22. August 2011 | Tags: apple, automation, bluetooth, boot, browser, chrome, code, cryptography, css, development, download, dvd, filesystem, firefox, firmware, gem, gnome, gtd, hash, html, http, ios, iphone, jailbreak, linux, lion, mac, md5, osx, plugin, portable, rack, rails, rename, ruby, server, sha1, shell, time, Tracking, unix, usb, versioncontrol, web, webdesign, webdevelopment, windows, wlan, Zeit
Meine pinboard.in-Links vom 3. August bis zum 16. August:
- checksum – is a blisteringly fast, no-nonsense file hashing application for Windows that generates and verifies SHA1 and MD5 hashes
- Web Developer Extension – adds various web developer tools to a browser. The extension is available for Firefox and Chrome, and will run on any platform that these browsers support including Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.
- renameutils – are a set of programs designed to make renaming of files faster and less cumbersome.
- Lion DiskMaker – is a small application programmed with AppleScript that you can use with Mac OS X 10.6 or 10.7 to burn a DVD or build a bootable USB key from Mac OS X Lion’s Installation programm.
- ipswDownloader – Simple app for downloading firmware for Apple iPhone / iPad / iPod Touch.
- LiveReload – monitors changes in the file system. As soon as you save a file, it is preprocessed as needed, and the browser is refreshed.
- LESS.app – extends CSS with variables, nested rules, operators and more. If you're still building websites without it, you're an idiot. This app makes it dead simple to use {Less} by automatically compiling *.less files into standard CSS.
- Project Hamster – is time tracking for individuals. It helps you to keep track on how much time you have spent during the day on activities you choose to track.
- ControlPlane – Using a number of configurable evidence sources, rules and actions you can reconfigure your Mac based on what you are doing, where you are at or the time of day. Set the office printer as your default printer while at work or start a set of apps once you’re home.
- pow – is a zero-config Rack server for Mac OS X
25. Juli 2011 | Tags: apache, bash, cacti, cli, code, config, dotfiles, editor, geek, howto, html, ip, itunes, linux, mac, markdown, mod_rewrite, monitoring, music, mysql, network, osx, pdf, php, scanner, search, shell, snmp, ssh, sysadmin, tcp, terminal, text, txt, unix, uri, url, vim, visualisation, visualization, web, wlan
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.
26. März 2011 | Tags: aperture, apple, ati, bash, battery, boot, cam, code, color, database, delete, destroy, development, diff, download, dropbox, encryption, erase, firebug, fonts, forensic, format, graphic, gtd, harddisk, hardware, hdd, howto, internet, iphoto, keyboard, latex, linux, mac, macbookpro, networking, nvidia, organisation, osx, photography, privacy, proxy, quicksilver, raw, rsync, script, security, sh, shell, ssh, sync, sysadmin, tags, txt, typography, unison, unix, web, wget, wlan, workflow
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.
21. November 2010 | Tags: airplay, airport, apple, browser, chrome, code, coffee, editor, emacs, flash, geek, git, gmail, google, graphic, gtd, gui, h.264, howto, html5, imap, internet, itunes, last.fm, latex, mac, mail, mail.app, music, networking, osx, outliner, radio, safari, snowleopard, stream, todo, txt, typography, versioncontrol, vim, windows, wlan, write, writing
Meine delicious.com-Links vom 29. Oktober bis zum 14. November:
- How to Setup Gmail Over IMAP to Play Nice Within Mac OS X Mail –
- AirTunes v2 UDP streaming protocol – The information contained in this document was obtained by reverse-engineering the protocol from network dumps obtained on a Mac OS X host running iTunes.
- LaTeX Coffee Stains – This package provides an essential feature to LaTeX that has been missing for too long. It adds a coffee stain to your documents. A lot of time can be saved by printing stains directly on the page rather than adding it manually.
- Going Flash-Free on Mac OS X, and How to Cheat When You Need It – Chairman Gruber with some good points…
- VIM-LaTeX – Vim is undoubtedly one of the best editors ever made. LaTeX is an extremely powerful, intelligent typesetter. Vim-LaTeX aims at bringing together the best of both these worlds.
- Tower – Great looking and powerful Git client for Mac OS X
- Chocomoko – is a Last.fm client and player application for MacOS X Snow Leopard
- The Guide – is an application that allows you create documents which inherently have a tree and text associated with each node of the tree.
- Org-Mode – is for keeping notes, maintaining ToDo lists, doing project planning, and authoring with a fast and effective plain-text system.
