zum 28. Januar

der Dennis — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 00:30:24 +0000

Meine del.icio.us-Links vom 25. Januar bis zum 28. Januar:

Anki – is a program designed to help you remember facts (such as words and phrases in a foreign language) as easily, quickly and efficiently as possible. To do this, it tracks how well you remember each fact, and uses that information to optimally schedule revie
EyeSight – captures pictures periodically from 10 seconds to 999 days. Use it as webcam, watch rooms or whatever you like to do…
globalSAN iSCSI Initiator for OS X –
Theme Test Drive – allows you to safely test drive any theme on your blog as administrator, while visitors still use the default one.
Porticus – is a Cocoa GUI for the MacPorts package manager.
tooble – Browse, Search, and Download YouTube Video directly to your iPod
par, the Paragraph Formatter – is an extremely well-written and intelligent paragraph formatter that almost no one knows about. It makes it easy to write enviably well-formatted plain text e-mails and is also helpful with source code.
Interface design and the iPhone – Edward Tufte on the iPhone Interface Design
items to build an apple store – If you want to re-model your home in the style of an Apple store, here are links to the suppliers of the actual items they use.
Why ZFS Matters to Mac Users –
Mac OS X Leopard native Wireshark without X11 – Native Builds for Intel and PPC with included GTK+. Yay!