February 2012
63 posts
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Wily →
Wily is a mouse-oriented, text-based working environment for programmers. It lets you interact with your files, directories and other programs through mouse and keyboard operations on plain text.
Similar to Plan 9’s Acme editor.
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Comment Snob →
Comment Snob is an extension for Google Chrome that filters out undesirable comments from comment threads on the Web.
Undesirable comments include those with excessive punctuation, all caps, no caps, &c..
The extension ships with support for YouTube, but you can add filters for various other sites or—if you know a bit of HTML and jQuery—write your own.
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sscrotwm →
A fork of spectrwm (which used to be called scrotwm) that trims away several features, on the grounds that ‘a tiling window manager should just help you tile the windows’.
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Mantastic →
Mantastic is a small Heroku web service for storing man pages and cheat sheets in the Markdown format which is converted to Roff for you!
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MinGW →
MinGW, a contraction of “Minimalist GNU for Windows”, is a minimalist development environment for native Microsoft Windows applications. MinGW provides a complete Open Source programming tool set which is suitable for the development of native MS-Windows applications, and which do not depend on any 3rd-party C-Runtime DLLs.
Includes GCC, bash, make, gawk and grep.
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Key Codes →
Key Codes is a little utility that displays the key code, unicode value, and modifier keys state for any key combination you press.
For OS X.
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termendous →
A handy little web app that makes writing (and sharing) colourschemes for xterm or urxvt a simple point ‘n’ click affair.
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lsx →
List executables in a directory tree. It just does this, nothing else.
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Gyms Near Me →
A site which shows you a map of the UK, highlighting all the gyms nearest to you.
Not the usual OTW fare, perhaps, but this is a side-project by my friend Donny and I thought I’d give it a plug, since it does indeed do one thing well.
The technical underpinnings are interesting. It’s a static site that makes use of Google’s Fusion Tables—a service for storing,...
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Tyler →
A tiling window manager for OS X that automatically arranges your windows according to pre-defined layouts.
It’s not perfect, particularly when it comes to focussing windows, and is hobbled to some extent for reasons beyond the developers control—certain apps refuse to be resized, Mission Control is a bit rubbish—but Tyler comes pretty close to matching the functionality of the...
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Caudec →
Caudec is a BASH script that transcodes audio files from one format (codec) to another. It leverages multi-core CPUs with lots of RAM by copying input files to a tmpfs mount, and running multiple processes concurrently (one per file and per codec).
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TOfU →
A simple drag ’n’ drop Facebook image uploader for OS X.
Mac App Store
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sselp →
Simple X selection printer. Prints the X selection to stdout. If there is no X client owning the selection it just exits. Useful for scripts where you can query the X selection without pressing mouse Button2 in cumbersome ways.
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btpd →
Btpd is a utility for sharing files over the BitTorrent network protocol.
It runs in daemon mode, thus needing no controlling terminal or gui.
Instead, the daemon is controlled by btcli, its command line utility,
or other programs capable of sending commands and queries on the control
socket.
I use Transmission’s transmission-daemon and transmission-remote in much the...
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Fresh →
Fresh grants you quick access to new, recently edited and open files on OS X via a heads-up display—handy for those ‘where did I just save that?’ moments.
Mac App Store
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meh →
meh is a small, simple, super fast image viewer using raw XLib. It is similar to feh, but faster and simpler. meh can use ImageMagick’s convert to view almost 200 file formats, though it is slower for these formats. Built in formats are JPEG, PNG, BMP, and netpbm.
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Tanis →
Tanis is an iOS app that lets you take full control of a SABnzbd server from an iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad.
As well as controlling a SABnzbd daemon, Tanis lets you search for and add .nzb files from a variety of indexing sites.
App Store
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Booktype →
Booktype is a free, open source platform that produces beautiful, engaging books formatted for print, Amazon, iBooks and almost any ereader within minutes.
Web-based, with an emphasis on collaborative writing and editing.
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sw →
sw stands for Suckless Web-framework. As the name suggests It aims to be a minimal and sane web framework.
A static site generator that turns directories containing Markdown files into a website, using standard tools like grep, sed and awk.
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Bedbug Registry →
The official iPhone app of the Bedbug Registry, a free, public database of user-submitted bedbug reports from hotels and apartment buildings across North America. Search for bedbug reports by location when apartment hunting or planning your next trip, or submit your own report if (God forbid!) you come across them yourself.
I’m mostly posting this as an excuse to link to Maciej ‘Pinboard’...
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Ronn →
Ronn converts textfiles to standard roff-formatted UNIX manpages or HTML. ronn-format is based on markdown but includes additional rules and syntax geared toward authoring manuals.
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Goblin →
Goblin is a recreation from scratch of the traditional Unix and Plan 9 command line tools but this time built using the Go programming language. The goal is elegance and simplicity more than compliance with older implementations.
