QuickLinks vom 28. Dezember bis zum 15. Januar

Meine pinboard.in-Links vom 28. Dezember bis zum 15. Januar:

  • Bip – is an IRC proxy, which means it keeps connected to your preferred IRC servers, can store the logs for you, and even send them back to your IRC client(s) upon connection.
  • KNC – is Kerberised NetCat. It works in basically the same way as either netcat or stunnel except that it is Kerberised. You can use it to construct client/server applications while keeping the Kerberos libraries out of your programs address space quickly and easily.
  • glark – A replacement for (or supplement to) the grep family, glark offers: Perl compatible regular expressions, highlighting of matches, context around matches, complex expressions, and automatic exclusion of non-text files.
  • runiq – functions in a manner quite similar to GNU uniq, but runiq allows you to specify keys based on regular expressions in stead of field or the first N characters.
  • TrID – is an utility designed to identify file types from their binary signatures. While there are similar utilities with hard coded logic, TrID has no fixed rules. Instead, it's extensible and can be trained to recognize new formats in a fast and automatic way.
  • DropIt – A tiny, flexible, hard-working tool to automate sorting and filing data-files and folders.
  • droopy – is a mini Web server whose sole purpose is to let others upload files to your computer.
  • Markdown QuickTags – is a plugin for WordPress which replaces the HTML editor with a Markdown-enabled set of buttons and features.
  • DIY Star Wars Snowflakes – Paper-snowflakes going Star Wars
  • Melo – Very cool looking last.fm client for Mac OS X

QuickLinks vom 23. Juli bis zum 2. August

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 9. März bis zum 20. März

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.

QuickLinks vom 21. Februar bis zum 6. März

Meine pinboard.in-Links vom 21. Februar bis zum 6. März:

  • git-annex – allows managing files with git, without checking the file contents into git. While that may seem paradoxical, it is useful when dealing with files larger than git can currently easily handle, whether due to limitations in memory, checksumming time, or disk space.
  • Handling my music collection with git-annex – Very cool, would probably not work with iTunes…
  • Pipe Viewer – is a terminal-based tool for monitoring the progress of data through a pipeline. It can be inserted into any normal pipeline between two processes to give a visual indication of how quickly data is passing through, how long it has taken, how near to completion it is, and an estimate of how long it will be until completion.
  • tumblr2wp – Tumblr2WP makes it super simple to transfer your Tumblr content to your own, self-hosted WordPress install.
  • Naked Password – The whole idea of naked password is to encourage your users to enter stronger passwords. Our beautiful model Sally tastefully removes items of clothing as the password grows stronger.
  • beets – is the media library management system for obsessive-compulsive music geeks
  • Searching Active Directory with ldapsearch – If you think there isn't a trick to this, that means you've never tried it – leastways not on an Active Directory container that has more than 1,000 objects in it (or whatever the search limit has been set to in your environment)
  • TCP Performance problems caused be interaction between Nagle's Algorithm and Delayed ACK – The overall summary is that many of the mechanisms that make TCP so great, like fast retransmit, work best when there's a continuous flow of data for the TCP state machine to work on. If you send a block of data and then stop and wait for an application-layer acknowledgment from the other end, the state machine can falter.
  • shop – A tool to show permissions at every level in a path. Shop gives you a quick overview of the permissions of the directory in question, as well as the permissions of every directory above it in the tree.
  • monotone – is a free distributed version control system. It provides a simple, single-file transactional version store, with fully disconnected operation and an efficient peer-to-peer synchronization protocol.

QuickLinks vom 29. Oktober bis zum 18. November

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.

