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Bookmarks for December 6th through April 26th

Stephen Skory — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 19:04:44 +0000

These are my links for December 6th through April 26th:

CTAN: directory: /tex-archive/info/symbols/comprehensive – A comprehensive list of LaTeX symbols in a PDF.
Low End Box – Cheap VPS Hosting Providers Listing & Reviews – A blog with links to various cheap VPS/VPN hosts.
AASTeX – LaTeX template.
numexpr – Fast numerical array expression evaluator for Python and NumPy. – Google Project Hosting – A way of evaluating statements on numpy arrays that runs faster than normal numpy.
EC2 and Ubuntu – Alestic.com – Pre-built Ubuntu AMIs for Amazon AWS.
python-progressbar – Text progressbar library for python. – Google Project Hosting – Simple and easy!
Onyx – A tool for housekeeping your Mac.
FrontPage – pytagsfs – A FUSE project that creates virtual views of your music collection and can sort them in many different ways.
Metacritic – Movie Reviews, TV Reviews, Game Reviews, and Music Reviews – Collects critical ratings of media, kind of like rotten tomatoes, but for more than just movies.

Bookmarks for November 29th through December 5th

Stephen Skory — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 16:31:54 +0000

These are my links for November 29th through December 5th:

FrontPage – pytagsfs – A FUSE project that creates virtual views of your music collection and can sort them in many different ways.
Stereo Stack: A kaleidoscopic-wonderland of hi-fidelity and dual-dynamic vibrancy – Banners of the STEREO adornments/advertising on LPs.
aria2 project – A command line tool for downloading files using multiple streams for overall higher performance.
JPEGmini – Your Photos on a Diet! – An service that compresses JPEGs very efficiently with very little noticeable loss of quality.
grin 1.2.1 : Python Package Index – A super-charged grep, written in python.

Bookmarks for October 8th through November 11th

Stephen Skory — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 22:38:55 +0000

These are my links for October 8th through November 11th:

grin 1.2.1 : Python Package Index – A super-charged grep, written in python.
Stereo Stack: A kaleidoscopic-wonderland of hi-fidelity and dual-dynamic vibrancy – Banners of the STEREO adornments/advertising on LPs.
Tiny Tiny RSS – WikiStart – Tiny Tiny RSS – A self-hosted RSS reader, something like Google Reader.
http://www.juretta.com/log/2007/02/04/mac_os_x_command_line_goodies/ – Some useful command line goodies for Mac OS X.
The libTorrent and rTorrent Project – Trac – A command-line bittorrent client.

Bookmarks for September 13th through October 5th

Stephen Skory — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 22:46:22 +0000

These are my links for September 13th through October 5th:

Macfusion – A GUI front-end to sshfs, built on top of MacFUSE or similar implementations.
sshfs binaries for Mac OS X – Download sshfs binaries for use with FUSE, but works only with fuse4x, not any other FUSE as far as I can tell.
FUSE for OS X (OSXFUSE) – The successor to MacFUSE (which is no longer maintained). Compatible with 64-bin Lion, in particular.
Mirrors : Ubuntu – A list of mirrors of the Ubuntu distribution. More difficult to find than you might think.
OpenFOAM® – The Open Source Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) Toolbox –
sorttable: Make all your tables sortable – A small javascript that will make tables sortable within your browser.
Python Encryption Examples Source Code –
Screeny – A free movie screen capture utility.

Bookmarks for August 14th through September 9th

Stephen Skory — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 15:22:48 +0000

These are my links for August 14th through September 9th:

sorttable: Make all your tables sortable – A small javascript that will make tables sortable within your browser.
Python Encryption Examples Source Code –
Screeny – A free movie screen capture utility.
Globus Online | Reliable File Transfer. No IT Required. – Transfer files quickly between HPC machines.
iFredrik.com – Developer Website – Various freeware for Mac OS X, including Lion Tweaks, which consolidates settings to undo many of the changes introduced by Lion that didn't need changing.

