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Worqshop is a small development environment for the iPad with GitHub and Heroku support. It features a fast code editor with syntax highlighting for Python, Ruby, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript files.
The Github integration is particularly slick: import a project, commit changes, deploy via post-receive hooks. An interesting alternative to the iPad coding apps that use SSH, SFTP, &c. to grant you direct access to remote machines.
Searchable and nicely-formatted RFC documents from the IETF (including my favourite, RFC 2324, which describes the HTCPCP).
The source is available on Github.
Via The Changelog.
cellout is a simple battery status printer.
I just spotted the following question from Memo on the wonderful Ask MetaFilter:
I love the One Thing Well blog and the newish The Toolbox. Are there any other good link blogs similar in purpose (links to resources and webapps instead of news/articles)?
You’d think I’d be able to answer that, but the sources I use for this weblog are tag feeds from social bookmarking sites, forums, weblogs that don’t focus on software exclusively and—best of all!—submissions from readers.
So, if you know of any cool software link blogs, do head over to Ask MeFi if you’re already a MetaFilter user1, or send me an email and I’ll pass on your tips and write up a post of recommended sites next week.
Only MetaFilter members can answer questions; an account on the site costs $5. ↩
Use WiFi2HiFi to turn your [iOS device] into a wireless audio receiver for your stereo system or sound-dock. Combined with the desktop app WiFi2HiFi Station you can listen to whatever audio program is playing on your computer.
There’s one minor flaw—a ~2 second lag when pausing, playing or skipping a track—but otherwise WiFi2HiFi comes highly recommended: setup is simple, it’s stable and the sound quality is good, especially when using a dock.
ifconfig.me returns your external IP address, remote host, browser user agent and lots more useful info. You can view a summary at the website, or grab info at the command line, like so:
curl ifconfig.me/ip
Thanks, fs111
properVolume is a little app that sits in your menu bar, providing instant access to various sound settings and preferences—you can pick input and output devices, change volume levels precisely with visual metering, set the volume on inactive devices, &c..
In short, properVOLUME will save you a lot of futzing around in the Sound pane in System Preferences.
It’s available in the Mac App Store and developer pjv has kindly provided a batch of promo codes for One Thing Well readers. Get ‘em while they’re hot:
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Fountain is a simple markup syntax for writing, editing and sharing screenplays in plain, human-readable text. Fountain allows you to work on your screenplay anywhere, on any computer or tablet, using any software that edits text files.
Takes a snapshot with your Mac’s built-in iSight/FaceTime webcam (or any working webcam on Linux) every time you git commit code, and archives a lolcat style image with it.
If you, or somebody you love, truly wants the Library folder to be forever visible in the Finder, a good trick is to add a script Login item to do the deed. Here are detailed instructions for achieving this.
Including a wee snippet of AppleScript to unhide ~/Library.
A text editor and graphical shell that shipped with Plan 9 from Bell Labs. It has, putting it mildly, an unusual interface that largely eschews keyboard shortcuts in favour of ‘mouse chording’.
You can use it on Linux, OS X and *BSD via Plan 9 from User Space, and on Windows (and the other three) with Acme Stand Alone Complex. (Or by installing/booting Plan 9 from Bell Labs/Plan 9 from the People’s Front of cat-v.org )
A website that returns your external IP address, and nothing else.
Via /r/linux
