December 2011
59 posts
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glark →
A replacement for (or supplement to) the grep family, glark offers: Perl compatible regular expressions, highlighting of matches, context around matches, complex expressions (“and” and “or”), and automatic exclusion of non-text files.
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Tilda →
Tilda is a Linux terminal taking after the likeness of many classic terminals from first person shooter games, Quake, Doom and Half-Life to name a few, where the terminal has no border and is hidden from the desktop till a key or keys is hit.
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reddit.py →
reddit.py provides an easy, convenient terminal command that will parse and print the RSS feed for the reddit front page, or any of reddit’s subreddits.
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TextSoap →
Find and remove unwanted, extraneous, text. Clean up emails scattered with forwarding marks or make clean paragraphs out of hard to read, broken lines of text, all with a simply click. TextSoap works not just on email, but any any text you might work with, including from the web, a Word document from a co-worker who put a return at the end of each and every line, or output from some mainframe...
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runiq →
Runiq functions in a manner quite similar to GNU uniq, but runiq allows you to specify keys based on regular expressions in stead of field or the first N characters. Runiq takes most of the options that uniq does but omits the character and field related arguments —check-chars, —skip-fields, and —skip-chars since the same funtionality can be achieved using Perl regular...
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dotEPUB →
dotEPUB is software in the cloud that allows you to convert any webpage into an e-book.
Available as an extension for Chrome, and a bookmarklet for all browsers.
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Melo →
A simple, good-looking Last.fm updater for OS X.
Mac App Store
Thanks, T.W.
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fp and fk →
Brett Terpstra got in touch to share a pair of shell functions similar to any—fp helps you find running process, fk lets you kill them.
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Cloak →
A VPN service with clients for OS X and iOS. On the former the app attempts to detect insecure networks and connect automatically.
Unusually, there’s a free tier—1 GB or 2 hours per month—so you can take Cloak for a spin without committing to a monthly plan.
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sysdiagnose →
sysdiagnose — gathers system-wide diagnostic information helpful in investigating system performance issues.
On OS X.
Via Forkbomber
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Patterns →
Patterns is a simple yet powerful tool for working with regular expressions. Build great patterns quickly and effortlessly with syntax coloring and with matching and replacing occurring in real time.
I’m not sure if ‘effortlessly’ is quite the right word, but this certainly makes writing regular expressions less painful.
Mac App Store
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Football League Official Clubs' App →
If you need up-to-date stats from the Football League, minute-by-minute text commentary on match days, plus news of your team and their opponents, this is the app to get.
I realise that almost all of you don’t need such a thing, but since the app has long been a fixture on my home screen I feel I owe it a link.
App Store
See also
Football League Clubs’ App for Android.
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any
A very handy function for your ~/.zshrc—cribbed from the Grml distro’s excellent zsh config—that lets you search for running processes:
any() {
emulate -L zsh
unsetopt KSH_ARRAYS
if [[ -z "$1" ]] ; then
echo "any - grep for process(es) by keyword" >&2
echo "Usage: any " >&2 ; return 1
else
ps xauwww | grep -i --color=auto...
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Go2Shell →
Go2Shell opens a terminal window to the current directory in Finder.
Designed to sit in your Finder toolbar.
Mac App Store
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Photofon →
Photofon for iPhone is the easiest way to browse photos from your Twitter timeline. We strip out all the boring stuff and just show you the tweets with photos!
A fun little app from the makers of Echofon.
App Store
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List of Chromium Command Line Switches →
A long, automatically updated list of options, most of them unavailable in Chromium’s Preferences.
On my netbook I use --memory-model=low, --disable-desktop-notifications and, sometimes, --disable-internal-flash.
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f →
f is a tool for quick access to files in bash and zsh. It is inspired by tools like autojump, z and v. f keeps track of files you have accessed, so that you can quickly reference them in the command line. f ranks files and directories by “frecency,” that is, by both “frequency” and “recency.”
f is a little more flexible than the tools mentioned above1,...
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mg →
mg is intended to be a small, fast, and portable editor for people who
can’t (or don’t want to) run emacs for one reason or another, or are not
familiar with the vi(1) editor. It is compatible with emacs because
there shouldn’t be any reason to learn more editor types than emacs or
vi(1).
Found after running the aforementioned w on my devio.us...
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w →
The w command displays a summary of the current activity on
the system, including what each user is doing. The heading
line shows the current time, the length of time the system
has been up, the number of users logged into the system, and
the average number of jobs in the run queue over the last 1,
5 and 15 minutes.
Via Andre Torrez
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shutup.css →
Hide the comments sections on various popular websites—add it to your browser as a user stylesheet, or grab an extension for Chrome or Safari.
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TouchCursor →
TouchCursor lets you use the home keys as cursor keys – in all Windows programs – keeping your fingers in the best position for fast typing. It’s free and open-source.
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Charles →
Charles is an HTTP proxy / HTTP monitor / Reverse Proxy that enables a developer to view all of the HTTP and SSL / HTTPS traffic between their machine and the Internet. This includes requests, responses and the HTTP headers (which contain the cookies and caching information).
For Linux, Mac & Windows.
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stderred →
stderred hooks on write() function from libc in order to colorize all stderr output that goes to terminal thus making it distinguishable from stdout. Basically it wraps text that goes to file with descriptor “2” with proper escape codes making text red.
