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+.

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

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.

Meine pinboard.in-Links vom 21. März bis zum 3. April:

• Boxer – plays all the MS-DOS games of your misspent youth, right here on your Mac.
• Vim Recipes – is a free cookbook for Vim, the popular text editor. It does not replace Vim's excellent built-in documentation, but complements it by focussing on tasks rather than commands.
• WinSplit Revolution – is a small utility which allows you to easily organize your open windows by tiling, resizing and positioning them to make the best use of your desktop real estate
• flashbake – A seamless source control solution combines the convenience of automated back up with the power of source version control.
• ScraperWiki – is a platform for writing and scheduling screen scrapers, and for storing the data they generate
• The Motherfucking Manifesto For Programming, Motherfuckers – We are tired of XP, Scrum, Kanban, Waterfall, Software Craftsmanship (aka XP-Lite) and anything else getting in the way of…Programming, Motherfucker.
• How to use iWeb to build a killer frontpage for your Facebook Fan Page. –
• PHP-RegExp-Tutorial – Ausführliche, deutschsprachige Informationen zum Aufbau und zur Verwendung von Regulären Ausdrücken in PHP.
• CLCL – Is a clipboard caching utility for Windows. Works with text and files.
• git-friendly – is a collection of shell scripts for automating basic git workflows that you probably find yourself typing over and over again.

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.

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.

Ich bin ja nicht der einzige Mensch auf der Welt, der gerade an seiner Diplomarbeit sitzt¹.

Und mein Kommilitone Oli benötigt für die seine mit dem Titel Potential von Microblogging zur unternehmensinternen Kommunikationsoptimierung noch Teilnehmer für seine Umfrage. Wenn du schon mal was von Twitter gehört hast² nimm doch bitte rasch daran teil.

Das dauert keine drei Minuten, ist völlig anonym und ihr helft einem FOM-Studenten dabei sein Werk zu vollenden. Also rinnjehauen und danke sehr.

1. So mancher ist ja sogar schon fertig.. [↩]
2. Aktive Teilnahme ist keine Voraussetzung [↩]

Meine delicious.com-Links vom 28. August bis zum 3. September:

• Principia Discordia – Principia Discordia, 1st Edition.
• Backing Up Flickr – Backing up Flickr with Python…
• A Guide on Advanced Logging and Benchmarking with FirePHP –
• 4-minute Chocolate Mousse – This incredibly decadent, luxurious chocolate mousse recipe comes to us from Gordon Ramsay (to whom I lovingly refer as Angry Chef). You have to try this! It's worth every single minute of effort.
• Burning Man And Its Radical Links To Silicon Valley And Geek Culture –
• TweetMyMac – lets you get screenshots, iSight snapshots, and your IP address from your Mac just by sending a direct message to your specially setup Mac controlling account. You can start torrents remotely, shutdown your Mac and more.
• How to Actually Make Coffee – You probably brew coffee, like most people, the most insipid way possible: Using a Mr. Coffee that you fill with pre-ground coffee from the supermarket. There's a million other ways to make coffee, and they're all better.
• MiniBatteryStatus Widget – is a small Dashboard widget that monitors battery status, charge percentage and remaining battery life. Integrated with Growl to alert you when it's time to recharge your battery.
• DateLine – is a small, simple app which displays a linear calendar on your desktop in a transparent window. It provides easy access to iCal by double clicking on a day. The background and text colors are customizable with support for transparency.
• Ye Olde Map Maker – Very cool online tool to create maps for table-top role playing games.

Meine delicious.com-Links vom 18. August bis zum 19. August:

• Using Subversion to Maintain your Configuration Files – Dipping into the topic, nice starter…
• A Visual Guide to Version Control – Version Control with Subversion in plain english topped with some great diagrams.
• shootShifter – … redate and rename folders of images on a Mac. Perfect for events with multiple cameres around.
• Mediathek – Das Programm durchsucht die ARD-, ZDF-, Arte und 3Sat-Mediathek, lädt Beiträge mit einem Programm eigener Wahl und kann Themen als Abos anlegen und neue Beiträge automatisch downloaden.
• Wenn Unternehmen twittern – (…)Im Übrigen wäre es zu begrüßen, wenn ihr einen Kommunikationsplan für die tweets der kommenden 14 Tage erstellen könntet. Dann haben wir mehr Planungssicherheit.

Meine delicious.com-Links vom 18. Mai bis zum 27. Mai:

• CalendarServer – CalendarServer ohne OS X 10.5 Server…
• Power Management and Scheduling via the Command Line – Very nice pmset howto…
• Intel Social Media Guidelines – Every company will need something like this sooner or later. I bet sooner…
• gpicsync – automatically inserts location in your photos metadata so they can also be used with any 'geocode aware' application like Picasa/Google Earth, Flickr, loc.alize.us, etc.
• yUML – Create UML diagrams online in seconds, no special tools needed.