Bookmarks for June 13th through August 12th

Stephen Skory — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 16:31:26 +0000

These are my links for June 13th through August 12th:

Turntable – An online music service with user-created radio stations.
Tools – R for Mac OS X – developer’s page – GNU Fortan for Xcode – GNU tools for Mac OS X
Ghostery – A browser plugin that allows you to block services that track your web browsing history
MacPorts Python installation on Mac – 10 easy steps – May be useful someday…
Flash Video Downloader " Downloads flash video from Google … – Download the flash video from youtube (or similar) sites.
Adapter – Free Image and Video Converter for Mac and PC – A free multi-format media converter.
X Lossless Decoder: Lossless audio decoder for Mac OS X – Split flac and wav files into multiple tracks using a cue file.
Indent – GNU Project – Free Software Foundation – A program to clean up C files to make them more readable.
gps4cam – the geotag app for iPhone. | The app that brings geotagging to every camera! – A clever app for geotagging photos from a camera that lacks a GPS unit. I bought this, and it works well.

Bookmarks for May 10th through June 8th

Stephen Skory — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 02:41:55 +0000

These are my links for May 10th through June 8th:

iTerm2 – Mac OS Terminal Replacement –
Data Primitives – OpenStreetMap Wiki – How the Open Street Map project's XML works. (Ugh, XML.)
Reddit Enhancement Suite – Customize your reddit experience – for Firefox, Safari, Opera (Greasemonkey Userscripts) and Chrome (native extension) –
Open source anti-theft solution for Mac, PCs & Phones – Prey – Track stolen computers and phones for free (iPhone soon, they say).
National Jukebox LOC.gov – A collection of old music from the Library of Congress.

Bookmarks for May 3rd through May 8th

Stephen Skory — Mon, 09 May 2011 04:00:18 +0000

These are my links for May 3rd through May 8th:

500 Internal Server Error – 500 Internal Server Error
500 Internal Server Error – 500 Internal Server Error
500 Internal Server Error – 500 Internal Server Error
Secret Geometry: Cathode – A gag terminal for Mac OS X.
iTerm2: The successor to the terminal on OSX – An alternative terminal for Mac OS X

Bookmarks for April 28th from 10:11 to 10:27

Stephen Skory — Sun, 01 May 2011 01:59:06 +0000

These are my links for April 28th from 10:11 to 10:27:

iSub Music Streamer | A Subsonic Client for iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch – An iPhone app for playing music off of subsonic servers.
ASCII Generator –
put.io | online storage re-imagined – Download tool for Bittorrent, HTTP, FTP.
Web Performance Best Practices – How to make your web page load faster.
atMonitor – A free mac os x system monitor.
hgpaste – A mercurial extension that makes pasting diffs to a pastebin easy.
Google Chrome – Download the 32-bit development deb of Chrome for ubuntu.
360 Panorama Stitching Software – Panomonkey – A website that will stitch together images to make a 360 degree panorama. Creation is free, but download is not.
QuickLaTeX – A LaTeX plugin for WordPress.
Full Text RSS Feed // Get the whole feed and nothing but the feed –
Supercharge the Ubuntu MOTD – How to set up a custom Message of the Day in Ubuntu.
reStructuredText Directives –
AppArmor – How to set up AppArmor on Ubuntu 10.10.
Notify 2.1 – An awesome email notifier for Mac OS X … – A menu bar notifier for email accounts.

Bookmarks for November 23rd through December 24th

Stephen Skory — Sat, 25 Dec 2010 05:00:52 +0000

These are my links for November 23rd through December 24th:

500 Internal Server Error – 500 Internal Server Error
500 Internal Server Error – 500 Internal Server Error
500 Internal Server Error – 500 Internal Server Error
Sidestep | Chetan Surpur – Automatically opens a SOCKS5 proxy to a server over SSH when using an unprotected wireless connection.
IOGraphica — MousePath’s new home – Makes an image showing where your cursor goes on your screen.

Bookmarks for September 29th through October 27th

Stephen Skory — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 23:03:07 +0000

These are my links for September 29th through October 27th:

tunnelblick – Project Hosting on Google Code – A Mac OS X OpenVPN client
Configuring OpenVPN on Ubuntu 8.04 LTS – Enter mkdir -p /dev/netEnter mknod /dev/net/tun c 10 200Enter chmod 600 /dev/net/tunEnter cat /dev/net/tun to test whether the TUN/TAP device is available:If you receive the message cat: /dev/net/tun: File descriptor in bad state your TUN/TAP device is ready for useIf you receive the message cat: /dev/net/tun: No such device the TUN/TAP device was not successfully created.
500 Internal Server Error – 500 Internal Server Error
500 Internal Server Error – 500 Internal Server Error
Gigagalaxy Zoom – A zoomable, panable image of our galaxy.