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TextMate 2 Alpha →
Yes, you’ve probably seen this already, but I feel duty bound to post it—the long-awaited TextMate update has landed.
I’m enjoying it thus far, but it’s very much an alpha: expect crashes and hangs.
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On Dir →
On Dir is a program that automatically executes scripts as you traverse directories at a terminal.
Via /r/linux
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DaisyDisk →
DaisyDisk scans your disks and presents their content as interactive maps where you can easily spot unusually large files and remove them to get more free space. The map gives you an overview of your data, so you always know what your hard disks are filled with.
Speaking as someone with a dinky 48 GB boot drive, this is a great way to hunt down chunky files occupying precious space.
...
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Clipman →
Clipman is a clipboard manager for Xfce. It keeps the clipboard contents around while it is usually lost when you close an application.
Not just for Xfce—bind the included xfce4-popup-clipman utility to a command key combo and Clipman works nicely with other DEs and WMs.
See also
clipbored
Jumpcut
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vcsh →
vcsh allows you to have several git repositories, all maintaining their working trees in $HOME without clobbering each other. That, in turn, means you can have one repository per config set (zsh, vim, ssh, etc), picking and choosing which configs you want to use on which machine.
This looks very handy if you have a complex set of configuration files and work on multiple machines.
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MyScript Memo →
A note-taking app with handwriting recognition for iOS that offers a variety of export options including Evernote and Twitter. One proviso: notes are limited to a single page.
App Store
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Gelatin →
Gelatin automatically merges PDF files. Drag and drop your files to the app, it takes care of the rest.
You can do the same thing with Preview, but it’s relatively fiddly, and Gelatin is free.
Mac App Store
Via TUAW.
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SimplyRead →
SimplyRead is a simple program to remove unwanted distractions from webpages, in order to better enjoy reading on the web. It removes everything but the article from a webpage, displaying it simply and attractively. The program is packaged as an extension for several web browsers, or as a standalone JavaScript program to integrate into other browsers.
Via Jason Ryan.
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FreeScrub →
FreeScrub is a PyGTK based application which will scrub EXIF and other metadata out of images
and documents. This is useful for people who want to publish images and documents without
revealing any information about their location, their camera or their computer hardware. It’s also
quite useful for web developers as it reduces the size of the file by removing unneccesary text
...
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git-dude →
git-dude is a simple git desktop notifier. It monitors git repositories in current directory for new commits/branches/tags and shows desktop notification if anything new arrived.
Notifications are via notify-send or kdialog on Linux and Growl on OS X.
Thanks mkulik!
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9menu →
9menu is a simple program that accepts a list of menu item and command pairs on the command line. It creates a window that consists of nothing but a menu. When a particular item is selected, the corresponding command is executed.
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Piezo →
A simple audio recorder for OS X that lets you record the audio output of any app, or from your Mac’s audio inputs.
Mac App Store
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Speed Notes →
Speed Notes is a note-taking application for Dropbox and iPhone that offers a very simple interface inspired by the open-source Notational Velocity. Searching for and creating notes can be done entirely by typing in the text box on home screen…
Notes are stored as plain text files in your Dropbox.
App Store
Via mathowie.
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pyamazon →
An Amazon music downloader for Linux, with a choice of CLI, GTK and QT user interfaces.
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PixFit →
PixFit is an easy-to-use utility for finding dimensions of objects on your screen.
A simple menu bar utility for OS X that lets you measure anything displayed on your monitor, either manually by dragging guidelines or automatically by clicking and letting PixFit guess what you’re measuring.
Mac App Store
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yturl →
A simple YouTube media URL grabber for use with MPlayer or similar, like so:
mplayer -cache 8192 "$(yturl 'gWJIQm9qH-w')"
More info.
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taffybar →
This is a desktop information bar intended for use with XMonad and similar window managers. It is similar in spirit to xmobar; it is different in that it gives up some simplicity for a reasonable helping of eye candy. This bar is based on GTK+ (via gtk2hs) and uses fancy graphics where doing so is reasonable and useful.
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Find Big Mail →
Find Big Mail scans your Gmail, labelling the large ones so you can reclaim some space.
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safe-rm →
Safe-rm is a safety tool intended to prevent the accidental deletion of important files by replacing /bin/rm with a wrapper, which checks the given arguments against a configurable blacklist of files and directories that should never be removed. Users who attempt to delete one of these protected files or directories will not be able to do so and will be shown a warning message instead.
See...
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FUSE for OS X →
FUSE for OS X allows you to extend Mac OS X’s native file handling capabilities via third-party file systems. OSXFUSE is a successor to MacFUSE, which has been used as a software building block by dozens of products, but is no longer being maintained. As a user, installing the OSXFUSE software package will let you use any third-party file system written atop OSXFUSE or MacFUSE, if you...
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Brightness Slider →
A menu bar app that gives you fine-grained control over your Mac’s screen brightness.
Mac App Store
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Gow →
Gow (Gnu On Windows) is the lightweight alternative to Cygwin. It uses a convenient “Windows installer” that installs about 130 extremely useful open source UNIX applications compiled as native win32 binaries. It is designed to be as small as possible, about 10 MB, as opposed to Cygwin which can run well over 100 MB depending upon options.