• 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.

• 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+.

• spark – A little shell script that lets you generate sparklines at the command line.
• glogg – is a multi-platform GUI application to browse and search through long or complex log files. It is designed with programmers and system administrators in mind. glogg can be seen as a graphical, interactive combination of grep and less.
• ResophNotes – Notational Velocity clone for Windows including Simplenote-sync and Markdown support
• Pandoc – is your swiss-army knife if you need to convert files from one markup format into another. Need to generate a man page from a markdown file? No problem. LaTeX to Docbook? Sure. HTML to MediaWiki? Yes, that too.
• GitLab – is your own lite app for projects/repositories hosting on your server. Basically it is a free GithHub Clone written in Ruby on Rails.
• Coordino – allows you to create a question and answer system for you and your users to enjoy. Basically it is a free StackOverflow Clone written in PHP.
• KeyStroke – is a Safari extension that provides customizable keyboard shorcuts for common tasks and enhancements.
• Samurize – is an advanced system monitoring and desktop enhancement engine for Windows. IT professionals, overclockers, gamers and desktop modders alike use Samurize for system information, weather reports, news headlines and much much more.
• dexy – is an open source document automation tool that can help you create documents using your favourite programming languages and your favourite software.
• MarkdownPad – is a full-featured Markdown editor for Windows.

• threesome – is a Vim plugin for resolving conflicts during three-way merges. It's designed to be used as a merge tool for version control systems like Mercurial and Git.
• efa – is a commandline client for the http://efa.vrr.de web interface. It can request itineraries for train/tram/bus connections throughout Germany, based on various parameters such as date/time, preferred train types and such. It is most useful inside the VRR, but works fine for the rest of Germany as well.
• Format Factory – is a multifunctional media converter for Windows.
• qlmarkdown – is a simple QuickLook generator for Markdown files.
• LastHistory – allows you to analyze music listening histories from Last.fm through an interactive visualization and to explore your own past by combining the music you listened to with your own photos and calendar entries.
• How to clean Apple products –
• Bookmarklets for text manipulation – Quickly create markdown links to current page with selected text.
• Mass Deploying Time Machine in Mac OS X Lion – The tmutil command allows administrators to enable Time Machine, make snapshots, kick off backups, delete snapshots, perform restores, configure options within Time Machine and, with a little scripting, build a centralized dashboard, pulling in Time Machine statistics from clients.
• boom – motherfucking text snippets on the command line.
• HOWTO Use UTF-8 Throughout Your Web Stack – You write web apps. You understand the web is global, and want to support internationalization. You want UTF-8.

• solo – is a very simple script (10 lines) that prevents a program from running more than one copy at a time. It is useful with cron to make sure that a job doesn't run before a previous one has finished
• teamocil – is a tool used to automatically create sessions, windows and splits in tmux with Ruby and YAML. Like tmuxinator, but with splits, not just windows.
• BoxCryptor – is a cryptographic virtual harddisk that encrypts all data on-the-fly using the AES-256 standard. Encrypted data is stored in an arbitrary directory of your choice, e.g. one that is synced to the cloud like your Dropbox folder.
• ColorPicker Pro – is an easy to use color detection tool for developers and designers.
• auto_torrent – Give it a list of stuff to look out for, set your bittorrent client’s ‘watch’ directory to match auto_torrent’s download directory, infringe copyright without lifting a finger.
• Supervisor – is a client/server system that allows its users to monitor and control a number of processes on UNIX-like operating systems.
• Jump – type j in a terminal, and enter your query at the prompt: results will be updated live as you type. Switch between suggestions with up and down arrow, select with enter and boom you’re in the right directory. Basically, all the fancy web 2.0 autosuggest mojo right in your terminal.
• Vigor – the popular Unix editor vi with the addition of the Vigor Assistant, has arrived.
• Conque – is a Vim plugin which allows you to run interactive programs, such as bash on linux or powershell.exe on Windows, inside a Vim buffer. In other words it is a terminal emulator which uses a Vim buffer to display the program output.

“90 percent of the US Internet population does not know that. This is on a sample size of thousands,” Russell said. “I do these field studies and I can’t tell you how many hours I’ve sat in somebody’s house as they’ve read through a long document trying to find the result they’re looking for. At the end I’ll say to them, ‘Let me show one little trick here,’ and very often people will say, ‘I can’t believe I’ve been wasting my life!’”

Ich glaube eigentlich nicht, dass das hierzulande groß anders ausschaut.

Eine kurze, wenig repräsentative Umfrage unter den Mitbewohnern förderte folgende Ergebnisse zutage:

• Die Ehefrau: Kennt die Funktion, wurde ihr mal von einer Arbeitskollegin in Excel gezeigt.
• Der Sohn: Kennt die Funktion bisher nicht, nimmt Computer und deren Unbillen eh noch nicht so ernst da man an ihnen nicht lecken darf.
• Die Katze: Kennt die Funktion vermutlich, schweigt aber beharrlich da jedes Ausplaudern in ihrer Geheimsekte mit schlimmen Dingen bestraft wird…

Meine Wenigkeit nutzt Suchfunktionen allerorten mit Inbrunst. Wenn ich in Vim in einer Datei die gesuchte Stelle sehe, aber nicht binnen Millisekunden erkennen kann, wie ich mit Bewegungskommandos da hin komme, wird sofort die Suchfunktion benutzt. Wir sparen hier jeden Tastenanschlag, irgendwie muss man ja das Vimgolf Handicap verbessern.

Daher hier als kostenlose Dienstleistung an der Menschheit: Benutzt Cmd-F oder, wenn ihr nicht auf einem Mac unterwegs seid, Ctrl-F, um Dinge in Dokumenten schnell zu finden. In 99 % aller Fälle ist das Suchen mit den Tasten schneller als das Suchen mit den Augen und dem Scrollwheel.

(via: MacMacken, Zitat vom Atlantic)

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.