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QuickLinks vom 9. Dezember bis zum 24. Dezember

der Dennis — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 10:51:10 +0000

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. August bis zum 29. August

der Dennis — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 09:04:43 +0000

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.

QuickLinks vom 23. Juli bis zum 2. August

der Dennis — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 18:34:29 +0000

Meine pinboard.in-Links vom 23. Juli bis zum 2. August:

ScreenSharingMenulet – connect to local and Back to My Mac hosts via Screen Sharing from the menu bar
Using the Rake Build Language –
Message Header Analysis Tool – Extract a message header from a mail you want to investigate. Copy/Paste into the box above and click on "ANALYSE"
TotalTerminal – provides a persistent Visor Window which slides down when you press a hot-key. Remember Quake Console?
pexpect – is a pure Python module that makes Python a better tool for controlling and automating other programs.
vimwiki – is a personal wiki for Vim. A number of linked text files that have their own syntax highlighting.
spiped – is a utility for creating symmetrically encrypted and authenticated pipes between socket addresses. This is similar to 'ssh -L' functionality, but does not use SSH and requires a pre-shared symmetric key.
A simple Ruby command-line application skeleton –
Download Time Calculator – calculates the time needed for downloading a file with a specified connection speed and file size
SafariOmnibar – is a Safari SIMBL plugin aiming at mimicing the Chrome's smart location bar which combines location and search.

QuickLinks vom 25. Mai bis zum 6. Juni

der Dennis — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 09:49:06 +0000

Meine pinboard.in-Links vom 25. Mai bis zum 6. Juni:

Squeaky – is a web proxy, in the spirit of a2 or PHProxy
Archive – This free plugin extends Apple Mail with the archive feature that you know and love from MobileMe and Gmail.
lesspipe – is an input filter for the pager less as described in its man page. The script runs under a ksh compliant shell (ksh, bash, zsh) and allows to view files with binary content, compressed files, archives and files contained in archives.
YOURLS – is a small set of PHP scripts that will allow you to run your own URL shortening service (a la TinyURL). You can make it private or public, you can pick custom keyword URLs, it comes with its own API. You will love it.
MFCMAPI – uses Microsoft's published APIs to provide access to MAPI stores through a graphical user interface. Its purpose is to facilitate investigation of Exchange and Outlook issues and to provide developers with a canonical sample for MAPI development.
Markdoc – is a lightweight Markdown-based wiki system. It's been designed to allow you to create and manage wikis as quickly and easily as possible.
SL – (Steam Locomotive) runs across your terminal when you type "sl" as you meant to type "ls". It's just a joke command, and not usefull at all.
mairix – is a program for indexing and searching email messages stored in maildir, MH or mbox folders.
Guake – is a top-down terminal for Gnome (in the style of Yakuake for KDE, Tilda or the terminal used in Quake).
Infinite Scroll – Automatically append the next page of posts (via AJAX) to your page when a user scrolls to the bottom.

QuickLinks vom 8. April bis zum 30. April

der Dennis — Wed, 04 May 2011 19:51:01 +0000

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.

QuickLinks vom 8. Februar bis zum 18. Februar

der Dennis — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 13:28:00 +0000

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 15. Januar bis zum 3. Februar

der Dennis — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 08:13:53 +0000

Meine pinboard.in-Links vom 15. Januar bis zum 3. Februar:

janus – This is a basic distribution of vim plugins and tools intended to be run on top of the latest MacVIM snapshot.
reptyr – is a utility for taking an existing running program and attaching it to a new terminal. Started a long-running process over ssh, but have to leave and don't want to interrupt it? Just start a screen, use reptyr to grab it, and then kill the ssh session and head on home.
txt2re – headache relief for programmers :: regular expression generator
atMonitor – is the most advanced monitoring tool for Mac OS X that displays system activity in real-time
urlscan – is a small program that is designed to integrate with the "mutt" mailreader to allow you to easily launch a Web browser for URLs contained in email messages.
Screens – Very good looking universal VNC Client for iPad, iPhone and iPod touch.
Coloration – is editor/IDE color scheme converter. Right now it allows you to convert your favourite Textmate color scheme (in XML plist format) to Vim, JEdit and KDevelop/Kate/Kwrite color scheme.
nvALT – Notational Velocity fork with widescreen, collapsible notes panel, MultiMarkdown/Markdown/Textile rendering and preview
rush – is a replacement for the unix shell (bash, zsh, etc) which uses pure Ruby syntax
Wiki on a Stick – (in short WoaS) is a wiki that lives in one self-modifying XHTML file. It's perfect to be used at home or at office, on your laptop or USB pen drive.

