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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>
Diigo Bookmarks 12/04/2009
<p class=‘diigo-description’> Talks about the need for log-based user activity monitoring (rather than just network traffic monitoring). A useful reminder that RBAC systems need monitoring and enforcing. </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/IdM'>IdM</a> </p>
Diigo Bookmarks 12/02/2009
<p class=‘diigo-description’> “The jQuery Cycle Plugin is a lightweight slideshow plugin. Its implementation is based on the InnerFade Plugin by Torsten Baldes, the Slideshow Plugin by Matt Oakes, and the jqShuffle Plugin by Benjamin Sterling. It supports pause-on-hover, auto-stop, auto-fit, before/after callbacks, click triggers and many transition effects. It also supports, but does not require, the Metadata Plugin and the Easing Plugin.”<br /> This is one that really works and is genuinely easy to set up – no complex CSS like so many of these things.
Diigo Bookmarks 11/29/2009
<p class=‘diigo-description’> Vista/Windows 7 compatible wireless (Wi-Fi) network scanner. Use it to identify clashing Wi-Fi network channels. This really is the business, it shows useful graphical views of channel overlap as well as signal strength. </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/network'>network</a>, <a href=‘http://www.diigo.com/user/knightnet/wifi'>wifi</a> </p> <p class=‘diigo-description’> Vista/Windows 7 compatible wireless (Wi-Fi) network scanner. Use it to identify clashing Wi-Fi network channels. </p> <p class=‘diigo-tags’> <a style=‘color:#000 !
Diigo Bookmarks 11/27/2009
<p class=‘diigo-description’> Online diagram tool. Flowcharts, Network Diagrams, Org Charts, UML, Sitemaps, SWOT Templates, Wireframes, UI Mockups, etc.<br /> Free and paid versions. </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/diagrams'>diagrams</a>, <a href=‘http://www.diigo.com/user/knightnet/collaboration'>collaboration</a>, <a href=‘http://www.diigo.com/user/knightnet/web'>web</a> </p>
Diigo Bookmarks 11/26/2009
<p class=‘diigo-description’> A possibly interesting application that enables easier access to external data. Create dashboards. </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/database'>database</a> </p>
