Nicehacks

xautomation

Mon, 31 Dec 2007 14:48:00 GMT

xautomation allows you to control X from the command line. "The control interface allows mouse movement, clicking, button up/down, key up/down, etc, and uses the XTest extension so you don't have the annoying problems that xse has when apps ignore sent events. The visgrep program find images inside of images and reports the coordinates, allowing programs to find buttons, etc, on the screen to click on."
Fascinating. Gotta try this one.

Link: http://www.hoopajoo.net/projects/xautomation.html

Wormhole2

Mon, 17 Dec 2007 17:05:00 GMT

Wormhole2 is a VST which transmits audio over a network. It's cross-platform so you can transmit audio from a PC to a Mac.
It requires Steinberg's VSTSDK, which is not Open Source.

Link: http://code.google.com/p/wormhole2/

OfflineIMAP

Mon, 29 Jan 2007 17:00:00 GMT

OfflineIMAP allows you to synchronize IMAP accounts on different computers. For instance, you can delete a message on your home computer, and it will appear deleted on your work computer as well. OfflineIMAP is also useful if you want to use a mail reader that does not have IMAP support, has poor IMAP support, or does not provide disconnected operation.
Killer feature for me is it synchronizes an IMAP account to a local Maildir.

Link: http://software.complete.org/offlineimap

EthernetMIDI

Thu, 23 Nov 2006 23:02:00 GMT

EthernetMIDI is a free, open source (GPL license) application that allows forwarding MIDI data between 2 PCs via network. For now it runs only on Windows, but soon it will run on OSX and Linux too.

Link: http://www.linuxsampler.org/ethernetmidi/

NoMachine NX

Wed, 04 Oct 2006 16:58:00 GMT

NoMachine NX is a remarkably fast VNC/Windows Terminal Server server and client. It has excellent performance on slow lines. It also transmits audio (like system sounds and MP3s).

Link: http://www.nomachine.com/

rdup

Wed, 04 Oct 2006 16:01:00 GMT

rdup is a platform for backups. It provides a list of files to backup and the necessary mechanisms to process them. It delegates the encryption, compression, transfer and packaging to other utilities in a true Unix-way.

Link: http://miek.nl/projects/rdup/

Gallina

Fri, 15 Sep 2006 20:06:00 GMT

Gallina is a proof-of-concept weblog which uses GMail as a publishing platform. Mail messages appear as entries.
Submitted by Antonio Ognio.

Link: http://ion.gluch.org.mx/files/Hacks/gallina/

mytop

Thu, 14 Sep 2006 22:16:00 GMT

mytop is 'top' clone for MySQL.
See also mtop.

Link: http://jeremy.zawodny.com/mysql/mytop/

Noble Ape Simulation

Thu, 14 Sep 2006 07:33:00 GMT

Noble Ape is a fascinating multiplatform project which simulates a detailed biological environment (a tropical island) and a cognitive simulation of creatures called Noble Apes, which have vision, hear, desires and fears.

Link: http://www.nobleape.com/sim/

xvkbd

Mon, 11 Sep 2006 18:48:00 GMT

xvkbd is a graphical keyboard which lets you type characters by clicking on the virtual keys and has some clever "Quick Modifiers" which allows you to do keystrokes like "Shift+Ctrl+A" by clicking and moving the pointer out of the key.

Link: http://homepage3.nifty.com/tsato/xvkbd/