May 2013
59 posts
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Bonsai →
Bonsai builds dynamic web sites that run anywhere. Perfect for portfolios, catalogues and other image-heavy sites.
There’s no database or admin interface - just templates for the HTML, YML files for the content, and the file system defines the hierarchy. Upload the results and you’re away.
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boris →
Python has one. Ruby has one. Clojure has one. Now PHP has one too. Boris is PHP’s missing REPL (read-eval-print loop), allowing developers to experiment with PHP code in the terminal in an interactive manner. If you make a mistake, it doesn’t matter, Boris will report the error and stand to attention for further input.
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Docker →
Docker is an open-source engine which automates the deployment of applications as highly portable, self-sufficient containers which are independent of hardware, language, framework, packaging system and hosting provider.
Any combination of binaries, libraries, configuration files, scripts, virtualenvs, jars, gems, tarballs, you name it.
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Type2Phone →
Type2Phone lets you use your Mac as Bluetooth keyboard to your iPhone, iPad or Apple TV.
Mac App Store
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crudini →
crudini is a utility to simplify reading and updating ini files from shell scripts, so named as it provides CRUD functionality.
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Whit →
Whit is an open source project that allows you to query Wikipedia, CrunchBase, and several other APIs via SMS.
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Palua →
Palua, the easy way to quickly switch the mode of your Function Keys on any Mac keyboard!
You need to run a game, or start a graphic application, or work on a project that need F1-F12 as function keys, just hit option+command+TAB and the switch will happen.
Mac App Store
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jingo →
A simple git based wiki engine written for Node.js.
The aim of this wiki engine is to provide a very easy way to create a centralized documentation area for people used to work with git and markdown. It should fit well into a development team without the need to learn or install ad-hoc servers or applications. Jingo is very much inspired by the github wiki system (gollum), but tries to be...
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xdo →
Small X utility to perform elementary actions on windows
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Easy Release →
Professional-grade model releases, created and signed, right on your iPhone, iPad and… Android.
App Store / Google Play
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Wry →
Wry is a command-line client for App.net for Mac OS X 10.7+ (Lion), written in Objective-C.
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Fries →
Fries lets you prototype Android apps using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
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TaskBadges →
TaskBadges is a free app that adds the number of open tasks in your
plain-text todo list to the file’s icon so that it shows up in Finder and on the desktop.
With support for todo.txt, TaskPaper and ‘square bracket’ list formats.
Mac App Store
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Red Pen →
Red Pen lets you upload your design, share a short URL, and get live, annotated feedback super-fast. It remembers you— there’s no logging in, no project management, no bullshit.
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gitit →
Gitit is a wiki program written in Haskell. It uses Happstack for the web server and pandoc for markup processing. Pages and uploaded files are stored in a git, darcs, or mercurial repository and may be modified either by using the VCS’s command-line tools or through the wiki’s web interface.
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doo →
Doo is a sort of reverse ‘everything bucket‘ — point it at local directories, hook up your cloud storage or web mail accounts, and the app provides search, filtering tagging & OCR, no matter where your documents are stored.
For OS X, Android and Windows 8.
Mac App Store / Google Play / Windows Store
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phog →
What is phog? A static-site generator along the lines of Jekyll, Volt, nanoc etc. but for the purpose of generating image & video galleries and photo blogs. It’s not a general purpose blogging engine — galleries are the main focus.
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cocoaDialog →
cocoaDialog is an OS X application that allows the use of common GUI controls such as file selectors, text input, progress bars, yes/no confirmations and more with a command-line application. It requires no knowledge of Cocoa, and is ideal for use in shell and Perl scripts (or Ruby, or Python, or… etc).
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Task Till Dawn →
Task Till Dawn is a free task scheduler which can execute your repetitive tasks (i.e. open files or applications) at specified times or intervals.
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Push to Kindle →
Push to Kindle lets you send web articles (news stories, blog posts, Wikipedia entries) to your Kindle app or device for a better reading experience.
Add nicely-formatted articles to your Kindle via extensions for Chrome, Firefox, Opera & Safari, or an Android app.
Amazon Appstore / Google Play
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GistBox →
A web-based, Gist-backed code snippet manager.
Via gridwriter.
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ikiwiki →
Ikiwiki is a wiki compiler. It converts wiki pages into HTML pages suitable for publishing on a website. Ikiwiki stores pages and history in a revision control system such as Subversion or Git.
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Get Plain Text →
Get Plain Text is a practical utility program to process text within Mac OS: It converts copied text into plain text.
Get Plain Text will convert any bit of text into plain text, no matter where you copied it from (a website, PDF document or elsewhere). You can activate the feature manually, or check “Automatically remove formatting” to make the app take care of it every time you copy...
