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Java [top]

  • iwebapp is a collection of Java/Javascript apps for controlling laptops with IPhones.
  • ping is a real-time graph of ping stats.
  • record records and merges GPS coordinates into images.
  • clip controls your clipboard wirelessly.
  • connectn is a connect 4 game with potatoes.
  • mouseremote controls Pandora/iTunes with your mouse like iphone headphones.
  • timelapse takes time lapse pics + shows them by tilting your macbook w/ AMS.
  • explain is a program to ubiquitously view the relevant info for media files.
  • fakeisight periodically changes your IM image + message from various places.
  • pandora+lastfm adds tracks you up in pandora to your last.fm account.
  • jloogle is a language for searching Java code using types, methods, names, etc.
  • pandoraboy is a little Java for controlling pandora via pandoraboy.
  • limespotapi is a Java interface to limespot.
  • ipodfork extends rssipod syncs your iPod with pitchfork's forkcast.
  • rssipod is a Java tool to pull your bloglines RSS feeds to your iPod.
  • caltunes is a Java tool to show the shows for your iTunes bands + exports to iCal.
  • tables is a Java tool to import loose text into tables and analyze it.
  • mac alarm is Java alarm system for powerbooks based on its accelerometers.
  • amsjava is a tiny Java package to control things by tilting your powerbook.
  • darthdodge is a Java powerbook game where darthtater chases spudtroopers.
  • tiltunes is a Java tool to control another computer's iTunes by tilting your mac.
  • darthacc is some Java to move Darth Tater using mac accelerometers.
  • asciiart is some Java to generate ascii art from images: e.g spud + darth.
  • keyboard is Java to copy chars to the clipboard in case your keyboard dies.
  • cup2html is a Java tool to convert javacup grammars to html.
  • darthtunes is a Java Darth Tater itunes controller.
  • proteinsound is a Java tool to play protein sequences as songs.
  • filkr is a Java tool to view flickr accounts in a file-system-like manner.
  • flickluster is a Java tool to view your flickr account as a graph.
  • imrandom is Java to send (sort of) random messages to (sort of) random people.
  • copytoclipboard is Java to copy large amounts of data to the clipboard.

J2ME [top]

Ruby [top]

  • directions gives driving directions in text form.
  • camelcase2underscores converts camel-cased code to underscore-delimited code from files, strings, and URLs.
  • parsing is a gem to ease the syntax for parsing tasks (more).
  • search uses your search plugins to make open search queries easyier (more).
  • unpack generically unpacks files--e.g. tarballs, zips, ext the same way.
  • sendposition periodically sends your geo location to help locate it if stolen.
  • fexpr is floating version of expr usually in /bin.
  • insertcopyright inserts a copyright string into any type of source file.
  • tweet is a command line twitter client; I'm sure it already exists (more).
  • facebookcontacts uses facebook profile images for AddressBook images (more).
  • weather is a quick a dirty way to view the forecast. e.g..
  • rubydoc queries core methods; e.g. rubydoc IO foreach → this.
    • webster are some scripts to access merriam-webster.com from the command line.
  • accesses (e.g.) creates a graph of the hits to a website over a period of time.
  • google_reader.rb is a Ruby client for Google Reader.
  • flashcards generates flashcards for learning a new language for ipods.
  • generate generates a boilerplate code for Ruby command line apps.
  • toruby generates a Ruby class for processing the forms on a given website.
  • create_bookmarklet makes bookmarkleting easier.
  • nflschedules is some Ruby to create ICS (i.e. iCal) schedules for the NFL.
  • nytimes digest is some Ruby to send you a digest of the New York Times.
  • addressbook2html is some Ruby for exporting your Address Book to HTML.
  • musicgrep is some Ruby for 'grepping' over your music library for lyrics.
  • seemail is some Ruby and Perl to build a stacked graph of your email usage.
  • today is some Ruby to print ICS feeds as text.
  • loogle is a Ruby command line version of google.
  • google_cache is some Ruby to search the google cache.
  • search is some Ruby to search your opensearch engines.
  • download is some Ruby to grab files from a URL according to regular expressions.
  • read is some Ruby to show and open RSS feeds in text format.
  • storerss is some Ruby to filter out LimeWire Store RSS feeds by iTunes libraries.
  • stock.rb is a little Ruby command line stock-quote-getter (bored at lunch).
  • pollstar.rb is some Ruby to show pollstar listings for artists in your itunes library.
  • logfiles.rb is some Ruby to create stats from Apache log files.

