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 24. Oktober bis zum 19. November

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.

QuickLinks vom 17. September bis zum 5. Oktober

Meine pinboard.in-Links vom 17. September bis zum 5. Oktober:

  • threesome – is a Vim plugin for resolving conflicts during three-way merges. It's designed to be used as a merge tool for version control systems like Mercurial and Git.
  • efa – is a commandline client for the http://efa.vrr.de web interface. It can request itineraries for train/tram/bus connections throughout Germany, based on various parameters such as date/time, preferred train types and such. It is most useful inside the VRR, but works fine for the rest of Germany as well.
  • Format Factory – is a multifunctional media converter for Windows.
  • qlmarkdown – is a simple QuickLook generator for Markdown files.
  • LastHistory – allows you to analyze music listening histories from Last.fm through an interactive visualization and to explore your own past by combining the music you listened to with your own photos and calendar entries.
  • How to clean Apple products
  • Bookmarklets for text manipulation – Quickly create markdown links to current page with selected text.
  • Mass Deploying Time Machine in Mac OS X Lion – The tmutil command allows administrators to enable Time Machine, make snapshots, kick off backups, delete snapshots, perform restores, configure options within Time Machine and, with a little scripting, build a centralized dashboard, pulling in Time Machine statistics from clients.
  • boom – motherfucking text snippets on the command line.
  • HOWTO Use UTF-8 Throughout Your Web Stack – You write web apps. You understand the web is global, and want to support internationalization. You want UTF-8.

QuickLinks vom 19. August bis zum 29. August

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 9. Juli bis zum 15. Juli

Meine pinboard.in-Links vom 9. Juli bis zum 15. Juli:

  • Marked – opens MultiMarkdown, Markdown, Text or HTML files and previews them as HTML documents. It watches the file for changes, updating the preview any time the file is saved.
  • Stupid htaccess Tricks – this article covers just about every htaccess trick in the book.
  • URL Rewriting for Beginners – A beginner's guide to URL rewriting, with plenty of examples.
  • IP Scanner – scans your local area network to determine the identity of all machines and internet devices on the LAN.
  • vitunes – lets you control and navigate iTunes from the comfort of Vim.
  • DotShare.it – is the attempted solution to all of the sporadic "Post your X configs!" threads on various distro's forums.
  • Cool, but obscure unix tools – Just a list of 20 (now 28) tools for the command line. Some are little-known, some are just too useful to miss, some are pure obscure
  • Surfraw – provides a fast unix command line interface to a variety of popular WWW search engines and other artifacts of power.
  • Observium – is an autodiscovering PHP/MySQL/SNMP based network monitoring which includes support for a wide range of network hardware and operating systems including Cisco, Linux, FreeBSD, Juniper, Foundry, HP and many more.
  • HTML-Ipsum – A handy collection of dummy HTML markup, pre-greeked for your convenience.

QuickLinks vom 8. April bis zum 30. April

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

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 23. März bis zum 6. April

Meine delicious.com-Links vom 23. März bis zum 6. April:

  • bup – Highly efficient file backup system based on the git packfile format. Capable of doing incremental backups of virtual machine images.
  • diskring – is a Mac OS X utility that displays the disk usage through a handy ring chart effect
  • Hg Init – a Mercurial tutorial by Joel Spolsky including Subversion Re-education
  • PeaZip – Open source file and archive manager for Windows and Linux. Flexibe, portable, secure, and free as in freedom
  • Getting started with retirement on a sailboat – Maybe some day…
  • Snippets – Code Snippet Manager for Mac OS X, $39,95
  • Common MySQL Queries – *Lots* of useful MySQL Queries…
  • reMail – downloads all your email to your iPhone and searches it instantly.

QuickLinks vom 4. März bis zum 23. März

Meine delicious.com-Links vom 4. März bis zum 23. März:

  • collectd – is a daemon which collects system performance statistics periodically and provides mechanisms to store the values in a variety of ways, for example in RRD files.
  • CSVed – is an easy and powerful CSV file editor, you can manipulate any CSV file, separated with any separator.
  • Simple Desktops – is a collection of desktop wallpapers curated by Tom Watson designed to make your computer beautiful without distraction.
  • Continuous Integration – is a software development practice where members of a team integrate their work frequently, usually each person integrates at least daily – leading to multiple integrations per day. Each integration is verified by an automated build (including test) to detect integration errors as quickly as possible. Many teams find that this approach leads to significantly reduced integration problems and allows a team to develop cohesive software more rapidly. This article is a quick overview of Continuous Integration summarizing the technique and its current usage.
  • Ultimate solution to weird UTF character encoding problem – Due to different formats of storing characters in the database, sometimes you may encounter problem with strange characters (like —) appearing in your WordPress posts. This can especially happen when moving the site to a different server, a process during which your database needs to be exported and imported.
  • Why Your Employees Are Losing Motivation – Business literature is packed with advice about worker motivation—but sometimes managers are the problem, not the inspiration. Here are seven practices to fire up the troops. From Harvard Management Update.
  • smitten kitchen Recipe Index – Fearless cooking from a tiny kitchen in New York City with delicious photos…
  • Uniform – masks your standard form controls with custom themed controls. It works in sync with your real form elements to ensure accessibility and compatibility.
  • vi Complete Key Binding List – This is not intended as a tutorial. It is a reference on what every vi key binding does, followed by some useful vi tricks and tips. An expert will probably know most of these already, but an intermediate vi user will find valuable information, and even an expert may learn a thing or two.
  • Ephemera – will comfortably synchronize your ebook reader with Instapaper.com via USB. It works with the Amazon Kindle, Sony readers and pretty much any device capable of reading HTML, Mobipocket or EPUB files.

QuickLinks vom 25. Februar bis zum 4. März

Meine delicious.com-Links vom 25. Februar bis zum 4. März:

  • kSar – kSar Version 5 is a java application that graph your sar data. It can graph sar text output from Solaris,Linux,AIX,HPUX,Mac OS/X. It also permit to export data to PDF/JPG/PNG/CSV. You can load dat from three method : local file, local command excetion, and remote command execution via SSH
  • MySQL Workbench – is a cross-platform, visual database design tool developed by MySQL. It is the highly anticipated successor application of the DBDesigner4 project. MySQL Workbench will be available as a native GUI tool on Window, Linux and OS X.
  • QuickCursor – For Mac users to use their favorite text editor everywhere. QuickCursor allows you to edit text from any application in your favorite text editor.
  • The Ten Minute Guide to diff and patch
  • MyLogon – is a Network-oriented logon applet for Windows