remove unwanted objects from photos

"Community Charting Components (CCC) is a charting library on top of Protovis, a very powerful free and open-source visualization toolkit.

The aim of CCC is to provide developers with a way to include into their dashboards the basic chart types without losing the main principle: Extensibility."

discussion of online backup alternatives

A new free app from Apple lets Lion users make a USB Recovery stick in case of emergency:

"Lingon is a graphical user interface for creating and editing launchd configuration files for Mac OS X Snow Leopard. You can use launchd on a Mac to launch scripts and applications whenever something special happens or at a specific time or periodically. You get all launchd configuration files in a list to the left so you can easily see all and choose which one to edit."

Sage is a free open-source mathematics software system licensed under the GPL. It combines the power of many existing open-source packages into a common Python-based interface.

"nvALT is a fork of the original Notational Velocity with some additional features and some interface modifications. It is a work in progress. I'm not listing it as a beta, as that would imply that it was on its way to being its own product. It's an experiment, and I hope you enjoy it!"

hah!

boom lets you access text snippets over your command line. I'm personally aiming for exactly two use cases, but I'm almost positive there are thirteen more. Here's a couple examples:

Your own del.icio.us-esque URL tracker. When I make clever animated gifs of my coworkers, I tend to lose the URL, which is a total bummer since I want to repeatedly repost these images well past their funny expiration date. boom lets me easily access the good stuff for years to come.
Commonly-used email replies. Everyone's got those stock replies in their pocket for a few common use cases. Rather than keep some files strewn about with the responses, boom gives me them on my ever-present command line.
Simple todos. You can super-quickly drop items into lists and remove them when finished. I'm a big fan of simple, straightforward stuff. Plus, it's a Dropbox away from simple cloud syncing. Someone get Cultured Code on the line THIS MAY BE RELEVANT TO THEIR INTERESTS!
We store everything in one JSON file in your home directory: ~/.boom. The structure is simple, too. Each individual item is tossed on a list, and you can have multiple lists.

SecondBar is a Tool which allows you to have more than one menubar in Mac OS X. This is useful if you have multiple monitors connected to your mac. See this post for more information: http://blog.boastr.net/?p=3

Reeder for Mac 1.0 Draft 1

syncs w simplenote

I just released a small project called WebViewScreenSaver for Mac. It is available on github and is open-sourced. You can download the binary for 10.6.

The idea is very simple: Make any page on the web a screensaver.

A community-driven framework for managing your zsh configuration. Includes optional plugins for various tools (rails, git, OSX, brew,...), over 40 terminal themes, and an auto-updating tool so that you can keep up with the latest improvements from the community.

A parser for a condensed HTML format

"Search in files. Quickly.
VisualAck is like grep (or ack), except faster and with UI. For Mac."

notational velocity fork w/ live markdown preview

"on displays events and tasks right on your desktop using Eon widgets. Adding and removing events and tasks in Eon synchronizes immediately with iCal."

"Homebrew is the easiest and most flexible way to install the UNIX tools Apple didn't include with OS X."

"Stay ensures that your windows are always where you want them to be, even as you connect and disconnect displays."

Ooh, gitx for OSX is nice! #git

Fake is a new browser for Mac OS X that makes web automation simple. Fake allows you to drag discrete browser Actions into a graphical Workflow that can be run again and again without human interaction. The Fake Workflows you create can be saved, reopened, and shared.