PHP + sites [top]

  • setall sets various statuses (twitter, facebook...) via email.
  • mreddit is reddit looking like mobile digg.
  • twitterrss is an RSS feed for any twitter account.
  • twitterfriends shows friends common with your friends or between any users.
  • alpha is a page to create anonymous message from flickr image letters.
  • freenyc plots freenyc.net events on a google map.
  • inspectorgadget is a little mail system with self-destructing messages.
  • potatunes is a page to control my itunes over the interwebs.
  • sharethispost is a social network (currently in GM) imposed over craigslist.
  • floto is my PHP photo blogging stuff (i.e. the picture to the right).
  • s & m is a PHP system for browsing your mail on a phone.
  • flickerizer is a site to show your flickr/myspace/del.icio.us accounts as a tree.
  • linktree is a site to view a webpage links in a tree-like manner.
  • gcalc is a site with a google calculator with a buffer.
  • bandlines is a site to collect the schedules of your favorite bands (defunct).
  • yourtube is site to show a jukebox of youtube videos based on your iTunes library.
  • geo is a site to plot multiple geo rss feeds on a single map.
  • kathymaps is a site to annotate google maps (defunct).
  • webarchive is a site to make slide shows from the wayback machine.
  • grankings is a site to find the google-rank of all the keywords in a web page.
  • concertdates is a site to import a city's show dates into ical or other formats.
  • googles is a site to to make a google search returning any number of results.
  • dloogle is a site to make a search categorized according to del.icio.us.
  • translate is a site to show different translations of a word sorted.

Perl [top]

  • mailrecord is some Perl to record when people read mail messages.
  • mail is some Perl to analyze your mail stats.

Google maps mashups (maps.google.com) [top]

Bookmarklets [top]

  • newepisodes shows only new episodes for fancast (more).
  • measure allows you to easily inspect the position of elements and between elements.
  • imageo geocodes images.
  • imageo adjusts google map times for slower walkers.
  • remove comments hides other peoples' facebook comments.
  • searchlinks searches the URLs of a page's links (code, more).
  • usecurrentlocation geocodes your google maps experience.
  • amazon downloads downloads all tracks on an amazon download page, more...
  • roles perform common actions across all sites -- e.g. log in/out, sign up, ...
  • sourcelines counts the source code lines of various languages.
  • igdirections allows you google-map street addresses on your iPhone.
  • notes annotates webpages then creates a url (or tinyurl) of the annotated page.
  • diggmenu creates a menu at the top of digg, so you don't have to scroll down.
  • redditlet is some javascript for writing reddit bookmarklets.
  • bubbleup groups all facebook friends together at the end of the friend list.
  • password lets you have a unique password for every site and only remember one.
  • sortle will sort Google image search results by area, width, or height.
  • usernamecheck transforms all available links to sign up on usernamecheck.com
  • createevent lets you add the current page as a google calendar event.
  • redditmenu lets you view your reddit articles more nicely.
  • jstranslate translates selected text into various langauges.
  • searchbox is a quick way to search a webpage.
  • tinyurl mails tinyurled links.
  • elfurl sends elfurled links by email easily.
  • gmaptopoi converts a google map into a TomTom POI database.

Grouphug (grouphug.us) [top]

Greasemonkey scripts ( [top] greasemonkey.mozdev.org)