Bookmarks for September 9th through September 24th

Stephen Skory — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 04:06:46 +0000

These are my links for September 9th through September 24th:

Mixmaster BPM Calculato – Free BPM calculator that saves the results to the ID3 tag.
500 Internal Server Error – 500 Internal Server Error
500 Internal Server Error – 500 Internal Server Error
join.me – Free Screen Sharing – Free browser-based screen sharing.
500 Internal Server Error – 500 Internal Server Error

Bookmarks for August 7th through September 1st

Stephen Skory — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 10:00:16 +0000

These are my links for August 7th through September 1st:

500 Internal Server Error – 500 Internal Server Error
500 Internal Server Error – 500 Internal Server Error
WizardRSS | Full Text RSS Feeds – Convert truncated RSS feeds into full feeds, such as those from the New York Times.
500 Internal Server Error – 500 Internal Server Error
autojump – Builds a database of the directories you commonly work in which makes 'cd'ing into them faster.

Bookmarks for July 6th through August 4th

Stephen Skory — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 02:50:16 +0000

These are my links for July 6th through August 4th:

QR Decoder Online – Decode a QR image.
Spocalc, by Damon Rinard. A free Excel spoke length calculator. –
Webgraph /// Facebook Blocker Extension for Safari and Chrome – This blocks Facebook buttons on non-Facebook sites.
Throttling Bandwidth On A Mac | Mac Tricks And Tips –
RTMPDump – Save Flash video streams to disk.

Bookmarks for May 16th through June 28th

Stephen Skory — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 22:04:14 +0000

These are my links for May 16th through June 28th:

CharlesSoft – Pacifist – A handy decompression and Mac-package inspection and extraction tool.
C++ Reference [C++ Reference] –
How to Write a Spelling Corrector – Peter Norvig's 21 line Python spell checker.
Google Chart Tools – Google Code – The homepage for Google Charts, which can make a variety of plots with a properly formatted URL.
namebench – Project Hosting on Google Code – This utility will attempt to choose the DNS servers most optimal for your computer, which speeds up the internet browsing experience.

Bookmarks for March 18th through May 7th

Stephen Skory — Fri, 07 May 2010 13:08:03 +0000

These are my links for March 18th through May 7th:

LaTeX Lab – Welcome – Edit & compile LaTeX documents using Google Docs.
pulpTunes – The Web Server for iTunes –
git-osx-installer – Project Hosting on Google Code –
Dowser – AMinus projects – Trac – A Web-based Python memory debugger that uses the CherryPy framework.

# memdebug.py

import cherrypy

import dowser

def start(port):

cherrypy.tree.mount(dowser.Root())

cherrypy.config.update({

'environment': 'embedded',

'server.socket_port': port

})

cherrypy.server.quickstart()

cherrypy.engine.start(blocking=False)
Hg Init: a Mercurial tutorial by Joel Spolsky – Yet another mercurial tutorial… fairly wordy but has fun pictures.

Bookmarks for February 2nd through March 9th

Stephen Skory — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:03:12 +0000

These are my links for February 2nd through March 9th:

Data Compression Explained –
Customizing your shell prompt – For zsh and tcsh.
Gamma error in picture scaling – How to scale images correctly.
canviz – Display graphviz files in a web browser.
Waveboard – Google Wave Client for iPhone and Mac – Get a notification when there is a new message on Google Wave.