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gitdown →
gitdown is a script which moderates your git committing activity based on your blood alcohol content (BAC). It uses the DrinkShield for Arduino as a breathalyzer, and a Ruby script as the git hook.
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Mini Display →
Mini Display turns your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch into an external display through Wi-Fi.
App Store
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dzenstat →
dzenstat is a simple monitor that prints system information out to the console. It is meant to be used in combination with dzen2.
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MacUtil →
MacUtil is a customization application for the Mac. It allow you to make your mac your own, with lots of customization options ranging from two dimensional docks to modifications of CoreOS files.
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Blockchain →
The Blockchain android app provides a convenient way to access your bitcoin wallet on the move. Any keys you generate or transactions you make will be automatically synced with your My Wallet account.
With two levels of encryption, automated wallet backups and paper wallet support.
Google Play
Thanks, Donny!
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App.net Invitations
After I set up an Alpha account for One Thing Well last week, the folk over at App.net suggested I give away a bunch of invitations to their service.
Fancy joining? Click on this link:
https://join.app.net/from/gpvcbnkfjf
If you sign up to App.net via the URL above, you’ll get an account on the free tier1 and automatically follow @onethingwell.
There are 150 accounts available, and...
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kissdb →
KISSDB is about the simplest key/value store you’ll ever see, anywhere. It’s written in plain vanilla C using only the standard string and FILE I/O functions, and should port to just about anything with a disk or something that acts like one.
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Horcrux →
Horcrux lets you automatically backup your mails from any IMAP supported accounts (Gmail, Microsoft Exchange etc) with great ease.
The backups take place silently and unobtrusively in the background.
See also
OfflineIMAP
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Oak Outliner →
A web-based, keyboard-friendly outliner based on FoldingText.
See also
Fargo
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Ashes →
Ashes is an iOS client for Fever, the self-hosted RSS reader, with support for a bevy of read later services and social media sites.
App Store
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Archiver →
Extract, compress and preview archive files in a wide variety of formats.
Via Mac App Storm.
See also
The Unarchiver
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Sip →
A keyboard-driven colour picker for OS X—whack a command key combo and the colour under your cursor is added to your clipboard, in the format of your choice (Hex, RGB, HSL, &c.).
Mac App Store
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pro →
pro is a command to wrangle your git repositories. It includes features like instantly cd’ing to your git repos and getting a status overview, and running an arbitrary command in every git repo.
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xctool →
xctool is a replacement for Apple’s xcodebuild that makes it easier to build and test iOS and Mac products. It’s especially helpful for continuous integration.
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pdf2htmlEX →
pdf2htmlEX renders PDF files in HTML, utilizing modern Web technologies. It aims to provide an accuracy rendering, while keeping optimized for Web display.
pdf2htmlEX is best for text-based PDF files, for example scientific papers with complicated formulas and figures. Text, fonts and formats are natively perserved in HTML such that you can still search and copy.
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MobaXterm →
MobaXterm is an enhanced terminal for Windows with an X11 server, a SSH client and several other network tools for remote computing (VNC, RDP, telnet, rlogin). MobaXterm brings all the essential Unix commands to Windows desktop, in a single portable exe file which works out of the box.
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ampere →
A bittorrent client that runs in the browser without plugins. Currently only works in Chrome.
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bcron →
This is bcron, a new cron system designed with secure operations in
mind. To do this, the system is divided into several seperate programs,
each responsible for a seperate task, with strictly controlled
communications between them. The user interface is a drop-in
replacement for similar systems (such as vixie-cron), but the internals
differ greatly.
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Trend →
trend is a general-purpose, efficient trend graph for “live” data. Data is read in ASCII form from a file or continuously from a FIFO and displayed in real-time into a multi-pass trend (much like a CRT oscilloscope). trend can be used as a rapid analysis tool for progressive or time-based data series together with trivial scripting.
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Geocaching →
A cross-platform suite of mobile apps that help you find geocaching containers near you, and log your finds or provide location hints for future seekers.
(Geocaching is—roughly speaking—a GPS-assisted, object-based outdoor version of hide and seek for grown-ups. And much more fun than I just made it sound.)
App Store / Google Play / Windows Phone Store
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Quotebook →
Quotebook is a notebook for your quotes.
Collect the snippets of language that matter most to you and organize them by author, source, rating, and tags.
App Store
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Mosaic →
Mosaic magically connects multiple iPhones, iPod touches, and iPads together into one big screen to view photos and share files.
See the demo video for details—the ‘one big screen’ thing is a fun gimmick, but Mosaic’s quick ‘n’ easy, Bump-style file transfer feature looks to be the real draw.
App Store