  • noarefriends.user.js filters out annoying facebook status(more.
  • bloglines lets you navigate the articles of a feed with the keyboard (more.
  • newtab open links in new tabs when you double click them.
  • scrollundo keeps a history of scroll positions so you can 'undo' and 'redo' scrolls.
  • upanddownpage lets you use one hand for page up and page down (more).
  • facebookmore loads older posts, so you don't have to click the link at the bottom.
  • facebookpager adds a paginator to the bottom of a facebook photo page.
  • redditcomments scrolls through reddit comments inline, under the posts.
  • redditmore asynchronously loads next pages, so you don't have to click.
  • nytimesbar removes that stupid bar from the top of nytimes.com.
  • gmailcal integrates your google calendar with gmail.
  • reddittitles carries reddit titles over to context-free links -- e.g from imgur.com.
  • googlist carries a history-menu of your google searches.
  • showemails shows craigslist contact info without viewing the posting.
  • twittertime shows actual twitter post times instead of abouts.
  • twitterhover shows full twitter user information in popups.
  • flickrgeo adds google maps to flickr photo pages.
  • customreddit excludes undesired domains from reddit results.
  • mycraigslist lets you save and manage a list of craigslist postings.
  • redditcolor colorizes reddit articles according to score.
  • weather forwards weather.com to your local zipcode.
  • redditpreview shows image previews under the image entries.
  • fullimage provides direct links to full images on google image searches.
  • nodiggbar removes the digg bar from web pages.
  • select selects all, selects none, or toggles all the checkboxes on a page.
  • searchlinks highlights all links matching a given regular expression.
  • craigtrack highlights craigslist listings to which you've already mailed.
  • facebooklogin logs you into facebook if you have saved your login info.
  • meetoogle searches meetup.com whenever you search the goog.
  • preview collects selected links into a left pane for fast previewing.
  • popimage opens image links in modal dialogs rather than new windows.
  • annotate allows you to annotate web pages with message boxes.
  • usernamechecked allows you to select the sites to check with usernamecheck.com.
  • twominutewarnings emails you at certain parts of sporting events.
  • craigpreview adds previews to craigslist links when hovering over them.
  • craigmails adds quick links (such as mail) to craigslist postings.
  • favicons shows the favicons of sites on reddit.
  • skipads skips ads in New York Times articles.
  • scrollagain automatically scrolls to a givenposition on page loads.
  • overheardinnewyork IMs posts directly from overheardinnewyork.com.
  • bloglinesfilter will filter out bloglines posts with 0 articles.
  • redditfilter will filter out reddit articles you don't want to read.
  • craigmail will mail multiple people on craigslist.
  • createyourownsalad tallies the price of your seamlessweb salad.
  • seamlessweb shows inlined descriptions of items for seamlessweb.
  • gwiki inserts google links for wikipedia entries without articles.
  • gzoom lets you easily zoom beyond the normal google map limits.
  • imagereddit let you preview reddit articles that are just images.
  • tability allows you to view any HTML table as a graph or CSV.
  • noteit adds notes to any webpage to view whenever you visit that page.
  • youtubed displays how many times you've viewed a YouTube video.
  • craigsort sorts craigslist listings by price.
  • gtaxi estimates the cab fare of google map routes in NYC.
  • sortit sorts reddit articles by points/date/comments.
  • openall opens all (or some) reddits articles in new tabs.
  • diggcloud creates clouds of digg articles proportional to points.
  • reddittags creates clouds of reddit articles proportional to points.
  • missingimages finds dead links in google images.
  • imagepreview: preview images linked to a page.
  • craigslistinline displays a preview of craigslist listings' images.
  • changeimage changes an image to another image by searching flickr.
  • redditinline opens any link inline rather than in new windows.

IPhone stuff [top]

  • resumep3 resumes a track from itunes to your iphone without manually seeking.
  • findme is a page to send your location to another iphone.
  • multitimer is a timer with up to 5 soft alarms that vibrate but don't stop timing.
  • iphonealarm is an alarm system for your iPhone; similar to macalarm.
  • directionpointer involves the accelerometer and darth tater right now.
  • gethuman searches gethuman.com when calling to tell you how to get a human.
  • shopvale is an iphone shopping catalog for the designers, Vale Jewelry.
  • tippstr qualitatively calculates tips by rating aspects of service.

Google gadgets [top]

  • tuxquote is a Google Gadget for finding stock quotes.
  • polltrooper is a Google Gadget showing concert dates for an artist or city via spud.

Firefox addons (addons.mozilla.org) [top]

  • gdirections is a Firefox add-on to to select an address and google-map it.
  • urlu.ms helps share links.
  • imageofirefox allows you to click an image and geocode it.
  • searchanother allows you to carry over you search from one page to another.
  • closethesearchbox adds the Control+F shortcut to close the finder box on the bottom left.

Chrome extensions (chrome.google.com/extension) [top]

  • synonyms allows you to quickly look up and replace selected words with synonyms.
  • chromelines is a bloglines notifier.
  • chromedirections allows you to select an address and google-map it.

Dashboard widgets (www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard) [top]

Mac stuff [top]

Python stuff [top]

  • query opens and inputs the arguments into the first text field of a page (more).

Facebook stuff [top]

  • fbgrowl is growl integration for facebook chat.
  • facebookstats is a portal to view some stats on your facebook contacts (e.g.).
  • facebookfriends shows the number/% of your friends in common with your others'.

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