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Diigo Bookmarks 04/08/2010
<p class=‘diigo-description’> eBook converter, reader and manager. </p> <p class=‘diigo-tags’> <a style=‘color:#000 !important;text-decoration:none !important;’ href=‘http://www.diigo.com/cloud/knightnet'>tags</a>: <a href=‘http://www.diigo.com/user/knightnet/ebooks'>ebooks</a>, <a href=‘http://www.diigo.com/user/knightnet/windows'>windows</a>, <a href=‘http://www.diigo.com/user/knightnet/linux'>linux</a>, <a href=‘http://www.diigo.com/user/knightnet/mac'>mac</a>, <a href=‘http://www.diigo.com/user/knightnet/freeware'>freeware</a>, <a href=‘http://www.diigo.com/user/knightnet/software'>software</a> </p>
Diigo Bookmarks 04/02/2010
<p class=‘diigo-description’> Code snippet repository </p> <p class=‘diigo-tags’> <a style=‘color:#000 !important;text-decoration:none !important;’ href=‘http://www.diigo.com/cloud/knightnet'>tags</a>: <a href=‘http://www.diigo.com/user/knightnet/development'>development</a>, <a href=‘http://www.diigo.com/user/knightnet/reference'>reference</a> </p> <ul class=‘diigo-comments’> <li> <span class=‘diigo-post-by’> – post by <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/springnet">springnet</a></span> </li> <li> <span class=‘diigo-post-by’> – post by <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/ziller">ziller</a></span> </li> <li> <span class=‘diigo-post-by’> – post by <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/mktsome">mktsome</a></span> </li> <li> <span class=‘diigo-post-by’> – post by <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/ycc2106">ycc2106</a></span> </li> <li> <span class=‘diigo-post-by’> – post by <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/chusrp">chusrp</a></span> </li> <li> <span class=‘diigo-post-by’> – post by <a href="http://www.
Diigo Bookmarks 04/01/2010
<p class=‘diigo-description’> A method for maintaining a paper-based “PDA” with calendar, To Do, Notes, etc. Uses Index Cards. </p> <p class=‘diigo-tags’> <a style=‘color:#000 !important;text-decoration:none !important;’ href=‘http://www.diigo.com/cloud/knightnet'>tags</a>: <a href=‘http://www.diigo.com/user/knightnet/gtd'>gtd</a>, <a href=‘http://www.diigo.com/user/knightnet/planning'>planning</a>, <a href=‘http://www.diigo.com/user/knightnet/paper'>paper</a> </p> <p class=‘diigo-description’> Loads of templates for paper-based planning and note-taking </p> <p class=‘diigo-tags’> <a style=‘color:#000 !important;text-decoration:none !important;’ href=‘http://www.diigo.com/cloud/knightnet'>tags</a>: <a href=‘http://www.diigo.com/user/knightnet/gtd'>gtd</a>, <a href=‘http://www.diigo.com/user/knightnet/planning'>planning</a>, <a href=‘http://www.diigo.com/user/knightnet/paper'>paper</a> </p> <ul class=‘diigo-comments’> <li> <span class=‘diigo-post-by’> – post by <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/jgentry">jgentry</a></span> </li> <li> <span class=‘diigo-post-by’> – post by <a href="http://www.
Diigo Bookmarks 03/26/2010
<p class=‘diigo-description’> Create timeline graphs<br /> See also: http://www.simile-widgets.org/timeline/ </p> <p class=‘diigo-tags’> <a style=‘color:#000 !important;text-decoration:none !important;’ href=‘http://www.diigo.com/cloud/knightnet'>tags</a>: <a href=‘http://www.diigo.com/user/knightnet/graphics'>graphics</a> </p>
Diigo Bookmarks 03/24/2010
<p class=‘diigo-description’> Use as a hub to drive updates to many social (and bookmarking or blogging) systems.<br /> Simply post to Ping.FM and it will send the post on (in suitable formats) to all of the services you’ve configured. You can post via web, mobile, desktop clients, IM, etc. </p> <p class=‘diigo-tags’> <a style=‘color:#000 !important;text-decoration:none !important;’ href=‘http://www.diigo.com/cloud/knightnet'>tags</a>: <a href=‘http://www.diigo.com/user/knightnet/social'>social</a>, <a href=‘http://www.diigo.com/user/knightnet/microblogging'>microblogging</a> </p> <ul class=‘diigo-comments’> <li> <span class=‘diigo-post-by’> – post by <a href="http://www.
