November 2008
1 post
October 2008
11 posts
TinyMe - small gnu/linux distro based on PCLinuxOS →
TinyMe, a remaster of PCLinuxOS, comes packaged in a miniscule 200MB or smaller ISO. We do this for those of you who have old computers, like to mess around with small/fast systems, or just want a minimal environment. TinyMe is comparable to distributions like Puppy, AntiX, and DSL. If you like small distributions of Linux, give TinyMe a try.
whos.amung.us - real time statistics for your... →
Do you have a website, blog or social network profile? Would you like to know the number of readers you have? Want to instantly see where your visitors are from? Or find out when you had the most people online?
Appnr - Browser interface to Ubuntu Applications! →
Appnr is a web-based tool and a service that install applications on Ubuntu. This is a web interface for APT, and the package is downloaded and installed from Ubuntu/Third-party repositories.
The AptURL Protocol Handler and a Web browser support are required to install applications
nanite - Multiple Ruby Daemons →
A Nanite system has two types of components. There are nanite agents, these are the daemons where you implement your code functionality as actors. And then there are mappers. Mappers are the control nodes of the system. There can be any number of mappers, these typically run inside of your merb or rails app running on the thin webserver(eventmachine is needed) But you can also run command line...
Reinteract - Shell for Python →
Reinteract is a system for interactive experimentation with python. You enter Python code and expressions and immediately see the results. What distinguishes Reinteract from a shell (such as IPython or the builtin interactive mode) is that you can go back and edit expressions you entered earlier and the results will flow through the part of the worksheet after the changed portion.
Liquid Mongoose - Folding Paper into CD and DVD... →
The Paper Case project allows you to print a fold-able piece of paper into a CD or DVD case, using the content of the internet as your album art or movie cover. Currently, it supports music album printing on music.aol.com and movie cover printing on Netflix.
mytvrss - Alerts for your favorite TV shows →
Select your favorite shows below, and then click “Create feed” to generate your own personalized RSS feed. We’ll then alert you through the RSS feed the day an episode is aired. You don’t have to register!
skype4pidgin - Skype Plugin for Pidgin →
This is a Skype Plugin for Pidgin/libpurple/Adium. It lets you view and chat with all your Skype buddies from within Pidgin/Adium. You still need Skype to be running to be able to use it, but it lets you keep a consistent user interface and use all the other nifty Pidgin/Adium plugins with it, like spell-checking or OTR encryption.
September 2008
29 posts
Fedora Solved — Fedora Unity Project →
Fedora Solved has been created by concerned peers in the Fedora Community to bring quality HOW-TO solutions to the Community. These are members of the Community who want to see the best solutions find its way into the hands of the Community. Members may include site maintainers, Fedora Project contributors, and interested users like you.
Critters Writers Workshop →
Critters is an on-line workshop/critique group for serious writers of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror. You get your work critiqued in exchange for critiquing the work of others, both of which are invaluable ways to improve your writing.
Guppy-PE: A Python Programming Environment →
This is the home page for Guppy-PE , a programming environment providing object and heap memory sizing, profiling and analysis. It includes a prototypical specification language that can be used to formally specify aspects of Python programs and generate tests and documentation from a common source. Guppy is an umbrella package combining Heapy and GSL with support utilities such as the Glue module...
Recuva - Undelete, Unerase, File Recovery →
Recuva (pronounced “recover”) is a freeware Windows utility to restore files that have been accidentally deleted from your computer. This includes files emptied from the Recycle bin as well as images and other files that have been deleted by user error from digital camera memory cards or MP3 players. It will even bring back files that have been deleted by bugs, crashes and viruses!
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Wolfram MathWorld: The Web's Most Extensive... →
MathWorldTM is the web’s most extensive mathematical resource, provided as a free service to the world’s mathematics and internet communities as part of a commitment to education and educational outreach by Wolfram Research, makers of Mathematica.
epguides.com - TV Episode Guides →
This site contains episode lists for over 4000 TV shows. Each list displays only titles and airdates, but in most cases the episode title is a link to the page for that episode at TV.com, where there is more information such as guest stars and a plot summary.
Drop.io: Simple Private Sharing →
Simple private sharing. Drop.io is the simplest way to share files online. Simply set up a private space to drop any files by phone, email, web, widget or fax and then share them with whoever you want via a variety of outputs.
FreeMyFeed - Free Your Feed From Authentication →
Have you ever wanted to view an RSS feed in a web base feed reader such as Google Reader or Bloglines, but could not because the feed required user authentication or used an invalid SSL certificate? Well this site aims to be your solution. Using the form above, enter in the feed url, your username and password and then submit. You will be taken to a new page with an alternate URL for your use.
gotAPI - Instant search for developer... →
Searchable documentation for C/C++, Java, PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby/Rails, Erlang, Groovy, Drupal, Flickr, Symfony, CakePHP, Unit Testing Frameworks, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Databases, etc.
busuu.com - the language learning community →
busuu.com is a start-up, based in Madrid, which runs an innovative online community for learning languages.
