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QuickLinks vom 30. Juni bis zum 9. Juli

der Dennis — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 06:02:12 +0000

Meine delicious.com-Links vom 30. Juni bis zum 9. Juli:

Your PasswordCard – is a credit card-sized card you keep in your wallet, which lets you pick very secure passwords for all your websites, without having to remember them! You just keep them with you, and even if your wallet does get stolen, the thief will still not know your actual passwords.
sslh – ssl/ssh multiplexer – lets one accept both HTTPS and SSH connections on the same port. It makes it possible to connect to an SSH server on port 443 (e.g. from inside a corporate firewall) while still serving HTTPS on that port.
An introduction to git-svn for Subversion/SVK users and deserters – This article is aimed at people who want to contribute to projects which are using Subversion as their code-wiki
Meerkat – An easy-to-use SSH tunnel manager built specifically for the Mac. Shareware, $19,95…
Add to Google Reader Safari Extension – captures a click on the RSS button and redirects the feed preview page in Google Reader where the user can subscribe immediately.
Test: Windows 7 Backup – was es kann und was nicht – So was kann man offenbar nicht auf gewöhnliche Enduser los lassen…
Little 'ruby' photo organizer – Place this script in a folder full of pictures, run it, and it will organize the pictures into folders by the day they were taken.
Tarsnap – is a secure online backup service for BSD, Linux, OS X, Solaris, Cygwin, and can probably be compiled on many other UNIX-like operating systems. The Tarsnap client code provides a flexible and powerful command-line interface which can be used directly or via shell scripts.
Git Extensions – is a toolkit to make working with Git under Windows more intuitive. The shell extension will intergrate in Windows Explorer and presents a nice context menu on files.
Fraise – is a free text editor for Mac OS X Leopard 10.6 which is both easy to use and powerful. It is designed to neither confuse newcomers nor disappoint advanced users. It should work perfectly for a whole variety of needs – like web programming, script editing, making a to do list and so on..

QuickLinks vom 1. Juni bis zum 29. Juni

der Dennis — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 09:06:06 +0000

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

der Dennis — Sun, 16 May 2010 16:13:47 +0000

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.

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 2. Februar bis zum 25. Februar

der Dennis — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 07:33:32 +0000

Meine delicious.com-Links vom 2. Februar bis zum 25. Februar:

Pino – is a Twitter and Identi.ca client for the Linux desktop. It's simple, fast and native.
Attachment Scanner Plugin for Mail.app – When you send a message, it checks if there's an attachment. If there isn't, and it looks like you've referred to an attachment in the body of your mail (by using a word like attach, attaching, attachment, etc), it gives you a warning. Most of the time, you should never notice that this plugin is running, but in those cases when you do need it….
Air Video – can stream videos in almost any format to your iPhone and iPod touch. You don't need to copy your videos to the device just to watch them.
Amp – is unlike any other VCS software to date. Amp's novel command system gives you the flexibility to customize and personalize the way you develop software.

QuickLinks vom 19. Januar bis zum 27. Januar

der Dennis — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 17:00:16 +0000

Meine delicious.com-Links vom 19. Januar bis zum 27. Januar:

A successful Git branching model – Not too different from some SVN-structures I know, but enhanced with all the distributed version control stuff and painless branching and merging of git…
larch – is a tool to copy messages from one IMAP server to another quickly and safely. It’s smart enough not to copy messages that already exist on the destination and robust enough to deal with interruptions caused by flaky connections or misbehaving servers. Larch is particularly well-suited for copying email to, from, or between Gmail accounts.
imapsync – is a tool for facilitating incremental recursive IMAP transfers from one mailbox to another. It is useful for mailbox migration, and reduces the amount of data transferred by only copying messages that are not present on both servers. Read, unread, and deleted flags are preserved, and the process can be stopped and resumed. The original messages can optionally be deleted after a successful transfer.
Harry Potter: Top 10 Butterbeer Recipes – Butterbeer. It warms you up, tastes great, and gives you a frothy moustache!

QuickLinks vom 7. Oktober bis zum 15. Oktober

der Dennis — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 09:00:04 +0000

Meine delicious.com-Links vom 7. Oktober bis zum 15. Oktober:

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.

QuickLinks vom 23. Juli bis zum 5. August

der Dennis — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 15:00:17 +0000

Meine delicious.com-Links vom 23. Juli bis zum 5. August:

App Store Expense Monitor – Berechnet wieviel für iPhone-Apps aus dem App Store ausgegeben wurde
Outlook-QuoteFix – can modify MS Outlook's message composition windows on-the-fly to allow for correct quoting and to change the appearance of your plain-text replies and forwards in general: move your signature, use compressed indentation, customize your quote header, etc.
iFlicks – Using iFlicks you can easily import your Video Collection into iTunes. This gives you the ability to watch your Videos directly in iTunes or transfer them to your iPod or iPhone. On top of that iFlicks downloads Metadata for your Videos and lets you tweak the Metadata manually.
ColorBox – A light-weight, customizable lightbox plugin for jQuery 1.3
RubyFrontier Documentation – It’s a way of maintaining and generating Web sites. It imitates UserLand Frontier, but it’s written in Ruby.
Pro Git Book – The whole Pro Git book online.
Glims – adds a cocktail of features to Safari (Tabs, Thumbnails, Full Screen, Search Engines, Search Suggestions, Forms autocomplete on, Dated download folders, Type Ahead …)
Jack OS X – is a low-latency audio server, written originally for the GNU/Linux operating system, and now with Mac OS X support. It can connect any number of different applications to a single hardware audio device; it also allows applications to send and receive audio to and from each other.
StudioTwentyEight | Wallpapers – Great wallpapers, often available in dual and triple versions…

QuickLinks vom 10. April bis zum 21. April

der Dennis — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 06:00:40 +0000

Meine delicious.com-Links vom 10. April bis zum 21. April:

Cucumber – lets software development teams describe how software should behave in plain text. The text is written in a business-readable domain-specific language and serves as documentation, automated tests and development-aid – all rolled into one format.
ClueMapper – is a web-based application for managing software and software-based consulting projects. Currently it uses Trac to handle individual projects but adds the ability to create new trac instances, svn configurations, etc.
Sequential 2 – is an image viewer for Mac OS X. It was originally designed for opening a folder of images and displaying them in order. It works well for viewing comics and manga.
Mac als Mail-Server und Spamfilter –
Bringing up baby bilingually | Twice blessed | The Economist –
Telehouse to Heat Homes at Docklands – Datecenter excess heat used in nearby homes and offices…
Testing SMTP servers with SWAKS – The swaks package contains a tool which allows you to watch an SMTP conversation, feeding it pretty flexible commands.
Green-IT – BITKOM – Massig Material zu Green IT

QuickLinks vom 16. März bis zum 23. März

der Dennis — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 08:00:14 +0000

Meine delicious.com-Links vom 16. März bis zum 23. März:

The anatomy of cloud computing –
Diakonos – the console text editor with a key mapping you practically already know. Easy to use and easy to configure, but potent in the hands of power users.
GlusterFS – is a clustered file-system capable of scaling to several peta-bytes. It aggregates various storage bricks over Infiniband RDMA or TCP/IP interconnect into one large parallel network file system.
Maperture – Combining the power of Aperture and Google Maps (the mapping engine you know and love), Maperture is a powerful, new edit plug-in that makes geotagging your photos a snap.
HoudahGeo – may store latitude, longitude and altitude information right within the image file – invisibly with no loss of quality. HoudahGeo writes EXIF, XMP and IPTC tags. $30.