One Thing Well

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.

multicd

multicd.sh is a shell script designed to build a multiboot CD image containing many different Linux distributions and/or utilities.

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.

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.

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.

mitmproxy

mitmproxy is an SSL-capable man-in-the-middle HTTP proxy. It provides a console interface that allows traffic flows to be inspected and edited on the fly. mitmdump is the command-line version of mitmproxy, with the same functionality but without the frills. Think tcpdump for HTTP.

xtract

Designed for file manager integration, Xtract decompresses and extracts archives, and can also list archive contents. By default, an archive is extracted into a subfolder of the same name.

Xtract also works on the command line—use the -n flag to suppress the GUI.

privoxy

Privoxy is a non-caching web proxy with advanced filtering capabilities for enhancing privacy, modifying web page data and HTTP headers, controlling access, and removing ads and other obnoxious Internet junk. Privoxy has a flexible configuration and can be customized to suit individual needs and tastes.

I can’t believe I haven’t posted about privoxy before: I’ve used it for years to block ads (among other things) for all the computers and devices on my network at home, and on my netbook when out and about. It’s stable, reliable, and whitelisting sites with decent, unobtrusive adverts is easily done.

stormfs

Mount Amazon S3, Google Cloud Storage or Eucalyptus as a local filesystem. (Support for Dropbox and Rackspace Cloud Files is planned, too.)

webfs

This is a simple http server for mostly static content. You can use it to serve the content of a ftp server via http for example. It is also nice to export some files the quick way by starting a http server in a few seconds, without editing some config file first.

SpaceFM

SpaceFM is a multi-paned tabbed file manager for Linux with built-in VFS, optional udisks-based device manager, customizable menu system, and bash integration.

A fork of legacy PCManFM.

autokey

AutoKey is a desktop automation utility for Linux and X11. It allows you to manage collection of scripts and phrases, and assign abbreviations and hotkeys to these. This allows you to execute a script or insert text on demand in whatever program you are using.