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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.

Bookmarks for July 14th through August 13th

Stephen Skory — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 15:01:10 +0000

These are my links for July 14th through August 13th:

Parallel MPI BZIP2 (MPIBZIP2) –
Parallel BZIP2 (PBZIP2) –
Chapter 8. Managing releases and branchy development –
National Center for Computational Sciences » BBCP – Helpful bbcp examples.
Detexify LaTeX handwritten symbol recognition – Draw in a box, and it returns the LaTeX command for that symbol.

Bookmarks for June 28th through July 9th

Stephen Skory — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 20:00:54 +0000

These are my links for June 28th through July 9th:

HG QuickRef v1.0 – Yet another quickref for mercurial, but this one has gaudy colors!
Intrinsic functions in Fortran 90 –
KDTREE – A Fortran & C++ (using Boost) kD tree implementation.
Forthon – Build Fortran code into Python modules, like f2py.
California ISO: System Status – See the current energy demand for California.

Bookmarks for May 27th through June 17th

Stephen Skory — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 18:00:30 +0000

These are my links for May 27th through June 17th:

GALAXEV: Bruzual & Charlot (2003) – Bruzual & Charlot SED code page.
Murky – A Mercurial GUI for Mac OS X.
Page Speed Home – Benchmark webpages. Kind of like Yahoo!'s YSlow.
BibDesk – Organize your bibtex references.
North Korean Economy Watch » North Korea Uncovered – (Google Earth) – A Google Earth KMZ file of North Korean points of interest.

Bookmarks for April 27th through May 25th

Stephen Skory — Tue, 26 May 2009 04:00:40 +0000

These are my links for April 27th through May 25th:

Skim | Home – Annotate PDFs with text and symbols.
kD-Tree kNN in python ‎(Mike’s Coderama)‎ – A python kd-tree implementation.
YooouuuTuuube – Make any youtube video into trippy art!
Simplify Media – Connect Your Music – Share music across the internet. Interesting, one of several approaches to this problem.
Irradiated Software – SizeUp – Finer control over window sizes in Mac OS X. Donationware.

Bookmarks for April 14th through April 20th

Stephen Skory — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 18:00:07 +0000

These are my links for April 14th through April 20th:

Google Torrent Search – Search for bit torrents using Google.
What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic – Stuff I should know better.
textext – A LaTeX plugin for Inkscape.
Inkscape. Draw Freely. – A free vector-based graphics editor.
ucsd-thesis – Google Code – a UCSD Thesis LaTeX template.

Bookmarks for March 15th through March 31st

Stephen Skory — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 21:04:00 +0000

These are my links for March 15th through March 31st:

HostMonk – Compare hosting packages – Dedicated hosting, VPS hosting, Shared hosting – Interesting and accurate (from a quick cursory inspection).
GvGen | freshmeat.net – Another python to graphviz class.
yapgvb – Google Code – Yet Another Python Graphviz Binding which helps make graphviz files in python.
mpmath – Google Code – Precision mathematical functions in python
High-Res NASA TV Stream – higher quality than on the nasa.gov site.

Bookmarks for February 20th through March 15th

Stephen Skory — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 20:05:53 +0000

These are my links for February 20th through March 15th:

GrandPerspective – A visualization of hard drive usage on the mac.
GeekTool – put various system logs or graphs on the desktop.
FOF – A simple KDtree-based friends-of-friends halo finding code.
peak-o-mat – A python-based curve fitting package.
KeePass Password Safe – An open source encrypted password database program.

Bookmarks for February 11th through February 17th

Stephen Skory — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 04:00:09 +0000

These are my links for February 11th through February 17th:

inky’s see() – An upgraded dir() function in python, called see(). Interesting.
instantwatcher.com – Movies and TV to Watch Instantly on Netflix – An external third-party interface to the Netflix streaming library with additional features over the Netflix interface.
Transform an iTunes Library or Playlist into a Web Page – Ugly and heavyweight, but easy and free.
10 Privacy Settings Every Facebook User Should Know – I'm not a big facebook person, but I do have an account.
Radiology Art – images made of common objects in a CAT scan machine. Cool!

Bookmarks for February 2nd through February 9th

Stephen Skory — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 16:17:53 +0000

These are my links for February 2nd through February 8th:

Media Convert - convert between a wide variety of media formats.
Max from sbooth.org - A high-quality audio CD ripper.
Tuppis - Lingon by Peter Borg - inspect and edit your launchd processes.
TV Fool - Home - highly technical TV transmitter and antenna information.

Bookmarks for January 26th through February 2nd

Stephen Skory — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 21:05:16 +0000

These are my links for January 26th through February 2nd:

A Unix Utility You Should Know About: Pipe Viewer - create progress bars for common unix commands.
Dockland Software - SpaceSuit - Have a different background for each desktop when using spaces in Mac OS X.
M-Lab | Welcome to Measurement Lab - Test to see if your ISP is throttling your connection.
Tapping Your Inner Freeloader: 11 Tried and True Tips to Get Things Free -
YouTube HQ + 720p - A greasemonkey script that automatically chooses the highest quality youtube video version available.

Bookmarks for January 21st through January 24th

Stephen Skory — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 05:04:05 +0000

These are my links for January 21st through January 24th:

T3CH XBMC BINARY RELEASES - SVN builds of the XBox Media Center
GigaPan - super high resolution panorama tools and image hosting.
Legal Rights of Photographers (pdf) - Know your rights when you take photos in public places, including private buildings the public enters, like malls.
How I Made a 1,474-Megapixel Photo During President Obama’s Inaugural Address - With a link to a full-screen viewer of the image.
PolitiFact | The Obameter: Tracking Barack Obama's Campaign Promises - See how well Obama's campaign promises turn out.

Bookmarks for January 8th through January 16th

Stephen Skory — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 22:02:36 +0000

These are my links for January 8th through January 16th:

Vertor – A site that verifies the validity of the content of torrents, looking for passwords, viruses and corruption.
Optimize your Apache VPS for WordPress – I've seen other posts like this, but this is a nice one, too.
Second Act Refurbished HDTV, Closeout HDTV, Overstock HDTV, Refurbished Electronics –
TACC User Portal – Where to submit problem tickets for TACC (Ranger). I am using this with more frequency, these days…
Red Hat Magazine | A guide to GNU Screen – screen is a useful tool that I should use more often.