Bookmarks for January 17th through January 31st

Stephen Skory — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 05:07:18 +0000

These are my links for January 17th through January 31st:

Record and Reverie " Blog Archive " The Correct Way to Enable AC3 … – How to allow AC3 passthrough audio on a mac using Perian.
Fossil: Fossil Home Page – Yet another distributed version control system, but this one has some interesting features (web interface built-in in particular) and uses a SQLite database on the back end.
Overview — Numpy and Scipy Documentation –
The Infosphere, the Futurama Wiki – I can't believe I didn't know about this until know.
Chicago Journals – The Astrophysical Journal – Information for Authors – Guidelines on how to format an article for submission

Bookmarks for December 23rd through January 12th

Stephen Skory — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 22:07:41 +0000

These are my links for December 23rd through January 12th:

Astrophysical Journal Subject Headings, Astrophysical Journal Subject Headings –
CUBA: A Package for Computing the UV/X-ray Background Evolution – Unfortunately, the files are not downloadable, but this appears to be what I need.
Azureus, now called Vuze : Java BitTorrent client – Latest CVS Snapshot – The files needed to run Azureus from the command line.
Console UI – AzureusWiki – How to run Azureus on the command line.
bitbucket.org – Free and premium mercurial hosting. Has some interesting features.

Bookmarks for December 17th through December 22nd

Stephen Skory — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 01:01:08 +0000

These are my links for December 17th through December 22nd:

Berkeley Unified Parallel C (UPC) Project – The homepage for UPC.
ClickToFlash – Block flash in Safari.
500 Internal Server Error – 500 Internal Server Error
Example vimrc – Vim Tips Wiki – An example .vimrc file.
Compression Ratings – Compression Benchmark – A whole site dedicated to comparing various compression packages.

Bookmarks for December 7th through December 10th

Stephen Skory — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 21:06:24 +0000

These are my links for December 7th through December 10th:

Root Wireless – CNET Reviews – High-quality maps showing the quality of coverage for the major American cell phone carriers. No maps in SD yet.
Lala – Save and stream your music collection online, for free, with an iTunes-like interface (for better or worse). Someday they may have a business model, but for now it's free.
Glims for Safari | www.MacHangout.com – Offers a wide suite of enhancements for Mac OS X Safari.
Pimp My Safari: plugins – A good list of plugins for Safari.
Safari AdBlock: block ads in Safari – Uses the same list as AdBlock plus for Firefox.

Bookmarks for November 6th through November 19th

Stephen Skory — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:00:50 +0000

These are my links for November 6th through November 19th:

Plus 3 Network – Raise funds for charity by logging athletic activities.
PasteExtension – Mercurial – A mercurial extension that pastes the result of 'hg diff' to a pastebin of your choice.
500 Internal Server Error – 500 Internal Server Error
MyP2P.eu :: Free Live Sports on your PC, Live Football, MLB, NBA, NHL and more… – I haven't actually tried this yet, but it seems promising.
Readability – An Arc90 Lab Experiment – A bookmarklet that turns any webpage into a simple book-like page free of distracting clutter.

Bookmarks for October 12th through November 3rd

Stephen Skory — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:00:34 +0000

These are my links for October 12th through November 3rd:

AnnualCreditReport – The only official, free credit reporting site. The rest are all lies!
About Dictionary Cleaner | Two AM Software – A control panel that allows you to see and edit your custom spelling dictionary in Mac OS X.
500 Internal Server Error – 500 Internal Server Error
Main Page – Fail2ban – Blocks IP addresses that attempt and fail too many times to log into a server.
RANDOM.ORG – String Generator –

Bookmarks for September 4th through September 21st

Stephen Skory — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:05:01 +0000

These are my links for September 4th through September 21st:

Message Passing Interface (MPI) – Useful for general reference, too.
Dive Into Python 3 – The popular Python book updated for version 3, which I may use someday.
pixelsnap – Project Hosting on Google Code – A plug-in for Inkscape that automatically snaps graphics to the pixel mesh, so when the image is exported to a non-vector graphic format, the lines don't become fuzzy.
pool.ntp.org: the internet cluster of ntp servers –
U.C. Alumni Club of San Diego County –

Bookmarks for August 15th through September 3rd

Stephen Skory — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 21:48:24 +0000

These are my links for August 15th through September 3rd:

Triton Ganglia Cluster Report – Keep tabs on how people are using Triton.
Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard: Compatibility –
pdfpirate.net – free, online and no limits pdf restriction remover –
Snow Leopard Compatibility: Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard Compatibility List –
Python: module pexpect – A python module to do expect-like operations.