QuickLinks vom 13. September bis zum 29. September

Meine delicious.com-Links vom 13. September bis zum 29. September:

  • Hyperdock – adds long awaited features to your Dock: Select single application windows just by moving the mouse on a dock item, use mouse clicks to quickly open new windows and many more. Apple should buy this and include it's features in 10.7…
  • subler – is an Mac OS X app created to mux mp4 files
  • JIRA – provides issue tracking and project tracking for software development teams to improve code quality and the speed of development.
  • Redmine – is a flexible project management web application. Written using Ruby on Rails framework, it is cross-platform and cross-database.
  • The Passive Splice Network Tap – works by connecting a sniffer's RX to either the RX or TX of the wire being sniffed. By having two RX interfaces on the sniffer, you can capture full duplex traffic on the wire.
  • Everyday GIT With 20 Commands Or So

QuickLinks vom 25. August bis zum 31. August

Meine delicious.com-Links vom 25. August bis zum 31. August:

  • sshuttle – Transparent proxy server that works as a poor man's VPN. Forwards over ssh. Doesn't require admin access.
  • mNote – for Android is a fast notepad for Android allowing for offline local note editing, managment, and searching. In addition, mNote synchronizes with Simplenote
  • Dirpy – is an advanced DVR for your favorite online media. For example, use Dirpy to record your favorite YouTube videos to mp3s!
  • Git for the lazy – This guide is for people who want to jump to any point in time with their project/game/whatever, and want something to use for themselves.
  • DiG HOWTO – How to use dig to query DNS name servers
  • 100 Free High Quality WordPress Themes: 2010 Edition
  • PosteRazor – The PosteRazor cuts a raster image into pieces which can afterwards be printed out and assembled to a poster.
  • Soulver – It's quicker to use than a spreadsheet, and smarter and clearer than a traditional calculator.

QuickLinks vom 21. Juli bis zum 30. Juli

Meine delicious.com-Links vom 21. Juli bis zum 30. Juli:

  • CloudBerry Backup – provides a powerful Backup and Restore programfor Windows, designed to leverage Amazon S3 storage to make your disaster recovery plan simple, reliable, and affordable.
  • TaskMate – Very simple, minimal and free ToDo-List manager…
  • sigil – is a multi-platform WYSIWYG ebook editor. It is designed to edit books in ePub format.
  • Fossil – Simple, high-reliability, distributed software configuration management
  • pymacadmin – A collection of Python utilities for Mac OS X system administration.
  • Notes – is designed to focus on organizing plain text notes that are saved automatically. Just write your note and don't worry about saving them.
  • Shotwell – Open source photo manager for GNOME which looks a lot like iPhoto…
  • Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud im Test – Windows Pro blickt über den Tellerrand und testet die Ubuntu Cloud Lösung auf Basis von Eucalyptus.
  • The version controlled home directory – managing dotfiles using Git, MR and a few handy scripts…
  • Versioning dotfiles in git

QuickLinks vom 1. Juni bis zum 29. Juni

Meine delicious.com-Links vom 1. Juni bis zum 29. Juni:

  • The Upside of Downtime (Velocity 2010) – Great presentation about why Downtime sucks and how to appreciate this fact.
  • One Thing Well – My Linux Setup – Pretty awesome minimal linux setup including some great software hints…
  • sneakernet – is designed as a 99% offline campus filesharing network to distribute gigabyte-sized files to a network of upwards of several thousand users who all live within a square mile or so.
  • Gitbox – is a Mac OS X graphical interface for Git version control system. In a single window you see branches, history and working directory status.
  • Splunk – indexes data from any application, server or network device. It crawls logs, metrics, and other data from applications, servers and network devices and indexes it in a searchable repository from which it can generate graphs, reports and alerts.
  • Git Reference – This is meant to be a quick reference for learning and remembering the most important and commonly used Git commands. The commands are organized into sections of the type of operation you may be trying to do, and will preset the common options and commands needed to accomplish these common tasks.
  • Q10 – is a simple but powerful text editor designed and built with writers in mind. Windows only.
  • mcollective – is a framework to build server orchestration or parallel job execution systems.
  • damnvid – is a cross-platform application to download and convert videos from your hard drive or from dozens of video sharing websites like YouTube, Dailymotion, Veoh, Metacafe, etc. Basically, it's a video downloader and converter that sucks less.
  • Objective-C Tutorial – Ein Tutorial zu Objective-C, XCode und Cocoa

QuickLinks vom 26. April bis zum 12. Mai

Meine delicious.com-Links vom 26. April bis zum 12. Mai:

  • 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.