Awesome Things I've Discovered Lately

Not necessarily new, but stuff I didn’t know about.

BlueProximity: On *nix systems, this will lock or unlock your pc based on your cell phone’s bluetooth signal strength. Get up and go to lunch, and it’ll be locked before you’re out the door. Come back, and it’s up and ready by the time you sit down at your desk.

Screen: Start up a shell session unattached to the screen. Start up irssi in a screen session, and it will survive an xserver restart. Use screen -x to have a multi-user session (IE, 2 machines in different rooms can monitor the same log file or IRC session)

Irssi: Incredible command-line IRC client. Use it. ’nuff said.

Pistachios: These things rock. I can’t believe I never had them before this week. Somebody pinch me.

Synergy: Share your mouse and keyboard between two machines over the network. Multi-platform and copies your clipboard, too. They’re working on copying more complex data (such as whole files), but probably a long way off.

PSP: Seriously. I haven’t even played any games. It’s just a great little portable internet tablet so far. Looking forward to flashing the firmware for homebrew. Have to do the whole Pandora’s Battery/Magic Memory Stick thing, so it’ll be put off for now.