QuickLinks vom 5. Januar bis zum 15. Januar

der Dennis — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 19:25:29 +0000

Meine pinboard.in-Links vom 5. Januar bis zum 15. Januar:

RFC 1855: Netiquette Guidelines – This document provides a minimum set of guidelines for Network Etiquette (Netiquette) which organizations may take and adapt for their own use.
Celerity – is a JRuby wrapper around HtmlUnit – a headless Java browser with JavaScript support. It provides a simple API for programmatic navigation through web applications.
cucumber-nagios – lets you describe how a system should work in natural language, and outputs whether it does in the Nagios plugin format
Traverso – Is an audio recording and editing program which is very well suited to record a single voice, a band, an ensemble, a whole orchestra or any other source of music
VimGolf – Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke – do you?
Ad Hoc Data Analysis From The Unix Command Line – Your friends: cat, find, grep, wc, cut, sort, uniq
Free e-books for Windows administrators – This is a list of free e-books that are useful for Windows administrators. It will be regularly updated.
Review Board – is a powerful web-based code review tool that offers developers an easy way to handle code reviews. It scales well from small projects to large companies and offers a variety of tools to take much of the stress and time out of the code review process.
Shelf – is an app for MacOS that looks at the current foreground application, and tries to figure out if what you’re looking at corresponds to a person in your Address Book. Then it’ll tell you things about them.
NanoCount – is a little utility for MacOS X. It provides a word count feature for TextEdit, OS X's built-in word processor.

QuickLinks vom 23. Dezember bis zum 1. Januar

der Dennis — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 21:54:04 +0000

Meine pinboard.in-Links vom 23. Dezember bis zum 1. Januar:

Guide to using Screen and Irssi –
logstalgia – is a website traffic visualization that replays or streams Apache web-server access logs as a pong-like battle between the web server and an never ending torrent of requests.
gource – is a software version control visualization tool.
The git pickaxe: finding changes was never easier – Wouldn't it be great if you could find all the changes to a line in your entire history? Sort of like git blame, but only for revisions that match some string.This is where git's pickaxe functionality comes in.
ClipX – is a tiny clipboard history manager for windows. It is sweet, it is free, use it.
Git sync via USB –
Vmail – is a Vim interface to Gmail
pit – is a command-line project manager that integrates with Git
Cram – is a functional testing framework for command line applications based on Mercurial's unified test format.

QuickLinks vom 29. Oktober bis zum 18. November

der Dennis — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 14:34:16 +0000

Meine delicious.com-Links vom 29. Oktober bis zum 14. November:

How to Setup Gmail Over IMAP to Play Nice Within Mac OS X Mail –
AirTunes v2 UDP streaming protocol – The information contained in this document was obtained by reverse-engineering the protocol from network dumps obtained on a Mac OS X host running iTunes.
LaTeX Coffee Stains – This package provides an essential feature to LaTeX that has been missing for too long. It adds a coffee stain to your documents. A lot of time can be saved by printing stains directly on the page rather than adding it manually.
Going Flash-Free on Mac OS X, and How to Cheat When You Need It – Chairman Gruber with some good points…
VIM-LaTeX – Vim is undoubtedly one of the best editors ever made. LaTeX is an extremely powerful, intelligent typesetter. Vim-LaTeX aims at bringing together the best of both these worlds.
Tower – Great looking and powerful Git client for Mac OS X
Chocomoko – is a Last.fm client and player application for MacOS X Snow Leopard
The Guide – is an application that allows you create documents which inherently have a tree and text associated with each node of the tree.
Org-Mode – is for keeping notes, maintaining ToDo lists, doing project planning, and authoring with a fast and effective plain-text system.