QuickLinks vom 9. Dezember bis zum 24. Dezember

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 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. 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 25. Mai bis zum 6. Juni

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 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 23. Dezember bis zum 1. Januar

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 3. August bis zum 10. August

Meine delicious.com-Links vom 3. August bis zum 10. August:

  • Elevation – is a free, open source route visualizer that renders personal GPS data in 3D space
  • BitlBee – brings IM (instant messaging) to IRC clients. It's a great solution for people who have an IRC client running all the time and don't want to run an additional MSN/AIM/whatever client.
  • Pay as you go sim with data Wiki – This wiki aims to collect information about pay as you go mobile phone plans from all over the world. Not just any plans though, they must include decent data rates, perfect for iPhone and Android smart phone travellers.
  • Improving your programming style with Python – Very nice Python Links and References, listed in order of difficulty.
  • A few git tips you didn't know about – Some very powerful white git magic…
  • Listary – is an excellent find-as-you-type search utility that makes searching items in large unmanageable lists of Windows applications a breeze.
  • shiftit – will let you resize and move your OSX windows without having to using a mouse. A lot like the snapping Windows 7 windows…
  • Bend – is a modern text editor. Bend takes off after the Zune client, but doesn't constrain itself to it. Find on page borrows from Apple Safari. Tabs are Google Chome inspired. This text editor aims to be elegant, clean and a pleasure to work in.
  • sonia – allows you to set up a dashboard with information that is important to you. Think Panic's Status Board.

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 29. Januar bis zum 2. Februar

Meine delicious.com-Links vom 29. Januar bis zum 2. Februar:

  • Rocketbox – is a powerful, new way of searching your e-mail in Apple Mail.app. $14,95.
  • Springer LaTeX Search Beta – lets you search through over 1,096,133 LaTeX code snippets to find the equation you need.
  • _why's Estate – Everything _why has published on the internet should be accessible from here. It works sort of like a museum that sells maps. Many of his abandoned writings are mirrored locally here, and everything else is through external links.
  • Autodesk Project Dragonfly – Free Home Design Software – Think the Sims without any Sims…
  • Ninite Easy PC Setup – installs software fast with default settings and says "no" to browser toolbars and other junk. runs on Windows XP/Vista/7 and works in the background unattended and 100% hands-free.

QuickLinks vom 24. November bis zum 25. November

Meine delicious.com-Links vom 24. November bis zum 25. November:

  • Txr – a Pattern Matching Utility for Convenient Text Extraction
  • Shadow – Clipboard Manager with Bonjour support to copy on one Mac and paste on another.
  • Ommwriter – is a simple text processor that firmly believes in making writing a pleasure once again, reinvindicating the close relationship between writer and paper. The more intimate the relation, the smoother the flow of inspiration.
  • Interview mit einer Suchmaschine – Interviewing Wolfram Alpha
  • ZDF Mediathek-Downloader – Speichert Streams aus der ZDF-Mediathek in voller Auflösung ab.