26. August 2010 | Tags: airport, apple, computer, ethernet, familie, hardware, internet, network, netzwerk, storage, wds, wlan
Wie vor einigen Tagen bereits ausgeführt, gibt es bei uns zuhause familiäre und, dadurch bedingt, bauliche Veränderungen.
Womit, um Himmels Willen, fängt man als Geek also an?
Natürlich mit diesem ganzen Computerkram der in der Gegend rumsteht, blinkt, summt und auch sonst Sehr Wichtige Dinge® veranstaltet. Das blöde ist eben, dass dieses Blinken, Summen und Sehr Wichtige Dinge® tun, derzeit hauptsächlich in dem zukünftigen Kinderzimmer statt findet.
Ich habe die aktuellen Gegebenheiten für unsere Wohnung mal aufgemalt:

Und nach dem Klick erkläre ich euch das alles…
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13. Juli 2009 | Tags: apple, applescript, bachelor, blog, cc, code, creativecommons, css, dns, encryption, games, gesellschaft, growl, howto, itunes, last.fm, linux, mac, medien, music, network, osx, paper, pdf, plugin, politics, politik, radio, recht, science, security, society, theme, unix, web, wifi, wlan, wordpress
Meine delicious.com-Links vom 9. Juli bis zum 13. Juli:
16. April 2008 | Tags: airport, automator, backup, bash, cli, debug, desktop, ebay, filesystem, finder, geotag, gps, graph, gtd, ical, icon, leopard, mac, multimonitor, networking, osx, rss, shell, snmp, spotlight, testing, timemachine, visualization, wallpaper, web, windows, wlan
Meine del.icio.us-Links vom 15. April:
- Desktoptopia – is a free desktop background manager that automatically loads and displays designer desktops on your monitor, as often as you wish.
- Geotag Icon – the Feed-Icon equivalent for Geo-Information…
- Baywatch – catches the eBay-auction that is currently opened in your frontmost browser window and sticks it right into iCal.
- Show files that Time Machine does not backup –
- AirPort Flow – is a small utility to monitor the transfer rates on an AirPort Extreme.
- File Action – is a small, one-trick app that moves files from one place to another automatically to keep your computer organized and clutter free.
- OttoMate – This suite of six Automator Actions contains everything you need to graphically configure automated, repeatable user-acceptance tests for web-based applications.
21. März 2008 | Tags: cc, flickr, frankreich, hotel, paris, photo, photos, urlaub, wlan

Kathi und ich sind dann mal unterwegs. Das Hotel bietet WLAN auf allen Zimmern, also haltet ein Auge auf den Flickr-Stream…
Salut, Joyeuses Pâques!
15. März 2008 | Tags: apple, bliki, blog, code, crossplatform, debian, dhtml, flickr, gallery, game, geek, geotag, googlemaps, gps, images, iphone, iPod, lenses, linux, mac, map, mysql, osx, photo, photography, photos, photoshop, php, review, ruby, snipsnap, timeline, twitter, visualization, web, web2.0, wiki, windows, wlan
Meine del.icio.us-Links vom 13. März bis zum 14. März:
13. März 2008 | Tags: apache, apple, code, cryptography, deliciouslibrary, deutsch, development, fom, frontrow, fun, fuse, geek, git, gnome, gtd, gtk, http, icmp, iphoto, leopard, lexikon, linux, mac, macbook, movies, network, networking, openvpn, osx, ping, rails, revisioncontrol, ror, ruby, schreiben, security, shareware, sleep, ssh, ssl, thesaurus, vpn, web, wep, windows, wlan, work, wpa, write
Meine del.icio.us-Links vom 10. März bis zum 12. März:
- Purre – Play iPhoto movies in FrontRow
- Wörterbücher – Kostenloser deutscher Thesaurus und ein Deutsch-Englisch Wörterbüch für das Mac OS Lexikon
- Step by Step: Configuring SSL Under Apache –
- Developing Rails Applications on Mac OS X Leopard –
- ExpanDrive – Seems like an extended Version of sshFS… Shareware, 29$.
- SING – stands for Send ICMP Nasty Garbage. It is a tool that sends ICMP packets fully customized from command line.
- Tunnelblick – is a simple graphical user interface for the great VPN software OpenVPN 2.0 and higher
- wicd – is an open source wired and wireless network manager for Linux which aims to provide a simple interface to connect to networks with a wide variety of settings
- Libra – Freeware Library Software for Windows
- If Version Control Systems were Airlines –
- SmartSleep – is a preference pane that dynamically sets the sleep state of your machine.
- gitnub – Git kicking it OS X style. Still many exciting nibbles to be implemented!
- Scrivener – is a word processor and project management tool created specifically for writers of long texts such as novels and research papers. Shareware, 39,95 $