December 2010
42 posts
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Tund →
Tund (tunneling daemon) establishes a reverse SSH tunnel from some publically accessible computer to your own. In the event of theft or loss, you can log in to your machine as soon as it connects to the internet.
Dec 31st
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Dec 31st
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Smaller →
Smaller is a Graphic User Interface for YUI Compressor on the Mac. It helps you batch minify CSS and JavaScript files with a nice drag and drop interface. It’s a perfect tool for we Web designers and developers that are not big fans of command line. Thanks, Patrick
Dec 31st
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randomplay →
Randomplay allows you to play your music collection in random order with a memory of songs played preserved across sessions, so you don’t “lose your place” if you have to shut down.
Dec 31st
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KindleTwit →
Twitter, optimised for Kindle users. I imagine this’d suit Courier on the Newton nicely, too—I’d check, but seem to have forgotten how to get my Newt online!
Dec 30th
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Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas, everyone! If you’re celebrating, I hope you all have a lovely day. I plan to spend the afternoon drunkenly installing Arch Linux (or, possibly, Linux Mint Debian) on my Christmas Eee PC 1018P. Very festive!
Dec 25th
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Due →
A reminder and timer app for iPhone and iPad.
Dec 24th
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Pit →
Pit is a command-line project manager that integrates with Git.
Dec 23rd
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Dec 22nd
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iTerm2 →
A fork of the OS X terminal application with improved bookmarking and a split screen view.
Dec 21st
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edway →
Edway is an interactive text-mode editor for audio files, in the style of ed, edbrowse, or the mainframe counterparts: fred, or qed. To edit an audio file, you might type something like this: edway filename.wav An eccentric way to interact with audio files, perhaps, but edway has some sophisticated and powerful features—you can bookmark points in a file (handy for audiobooks), rip web...
Dec 20th
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SecondBar →
SecondBar is a Tool which allows you to have more than one menubar in Mac OS X. This is useful if you have multiple monitors connected to your mac.
Dec 20th
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gitmarks →
A command line bookmarking tool that stores web page contents and metadata in a git repository—handy for a group of folk sharing bookmarks, I imagine. Needless to say, a del.icio.us importer is included.
Dec 17th
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Dec 17th
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N900 Notifier →
N900 Notifier is a simple application to display notifications of incoming SMS and Calls on your computer. It is similar to android-notifier. The client runs on N900 devices (Maemo) and the server component runs on Ubuntu, Mac OS X and Windows. Via bashvi
Dec 17th
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Pinboard →
Yahoo! are shutting down del.icio.us, ending their careless stewardship of a once-great service. If you’re still using the bookmarking service, I recommend jumping ship to Pinboard. It will happily import all your del.icio.us bookmarks, and works very much like del.icio.us used to, minus the social aspects. At the time of writing, signing up will set you back $71. See my (gushing)...
Dec 16th
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Orb →
An orb is a website that you or a group can edit. So simple it’s silly.
Dec 16th
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SecondBar →
SecondBar is a Tool which allows you to have more than one menubar in Mac OS X. This is useful if you have multiple monitors connected to your mac.
Dec 16th
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N900 Notifier →
N900 Notifier is a simple application to display notifications of incoming SMS and Calls on your computer. It is similar to android-notifier. The client runs on N900 devices (Maemo) and the server component runs on Ubuntu, Mac OS X and Windows. Via bashvi
Dec 16th
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PureText →
Paste text stripped of any formatting, on Windows. Thanks, Philbert.
Dec 16th
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Dec 15th
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Dec 15th
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android-notifier →
This project sends notifications to a desktop computer when certain events happen on an Android device, such as the phone ringing, an SMS being received, or the battery running low. Is there an iOS equivalent?
Dec 15th
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pianobar →
pianobar is a free/open-source, console-based replacement for pandora’s flash player. I haven’t been able to test this, as I’m not in the US.
Dec 14th
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Tiny Programs →
The programs listed here are provided as exhibitions of just how compressed a Linux ELF executable can be and still function. Take a look through /usr/bin: how big is the smallest ELF executable in there? Now try writing the smallest hello-world program you can. Can you get it under 1K? Can you get it under 100 bytes? Including a version of ls—complete with many of the commonly-used...
Dec 14th
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TinyOgg →
Feed TinyOgg the URL of a YouTube video, and it’ll convert it from Flash to Ogg Theora and host the resulting file for 48 hours.
Dec 13th
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z →
z keeps track of the directories you cd to, and lets you ‘jump’ to the ones you cd to the most. See also: autojump
Dec 13th
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Vanilla Forums →
Vanilla Forums are open-source, standards-compliant, customizable discussion forums. Forum software that doesn’t suck? Blimey.
Dec 10th
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Charm →
Charm is a cross-platform blogging client A command line interface for Blogger, LiveJournal, Movable Type & Wordpress (but not Tumblr).
Dec 10th
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ToroPHP →
Toro is a tiny framework for PHP that lets you prototype web applications quickly.
Dec 9th
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Dec 9th
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Epistle →
Epistle is a (very) simple text editor that can sync all your notes to Dropbox. With Epistle you can create, modify, rename and delete notes. That’s it. For Android.
Dec 8th
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V7/x86 →
The first public release of V7/x86, a port of UNIX Version 7 to the x86 (IA-32) based PC is now available. UNIX V7 was the last general distribution (around 1979) to come from the Research group at Bell Labs, the original home of UNIX. You know you want to. By ‘you’ I mean ‘I’ and by ‘want to’ I mean ‘will probably spend three hours getting it to...
Dec 8th
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Fix Command
fc is a shell builtin command that lets you do some cool stuff with your shell history. Run it without any arguments, and you can edit the previous shell command in your text editor of choice1. To run your freshly-edited command, just save and quit. fc -l returns a numbered list of recent commands (just like history). fc followed by one of those numbers will open that command in your...
Dec 7th
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The Panic Museum →
Off topic, but I love the way Panic maintain an exhaustive archive of their software. I doubt there are many users out there running OS 9 and wondering if they should switch from SoundJam to Audion, but it’s good to see a software house keeping users of older hard- and software in mind.
Dec 7th
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most →
most is to less as less is to more, adding some interesting extras like left/right scrolling and split windows.
Dec 7th
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Ophcrack →
Ophcrack is a free Windows password cracker based on rainbow tables. It is a very efficient implementation of rainbow tables done by the inventors of the method. It comes with a Graphical User Interface and runs on multiple platforms. Via The Grauniad.
Dec 3rd
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Dec 3rd
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Ge.tt →
A quick ‘n’ simple way to share a file, and view realtime download statistics.
Dec 2nd
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RubyDrop →
A self-hosted Dropbox-style file synchronisation tool based on Git. Via HN
Dec 2nd
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Perch →
Perch is a really little content management system for when you (or your clients) need to edit content without the hassle of setting up a big CMS.
Dec 1st
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Dec 1st
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