January 2011
93 posts
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cwrsync →
rsync for Windows.
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sickbeard →
Sick Beard is a PVR for newsgroup users (with limited torrent support). It watches for new episodes of your favorite shows and when they are posted it downloads them, sorts and renames them, and optionally generates metadata for them.
Still in alpha, but worth keeping an eye on.
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Zine →
Zine is a personal publishing platform a.k.a. weblog engine written in Python. It’s Open Source, free and developed with a focus on security and usability.
Looks like a credible alternative to WordPress.
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Janus →
…a basic distribution of vim plugins and tools intended to be run on top of the latest MacVIM snapshot.
Actually a pretty hefty set of plugins for a souped-up MacVim.
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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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Toggle Twitter →
An AppleScript that lets you show/hide whichever Twitter app you happen to be using.
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touchqode →
A text/code editor for Android with syntax highlighting, autocompletion and a programmer-friendly keyboard. An iPhone version is in the works.
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Tumblr-API →
A simple read-only Python client for the Tumblr API.
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urlscan →
urlscan is a small program that is designed to integrate with the
mutt mailreader to allow you to easily launch a Web browser for URLs
contained in email messages.
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Keep My Opt-Outs →
Keep My Opt-Outs is an extension for [Chrome] users who aren’t comfortable with personalization of the ads they see on the web. It’s a one-step, persistent opt-out of personalized advertising and related data tracking performed by companies adopting the industry privacy standards for online advertising.
Made by Google themselves.
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reptyr →
reptyr is a utility for taking an existing running program and attaching it to a new terminal. Started a long-running process over ssh, but have to leave and don’t want to interrupt it? Just start a screen, use reptyr to grab it, and then kill the ssh session and head on home.
Insanely useful. NB: though it’s being widely touted as a tool to use with screen, reptyr works well...
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xkcd →
A command line tool for viewing the xkcd web comic.
See also
uni.xkcd.com
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dagger →
dagger is a small command-line utility for unix/linux written in Python which tags and renames audio-files. Currently supported formats are MP3 and OGG Vorbis.
Via K. Mandla
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Reeder Readability
Like most folk who follow websites with RSS, I like a full text feed, but many publishers would rather my eyeballs landed on their site proper1, teasing me with a cryptic headline, a brief summary or (worst of all) an excerpt that cuts off in mid-sentence according to the whim of a content management system.
Reeder for Mac recently fixed this long-standing problem, offering to pre-fetch feed...
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Wikipedia CLI
You can query Wikipedia from the command line using dig.
For example,
dig +short txt monkey.wp.dg.cx
will return
“A monkey is a nonhuman primate mammal with the exception usually of the lemurs and tarsiers. More specifically, the term monkey refers to a subset of monkeys: any of the smaller longer-tailed catarrhine or platyrrhine primates as contrasted with the apes.” ”...
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Apptivate →
Apptivate lets you assign a system wide shortcut for any application or script file on your system for easy access any time.
Thanks, Bruno.
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PyBlosxom →
PyBlosxom is a lightweight file-based weblog system. The project started as a Python clone of Blosxom but has since evolved into a beast of its own. PyBlosxom focuses on three things: simplicity, extensibility, and community.
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Plowshare →
Download and upload files from Megaupload, Rapidshare and other file-sharing websites.
From the commandline, like so:
plowdown http://www.mediafire.com/?gkpag0hbiqw2s9q
or, to upload:
plowup -a username:password -d "File description" /path/to/file.zip megaupload
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Todo.txt Touch →
An Android application by Gina Trapani and the Todo.txt community designed to manage your todo.txt file stored in Dropbox.
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MP3 Trimmer →
I wouldn’t ordinarily recommend nagware that looks like a mid-1990s Windows appllication, but if you want to split an MP3 using a .cue file on a Mac—which I did today, for the first time ever—this would appear to be the only game in town.
