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Omnium

A Notational Velocity-style note-taker for Windows.

Thanks, fakeid

Socks

Socks is a utility for troubleshooting, maintaining, optimizing, and customizing Mac OS X.

Gitolite

Gitolite allows you to host Git repositories easily and securely.

BashFlash

BashFlash lets you stop the Flash plug-in dead in its tracks, letting your new-fangled Mac cool down, use less power, and give you more time to do whatever it is you do.

Via Macworld

Email Without The Inbox

Does what it says on the tin—send emails without the distraction of seeing your inbox.

I use a command line equivalent:

mutt -s "Subject" hello@example.com < message.txt

Ksplice

The utility that lets you update your kernel without rebooting is now free for both Fedora and Ubuntu Desktop users.

xbindkeys

xbindkeys is a program that allows you to launch shell commands with your keyboard or your mouse under X Window. It links commands to keys or mouse buttons, using a configuration file. It’s independant of the window manager and can capture all keyboard keys.

Courier

Courier allows you to share files, images, photos, movies, and more with all your favourite online services.

Pro: useful, and simple to use. Con: it has a wood-effect user interface, everything seems to be animated, and there’s a prominent slider that practically demands a finger-swipe.

In other words, the iOSification of the Mac desktop is here. Which I find… worrying.

The Fridge

A social networking site designed for small, ad-hoc, private, invitation-only groups; you can set up as many groups as you like.

It’s interesting to see a simple, hosted response to the Facebook privacy kerfuffle pop up, in contrast to the distributed, self-hosted, not-quite-so-simple solutions from Appleseed, Diaspora, GNU Social et al..

Less

The CSS framework now has less fewer features and lets you easily design a responsive layout that works well on desktop, tablet and mobile devices.

Syncopation

Syncopation from Sonzea provides a hands-free solution to keep your iTunes music collection synchronized across multiple computers running Mac OS X.

Via stevenf

Priority Inbox

Google is rolling out a new filtered view of your Gmail inbox—‘important & unread’ messages will float to the top, above starred messages, with ‘everything else’ at the bottom.

Early reviews suggest it works well, and works with your existing filters.

As far as I can tell, though, Priority Inbox only works if you use Gmail’s web interface, rather than, eg. adding a new IMAP folder for the important stuff, leaving those of us who like to download our mail and read it in a client out in the cold.

Dirpy

Dirpy is an advanced DVR for your favorite online media. For example, use Dirpy to record your favorite YouTube videos to mp3s.

Via waxy