Mon: Jan 12, 2015

Blue Apron. Interesting idea - they send you the box of ingredients and a recipe, you assemble and tell everyone you cooked.     #>

PostgreSql for Debian. Started using it on one of my boxes just to try something new and get some experience. So far so good.     #>

Tribler torrent downloads, uses onion routing (like TOR) to hide your privacy. I do like their disclaimer that you still aren't safe against governments tracking your actions.     #>

DavMail Exchange Gateway, translates Microsoft Exchange into actual Internet standards (POP/IMAP/SMTP/Caldav/Carddav/LDAP).     #>

Some free icon sets I've come across, saved for later reference.

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µBlock - An efficient blocker for Chromium-based browsers. Like Adblock+ but for Chrome (and Chromium).     #>

Introducing Lantern: One Device = Free Data Forever. This is a really cool idea.

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Baikal CalDAV and CardDAV server. I'm already pretty invested in Owncloud but if I move away from that I'd definitely consider Baikal. Anything to not have to use Google for contacts and calendar.     #>

Raccoon - A google play desktop client. Very handy if you have an Android phone or tablet without official Google Play support. Just download to your desktop and install (or pull backups of apps from Play...)     #>

Using HAProxy to make SSH and SSL available on the same port. That is a nifty trick and will let you past some firewalls (unless they are doing packet inspection for traffic types...)     #>

Autoplaying anything is a terrible decision, doubly so for video. No kidding, trying to go through my YouTube subscriptions is an exercise in frustration - I just open everything new in a new tab which causes chaos in my speakers.     #>

YouTube Rewind: Turn Down for 2014. Pretty proud of myself for recognizing 11 of the people/groups in that.     #>

Linux Email Support Tips - Sendmail. I found it useful...     #>

WallApp lets you see how a photo of yours would look on a living room wall. They also have an option to upload a photo of your own wall so you can place it like that, which is very cool.     #>

7 Principles of Rich Web Applications. Excellent advise for anyone doing web development work.     #>

pass - the standard unix password manager, and a version for Windows: pass.bat. In case you like the old school command line versions of things and don't want to invest in LastPass for password management.     #>

Guerrilla guide to CNC machining, mold making, and resin casting. That is a fantastic resource, I'd love to have a desktop CNC mill (though much like a 3D printer I don't yet know what I'd do with it...)     #>

Pound - Reverse Proxy and Load Balancer. Potentially very handy for some of my work things.     #>

The Optimum Digital Exposure. Interesting and a good lead-in to his OneZone book ($20 paper copy, $10 PDF.)     #>

Three Ingredient Recipes. There's some great stuff in there.     #>

Babun windows shell, uses an integrated Cygwin environment so you don't have to deal with installing Cygwin (which also requires admin rights.) Very handy if you are stuck on Windows and could use some good Unixy tools (curl, python, perl, etc.)     #>

Glasswire Firewall - see what's trying to send data where in Windows. Handy if you think you have a virus or are leaking data in some other way.     #>

Cert Alert. Handy if you run websites - it will monitor your SSL certificate expirations and email you when they are about to expire.     #>

K2pdfopt, converts PDFs into ebook files. Includes OCR so and claims it can even re-flows scanned PDF files into something that works on smaller screens.     #>

Tutorial: Easily Focus-Stack Using Photoshop. Focus-stacking lets you increase your depth of field, which is especially good for macro photos.     #>

Flock, Private Contact and Calendar Cloud Sync. If I wasn't using a private instance of Owncloud already I'd be all over this.     #>

That's interesting, turns out my local city council puts up their meeting videos online: Lakewood City Council Videos. Now I can watch them ignore constituents from the comfort of my own home!     #>

Two methods for changing the font size in the TTY terminal in Linux (for some reason sometimes during an upgrade mine goes to a huge font size making my 28" monitor look like crap.

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