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Phraseology →
Phraseology is an app for writers. Part text editor, part word processor, Phraseology is a simple environment focused on making it enjoyable and productive to write on the iPad. Phraseology also supports your writing with tools that help to improve word selection and better understand and structure your text.
Phraseology’s clever Arrange mode is ideal for ‘bash it out, then knock it into...
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igal2 →
igal2 is a quick and easy program for placing your images online with just one command-line. It generates a pretty good-looking set of W3-compliant static HTML slides even with its default settings.
A quick and simple way to create a gallery of images. The default output isn’t, in fact, ‘pretty good-looking’, but the templates are easy to tweak.
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Tunnelblick →
Tunnelblick is a free, open source graphic user interface for OpenVPN on Mac OS X. It provides easy control of OpenVPN client and/or server connections.
It comes as a ready-to-use application with all necessary binaries and drivers (including OpenVPN and tun/tap drivers). No additional installation is necessary — just add your configuration and encryption information.
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Messages Beta →
Messages Beta brings iMessage to Mac and lets you send unlimited messages to iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, or Mac right from your Mac.
A Mountain Lion app, available today.
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PyCmd →
PyCmd is a ‘smart’ command prompt extension for Windows’ cmd.exe; its purpose is to emulate a few power features of UNIX shells.
Including smart completion, searchable history and emacs-style keybindings.
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some_sorta_bar →
A simple bar to display the root window name for lightweight window managers.
Perhaps the simplest of the many status bar applications available.
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Middleman →
Middleman is a small tool for developing stand-alone, static websites. It’s great for separating frontend development from the backend, developing blazingly fast static websites or quickly creating prototypes
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pytograph →
Reflect local filesystem changes on a remote system in real time, automatically. In a nutshell, you instruct pytograph that there are directory structures on your machine that match directory structures on a remote machine. It monitors the directories on your local machine for changes, then makes identical changes on the remote machine in real time via SFTP.
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SkipTunes →
A wonderfully simple music controller for OS X, with support for iTunes, Rdio and Spotify. It lives in the menu bar and provides two buttons: play/pause and skip.
Mac App Store
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Kirby →
A CMS written in PHP that eschews a database in favour of files and folders, with an emphasis on flexibility—you could use it to whip up a simple blog or a full-blown site, without needing to be a PHP expert.
See also:
Stacey, a similar CMS that’s open source rather than commercial. Thanks for the reminder, anatomatic!
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power_mon →
power_mon is a self contained application that checks the battery status and if charged or low will pop up a small X window.
Handy if you use a window manager without a status bar or conky.
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xhotkeys →
Xhotkeys provides a simple and easily configurable hotkey launcher for the X-Window System, binding keys and mouse buttons to configurable commands. It should work on all desktops (Gnome, KDE, Xfce, …) available for the GNU/Linux operating system. Configuration files can be modified manually or using a graphical GTK+ configurator.
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xType
A typing shortcut expansion1 utility for OS X.
It doesn’t quite match the mighty TextExpander feature for feature, but the essentials are there. Definitely worth checking out (it’s free) if you aren’t already wedded to one of its rivals.
Mac App Store
Apologies for the ungainly phrase—I can’t think of a snappy way to describe these things. ↩
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movgrab →
movgrab is a downloader for all those pesky sites that insist you use a big fat browser that runs flash in order to see their content. It’s a command-line app written in straight C.
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multicd →
multicd.sh is a shell script designed to build a multiboot CD image containing many different Linux distributions and/or utilities.
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Barnowl →
BarnOwl is a curses-based IM client forked from the ktools owl project. BarnOwl currently supports Zephyr, AIM, Jabber, IRC, and Twitter and aims to be easily extensible and customizable through a Perl plugin interface.
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WatchFileShuttle makes it easy to upload files to your server via FTP or SFTP. You can drop files on the Dock icon, have FileShuttle upload screenshots automatically, and upload the contents of your clipboard with a command key combo.
Mac App Store
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easystroke →
Easystroke is a gesture-recognition application for X11. Gestures or strokes are movements that you make with you mouse (or your pen, finger etc.) while holding down a specific mouse button. Easystroke will execute certain actions if it recognizes the stroke; currently easystroke can emulate key presses, execute shell commands, hold down modifiers and emulate a scroll wheel.
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YOUURLS →
YOURLS is a small set of PHP scripts that will allow you to run your own URL shortening service. You can make it private or public, you can pick custom keyword URLs, it comes with its own API.
Complete with fancy stats reporting, and an API.
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tmsu →
tmsu is an application that allows you to organise your files by associating them with tags.
This works in an interesting way: you tag your files at the command line, then work with them via a virtual filesystem, in which each tag appears as directory.