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Captor →
Ruby scripts that, when combined with Shazam on the iPhone, can scrobble songs you listen to on vinyl to Last.fm!
More info.
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SDelete →
A command line tool for securely deleting files on Windows.
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mBlog →
A super-simple weblog script, written in PHP—drop HTML files into a directory on your server and mBlog will add them to an index page.
Via the Arch Linux Forums.
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email-reminder →
Email-Reminder allows users to define events that they want to be reminded of by email. Reminders can be sent on the day of the event and a few days beforehand. It uses a cron job to checks for events and send reminders once a day, and a simple GUI that allows users to edit the reminders they want to receive.
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email-reminder →
Email-Reminder allows users to define events that they want to be reminded of by email. Reminders can be sent on the day of the event and a few days beforehand. It uses a cron job to checks for events and send reminders once a day, and a simple GUI that allows users to edit the reminders they want to receive.
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goosh →
This google-interface behaves similar to a unix-shell. You type commands and the results are shown on this page.
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goosh →
This google-interface behaves similar to a unix-shell. You type commands and the results are shown on this page.
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:Ni! and :help!
In vim, if you type
:Ni!
in normal mode, vim shows the error message
Do you demand a shrubbery?
If you type
:help!
vim, reassuringly, says
Don't Panic!
Nerdiest. Easter. Eggs. Ever?
Confused? See here, and here respectively.
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TiddlyWiki →
TiddlyWiki is a single html file which has all the characteristics of a wiki - including all of the content, the functionality (including editing, saving, tagging and searching) and the style sheet. Because it’s a single file, it’s very portable - you can email it, put it on a web server or share it via a USB stick.
Update: @fs111 recommends Tiddlyspot, which offers TiddlyWiki...
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Coloration →
coloration is editor/IDE color scheme converter. Right now it allows you to convert your favourite Textmate color scheme (in XML plist format) to Vim, JEdit and KDevelop/Kate/Kwrite color scheme. It tries to do its best to generate the most accurate result for given target.
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Coloration →
coloration is editor/IDE color scheme converter. Right now it allows you to convert your favourite Textmate color scheme (in XML plist format) to Vim, JEdit and KDevelop/Kate/Kwrite color scheme. It tries to do its best to generate the most accurate result for given target.
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trickle →
Trickle lets you limit down- and upload speeds on a per-application basis, so you can do stuff like
trickle -s -d 200 -u 20 /usr/bin/rtorrent
or
trickle -s -d 100 wget http://example.com/a-big-file.iso
Thanks to Richard, for the tip and examples.
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trickle →
Trickle lets you limit down- and upload speeds on a per-application basis, so you can do stuff like
trickle -s -d 200 -u 20 /usr/bin/rtorrent
or
trickle -s -d 100 wget http://example.com/a-big-file.iso
Thanks to Richard, for the tip and examples.
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podget →
Podget is a simple podcast aggregator optimized for running as a scheduled background job (i.e. cron), with support for folders and categories, importing servers from OPML lists & iTunes PCAST files, automatic playlist creation and cleanup.
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podget →
Podget is a simple podcast aggregator optimized for running as a scheduled background job (i.e. cron), with support for folders and categories, importing servers from OPML lists & iTunes PCAST files, automatic playlist creation and cleanup.
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Hex Fiend →
An open source hex editor for OS X.
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Hex Fiend →
An open source hex editor for OS X.
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chi.mp →
A service that lets you aggregate your stuff from around the web in one place. You can use your http://username.mp URL for OpenID, too.
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chi.mp →
A service that lets you aggregate your stuff from around the web in one place. You can use your http://username.mp URL for OpenID, too.
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Romance has lived too long upon this river →
A single serving web page that shows you at a glance how high the tide is on the Thames, designed to be left open to rise and fall on an iPad or spare monitor.
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Romance has lived too long upon this river →
A single serving web page that shows you at a glance how high the tide is on the Thames, designed to be left open to rise and fall on an iPad or spare monitor.