Diigo Bookmarks 03/23/2010
<p class=‘diigo-tags’> <a style=‘color:#000 !important;text-decoration:none !important;’ href=‘http://www.diigo.com/cloud/knightnet'>tags</a>: <a href=‘http://www.diigo.com/user/knightnet/TODO'>TODO</a> </p> <p class=‘diigo-tags’> <a style=‘color:#000 !important;text-decoration:none !important;’ href=‘http://www.diigo.com/cloud/knightnet'>tags</a>: <a href=‘http://www.diigo.com/user/knightnet/TODO'>TODO</a> </p>
Diigo Bookmarks 03/11/2010
<p class=‘diigo-tags’> <a style=‘color:#000 !important;text-decoration:none !important;’ href=‘http://www.diigo.com/cloud/knightnet'>tags</a>: <a href=‘http://www.diigo.com/user/knightnet/excel'>excel</a>, <a href=‘http://www.diigo.com/user/knightnet/converter'>converter</a>, <a href=‘http://www.diigo.com/user/knightnet/web'>web</a>, <a href=‘http://www.diigo.com/user/knightnet/pdf'>pdf</a> </p>
Diigo Bookmarks 02/25/2010
<p class=‘diigo-description’> Develop with various languages using just a browser! Including JavaScript, PHP, c#, .NET, HTML, CSS, WCF, Silverlight and more </p> <p class=‘diigo-tags’> <a style=‘color:#000 !important;text-decoration:none !important;’ href=‘http://www.diigo.com/cloud/knightnet'>tags</a>: <a href=‘http://www.diigo.com/user/knightnet/development'>development</a>, <a href=‘http://www.diigo.com/user/knightnet/scripting'>scripting</a>, <a href=‘http://www.diigo.com/user/knightnet/programming'>programming</a>, <a href=‘http://www.diigo.com/user/knightnet/javascript'>javascript</a> </p> <p class=‘diigo-description’> Some good-looking visualisations using JSON input data. </p> <p class=‘diigo-tags’> <a style=‘color:#000 !important;text-decoration:none !important;’ href=‘http://www.diigo.com/cloud/knightnet'>tags</a>: <a href=‘http://www.diigo.com/user/knightnet/javascript'>javascript</a>, <a href=‘http://www.diigo.com/user/knightnet/development'>development</a>, <a href=‘http://www.diigo.com/user/knightnet/scripting'>scripting</a>, <a href=‘http://www.diigo.com/user/knightnet/library'>library</a> </p>
Diigo Bookmarks 02/23/2010
<p class=‘diigo-description’> Media focused Windows automation. With an emphasis on control from various remotes and controlling media players. </p> <p class=‘diigo-tags’> <a style=‘color:#000 !important;text-decoration:none !important;’ href=‘http://www.diigo.com/cloud/knightnet'>tags</a>: <a href=‘http://www.diigo.com/user/knightnet/windows'>windows</a>, <a href=‘http://www.diigo.com/user/knightnet/development'>development</a>, <a href=‘http://www.diigo.com/user/knightnet/scripting'>scripting</a> </p>
Diigo Bookmarks 02/05/2010
<p class=‘diigo-description’> Diigo online bookmarking finally reaches to Google Chrome browser! Diigo is the best of the bunch for keeping and sharing bookmarks, allowing for descriptions to be added as well as allowing tags, lists and shared groups. </p> <p class=‘diigo-tags’> <a style=‘color:#000 !important;text-decoration:none !important;’ href=‘http://www.diigo.com/cloud/knightnet'>tags</a>: <a href=‘http://www.diigo.com/user/knightnet/web'>web</a> </p> <ul class=‘diigo-comments’> <li> <span class=‘diigo-post-by’> – post by <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/sanae_sousou">sanae_sousou</a></span> </li> <li> <span class=‘diigo-post-by’> – post by <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/yasir234">yasir234</a></span> </li> </ul> <p class=‘diigo-description’> Handy little utility that generates dummy images at a specific size.
Diigo Bookmarks 02/04/2010
<p class=‘diigo-description’> Great little command line utility to index and search Maildir, MH or MBOX formatted mail folders. It creates a new mail folder with the results linked back to the mail so works transparently in any mail client that uses one of these formats for mail storage.<br /> See: http://rajasuperman.blogspot.com/2007/07/using-mairix-through-procmail.html for an example of using with Procmail and Dreamhost. </p> <p class=‘diigo-tags’> <a style=‘color:#000 !important;text-decoration:none !important;’ href=‘http://www.diigo.com/cloud/knightnet'>tags</a>: <a href=‘http://www.
Diigo Bookmarks 01/06/2010
<p class=‘diigo-description’> High performance disk/volume snapshots for any Linux block device (e.g. hard disk). The copy is writeable but is destroyed on reboot. Good for ensuring consistent backups on busy machines, testing potentially destructive scripts, checking what changes a script or installation makes, etc. </p> <p> Currently free (beta), not clear if it will be payware when it comes out of beta. </p> <p class=‘diigo-tags’> <a style=‘color:#000 !important;text-decoration:none !important;’ href=‘http://www.
Diigo Bookmarks 12/31/2009
<p class=‘diigo-description’> “GeoHack is a modified version of the map sources from the gis extension by Egil Kvaleberg. It is designed to do simple HTML replacements of a template on Wikipedia and serve it to the client. It is used by Wikipedia for provide links to various mapping services”<br /> Go to wiki.toolserver.org/GeoHack to get a form to enter lat./long. – displays loads of links to mapping and other geo resources for the location given.
Diigo Bookmarks 12/23/2009
<p class=‘diigo-description’> Very smart web application that creates a personalised fold-able booklet that can contain all sorts of information. Very clever. Neat way to keep some info in your pocket or wallet without carrying electronics. </p> <p class=‘diigo-tags’> <a style=‘color:#000 !important;text-decoration:none !important;’ href=‘http://www.diigo.com/cloud/knightnet'>tags</a>: <a href=‘http://www.diigo.com/user/knightnet/web'>web</a>, <a href=‘http://www.diigo.com/user/knightnet/reference'>reference</a> </p>
Diigo Bookmarks 12/09/2009
<p class=‘diigo-description’> Test the performance of difference DNS servers such as your ISP DNS, OpenDNS and the new Google DNS </p> <p class=‘diigo-tags’> <a style=‘color:#000 !important;text-decoration:none !important;’ href=‘http://www.diigo.com/cloud/knightnet'>tags</a>: <a href=‘http://www.diigo.com/user/knightnet/testing'>testing</a> </p>