“Do you think that the people at the airport that run the stores have any idea...”
– Jerry Seinfeld, The Limo - Seinfeld Season 3.
EasyGui - GUI Programming in Python →
EasyGUI is different from other GUIs in that EasyGUI is NOT event-driven. It allows you to program in a traditional linear fashion, and to put up dialogs for simple input and output when you need to. If you have not yet learned the event-driven paradigm for GUI programming, EasyGUI will allow you to be productive with very basic tasks immediately. Later, if you wish to make the transition to an...
Playdeb Beta - Gaming Repository for Ubuntu →
Playdeb is a gaming repository for Ubuntu - aimed to provide titles already available on getdeb.net in an easier to install and update format.
Magit, Egg - Git for Emacs →
magit.el and egg.el My search for a better Git interface for Emacs has led me to Magit, and its recent fork, Egg. I still like git.el for some things, but Magit is growing on me.
Playing with Git has become a passion! I’ve started a git-scripts for all the tiny helper scripts I use with Git.
JDiskReport - Disk Space Analyser →
JDiskReport enables you to understand how much space the files and directories consume on your disk drives, and it helps you find obsolete files and folders.
Sunrise Commander - (Better) Midnight Commander... →
As a long time user of the Midnight Commander on Linux (and, long before that, of Norton Commander and Norton Navigator on DOS), one of the first things I tried after moving to Emacs was running MC in term-mode. It was no joy, so after that I tried using nc.el and mc.el, but both scripts were far away from what I was looking for. I realized early the power of Dired (learned quite fast several...
ECL - a Common-Lisp implementation →
ECL is an implementation of the Common Lisp language as defined by the ANSI X3J13 specification. The most relevant features:
A bytecodes compiler and interpreter.
Compiles Lisp also with any C/C++ compiler. It can build standalone executables and libraries.
ASDF, Sockets, Gray streams, MOP, and other useful components.
Extremely portable.
Puppet - Automated Administrative Engine for *nix →
Puppet, an automated administrative engine for your *nix systems, performs administrative tasks (such as adding users, installing packages, and updating server configurations) based on a centralized specification.
FilePlanet: Top 50 Downloaded Game Demos →
Gaming Demos Looking for gaming files? We’ve got them. Update with patches, try out demos, watch movies, add on modifications, and more.
Game Trials at TryGames
Page2RSS - Create an RSS feed for any web page →
It is a service that helps you monitor web sites that do not publish feeds. It will check any web page for updates and deliver them to your favorite RSS aggregator.
August 2008
32 posts
BookDarts - Mark pages in books →
Not just the original Page Point. Way more than a book mark! Answers the question: “How can we mark our exact passages, find them again, quickly and surely, and never harm the page?”
Feed Rinse - Filter RSS feeds →
Feed Rinse is an easy to use tool that lets you automatically filter out syndicated content that you aren’t interested in. It’s like a spam filter for your RSS subscriptions.
Ohloh - the social network for open source... →
“I think of Ohloh as a social network for Open Source developers and users and I am grateful to the people behind it for providing this service.”
Sass - Syntactically Awesome StyleSheets →
Sass is a meta-language on top of CSS that‘s used to describe the style of a document cleanly and structurally, with more power than flat CSS allows. Sass both provides a simpler, more elegant syntax for CSS and implements various features that are useful for creating manageable stylesheets.
Free Web Control Panel Software
OpenPanel: OpenPanel is designed to provide full control over all technical processes on a server through an inviting, attractive interface. Four layers of management allow the admin and all users to efficiently run their services. Our code base is completely open source and this project aims to become an open platform for external developers.
GNUPanel: GNUPanel is a completely free (GPL)...
Science News - Seeing In Four Dimensions →
Points in a plane can be described with pairs of numbers, and points in space can be described with triples. Why not quadruples, or quintuples, or more?
The videos are all available free at www.dimensions-math.org. The videos go on to show how we can visualize imaginary numbers geometrically, how fractal patterns emerge in the Mandelbrot set and Julia sets, and how beautiful and complex shapes...
SweetCron - Free Lifestream Software →
The Free & Open Source Lifestream Blog Software like FriendFeed but Free and self-hosted.
Feng-GUI - Feng Shui for Graphic User Interfaces →
Find out how people see your website, photo or ad and which areas are getting most of the attention.
This artificial intelligence service simulates human vision during the first 5 seconds of exposure to visuals.
ClickHeat - Clicks heatmap →
ClickHeat is a visual heatmap of clicks on a HTML page, showing hot and cold click zones.
syntaxhighlighter - Google Code →
SyntaxHighlighter is here to help a developer/coder to post code snippets online with ease and have it look pretty. It’s 100% Java Script based and it doesn’t care what you have on your server.