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 8. Oktober bis zum 22. Oktober

Meine pinboard.in-Links vom 8. Oktober bis zum 22. Oktober:

  • Apple Store Refurb Tracker – provides different feeds enabling you to track apparition of new products on the Apple Store Refurb pages.
  • Pinky – is a free portable web server.
  • PieCrust – is a static website generator and lightweight CMS that’s all managed with text files. No complex setup, databases, or administrative panels.
  • num-utils – are a set of programs for dealing with numbers from the Unix command line. Much like the other Unix command line utilities like grep, awk, sort, cut, etc. these utilities work on data from both standard in and data from files.
  • Bashish – is a theme enviroment for text terminals. It can change colors, font, transparency and background image on a per-application basis. Additionally Bashish supports prompt changing on common shells such as bash, zsh and tcsh.
  • Fake – is a new browser for Mac OS X that makes web automation simple. Fake allows you to drag discrete browser Actions into a graphical Workflow that can be run again and again without human interaction.
  • Avatar Harmony – Synchronize your profile pics between Facebook, Twitter and Gravatar.
  • git-dude – is a simple git desktop notifier. It monitors git repositories in current directory for new commits/branches/tags and shows desktop notification if anything new arrived.
  • Private Eye – is a free network monitor for Mac OS X Lion
  • bcat – pipe to browser utility

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 3. Mai bis zum 25. Mai

Meine pinboard.in-Links vom 3. Mai bis zum 25. Mai:

  • Sosumi – is a simple way to find your iPhone using your Mac.
  • NirCmd – is a small command-line utility that allows you to do some useful tasks without displaying any user interface.
  • GeoNamesTagger – is a Mac OS X docklet to easily update image EXIF, IPTC and XMP metadata with location specific information.
  • Oolite – is a space sim game, inspired by Elite, powered by Objective-C and OpenGL, and designed as a small game that is easy for users to pick up, modify and expand upon. Almost every aspect of the game can be changed by using simple, free graphics packages and text editors.
  • DTerm – provides a context-sensitive command line that makes it fast and easy to run commands on the files you're working with and then use the results of those commands.
  • Using p4merge with Git – Although it is correct that git doesn't come with a nice merge tool, it is quite happy to use any merge tool that you have on hand. And since Perforce's merge tool is available free, you can use p4merge with git.
  • Rubular – is a Ruby-based regular expression editor. It's a handy way to test regular expressions as you write them.
  • 5 Best Dropbox WordPress Plugins – Nice list, Dropbox Sync looks especially nice for a backup of all images.
  • Vagrant – is a tool for building and distributing virtualized development environments. By providing automated creation and provisioning of virtual machines using Oracle's VirtualBox, Vagrant provides the tools to create and configure lightweight, reproducible, and portable virtual environments.
  • Blueprint – is DevStructure's workhorse tool that looks inside popular package managers, finds changes you made to configuration files, and archives software you built from source to generate Puppet, Chef, or shell code. Everything blueprint sees is stored in Git to be diffed and pushed. It runs on Debian and RPM based distros with Python 2.6.

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 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 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 13. Dezember bis zum 22. Dezember

Meine delicious.com-Links vom 13. Dezember bis zum 22. Dezember:

  • RTMPDump – is a toolkit for RTMP streams that actually works.
  • z – maintains a jump-list of the directories you actually use
  • RubyDrop – Ruby project that aims to be an open-source, roll-your-own, Dropbox clone using Git as the backend. There's still a lot of details to work out, and the code may be a little messy, so you'll have to bear with me (it's a process)
  • Writing clean, testable, high quality code in Python – Catastrophically bad code can be written in any language, including the elegant and powerful Python language. In this article, we explore how thinking about testing actually produces dramatically different Python code. Lastly, we learn how to measure scientifically the difference.
  • tig – is a git repository browser that additionally can act as a pager for output from various git commands
  • Build a Bootable Rescue SD Card For Your Mac
  • Textual – is a lightweight IRC client created specifically for Mac OS X
  • Detox – is a utility designed to clean up filenames. It replaces difficult to work with characters, such as spaces, with standard equivalents. It will also clean up filenames with UTF-8 or Latin-1 (or CP-1252) characters in them.

QuickLinks vom 29. September bis zum 9. Oktober

Meine delicious.com-Links vom 29. September bis zum 9. Oktober:

  • Notational Velocity forked – Fullscreen mode, menubar app, and more…
  • MultiMarkdown Syntax Guide – This is a guide to the markup syntax used in the MultiMarkdown system.
  • WriteMonkey – is light, fast, and perfectly handy for those who enjoy the simplicity of a typewriter but live in modern times.
  • PDF Mod – is a simple application for modifying PDF documents. You can reorder, rotate, and remove pages, export images from a document, edit the title, subject, author, and keywords, and combine documents via drag and drop.
  • Emergent Task Planner – is a Daily Planning Sheet that provides a way for you to lightly structure your day. By helping you visualize the time you have, you can get a sense of just how much work you can get done done.
  • LiveView – is a specialized remote screen viewing application intended as a tool to help designers create graphics for mobile applications, it has also proven to be useful for creating quick and dirty simulations, demos, and experience prototypes.
  • we eat fine – "… ist eine sammlung von rezepten, die wir in unserem alltäglichen leben zubereiten. essen spiegelt für uns eine lebensphilosophie wieder und ist für uns (meistens) gleichbedeutend mit entspannung, genuss, kommunikation und kreativität." Bei der Kesro gefunden…
  • SparkleShare – is a syncing and collaboration tool that shines by its absence. Attempts to become a open source, self hosting, git based Dropbox clone…

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.