diffbot is a visual learning robot that enables developers to easily use web content in their apps.

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A terminal for your browser, using node/express/socket.io

Just booted up a new server for if you're still waiting for a gowalla email, it should only be a few more minutes.

Here are tools for creating ideas, either individually or with other people.

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Today, I’m excited to announce the release of Python Tools for Visual Studio (PTVS), which is now available for download from CodePlex.

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In case you don't know: use
http://twitter.com/#!/search/realtime/YOURTERMHERE
Regular search only displays "top tweets"

live regular expression tool

In a way, WebPutty is sort of like the first scenario outlined above…only it works the way you actually want that scenario to work: in one pane you edit your CSS, and in another pane you see a preview of how that CSS will make your website look. In realtime. No saving (we auto-save for you as you type), no refreshing the preview (we handle that too), and no reverse engineering the changes you’ve been making out of some browser extension.

After the tremendously successful 2000 and 2003 security tools surveys, Insecure.Org is delighted to release this 2006 survey. I (Fyodor) asked users from the nmap-hackers mailing list to share their favorite tools, and 3,243 people responded. This allowed me to expand the list to 100 tools, and even subdivide them into categories. Anyone in the security field would be well advised to go over the list and investigate tools they are unfamiliar with. I discovered several powerful new tools this way. I also point newbies to this site whenever they write me saying “I don't know where to start”.

socat is a relay for bidirectional data transfer between two independent data
channels. Each of these data channels may be a file, pipe, device (serial line
etc. or a pseudo terminal), a socket (UNIX, IP4, IP6 - raw, UDP, TCP), an
SSL socket, proxy CONNECT connection, a file descriptor (stdin etc.), the GNU
line editor (readline), a program, or a combination of two of these.
These modes include generation of "listening" sockets, named pipes, and pseudo
terminals.

vlock is a program to lock one or more sessions on the Linux console. This is especially useful for Linux machines which have multiple users with access to the console. One user may lock his or her session(s) while still allowing other users to use the system on other virtual consoles. If desired, the entire console may be locked and virtual console switching disabled.

Check-Host is a modern online tool for website monitoring and checking availability of hosts, DNS records, IP addresses. It supports the latest technologies such as localized domain names (both punycode and original formats), hostname IPv6 records (also known as AAAA record).

Today we’re making the first version of Swiffy available on Google Labs. You can upload a SWF file, and Swiffy will produce an HTML5 version which will run in modern browsers with a high level of SVG support such as Chrome and Safari. It’s still an early version, so it won’t convert all Flash content, but it already works well on ads and animations. We have some examples of converted SWF files if you want to see it in action.

Have your first 3D project ready for printing in minutes. Tinkercad is a new and faster way of creating designs for your 3D printer. With the help of the latest web technology you can now use a solid modeling CAD directly in your browser.

A white paper discussing Semaphore's role as an enabling technology for Semantic Web and Linked Data initiatives.

"The Semantic Web was defined as a conceptual idea of adding context and meaning to the World Wide Web to make it easier for a human to interact with and possible for a computer to interpret. It has no exact definition and is being driven by a number of steering groups and consortia. Terms like ’semantics’, ’metadata’, ’ontologies’ are applied liberally by researchers and practitioners, so a quick reference to the Smartlogic website will tell you there must be some cross-over.

This paper attempts to describe where we believe Smartlogic’s Semaphore technology fits with current initiatives and standards."

Markdown is a text-to-HTML conversion tool for web writers. Markdown allows you to write using an easy-to-read, easy-to-write plain text format, then convert it to structurally valid XHTML (or HTML).

Thus, “Markdown” is two things: (1) a plain text formatting syntax; and (2) a software tool, written in Perl, that converts the plain text formatting to HTML. See the Syntax page for details pertaining to Markdown’s formatting syntax. You can try it out, right now, using the online Dingus.

A community-driven framework for managing your zsh configuration. Includes 40+ optional plugins (rails, git, OSX, hub, capistrano, brew, ant, macports, etc), over 80 terminal themes to spice up your morning, and an auto-update tool so that makes it easy to keep up with the latest updates from the community.

Prey: Simple yet powerful application for tracking stolen computers
Wynn Netherland posted this 1 week ago
As Joshua Kaufman recently demonstrated with his “This Guy Has My MacBook” Tumblr site, stolen laptop recovery tools like Hidden really do work. It was even covered in the tech section on CNN.com.

ditaa is a small command-line utility written in Java, that can convert diagrams drawn using ascii art ('drawings' that contain characters that resemble lines like | / - ), into proper bitmap graphics. This is best illustrated by the following example -- which also illustrates the benefits of using ditaa in comparison to other methods :)

Simple web based ascii flow diagram drawing tool, draw boxes, lines, arrows and type, then export straight to text/html.

Welcome to the HTML Email Boilerplate. This website and its sample code creates a template of sorts, absent of design or layout, that will help you avoid some of the major rendering problems with the most common email clients out there — Gmail, Outlook, Yahoo Mail, etc. While not plug and play (you know, you'll have to do some work ;-), it will provide some helpful examples and snippets that will keep your email design rendering as true-to-form as possible.

This week we thought we’d share some background on localtunnel, a project I wrote outside of Twilio to help deal with the challenges of developing against webhook-based APIs (such as Twilio’s) when coding behind a NAT.

These days it’s fairly common to run a local environment for web development. Whether you’re running Apache, Mongrel, or the App Engine SDK, we’re all starting to see the benefits of having a production-like environment right there on your laptop so you can iteratively code and debug your app without deploying live, or even needing the Internet.

If you are using a Logan mat cutter, check out their website..
http://www.logangraphic.com/
Logan has a number of "how to videos" and reference charts on their website.

image-usb-stick is a command line tool that safely images USB devices

It supports OS X and Linux currently. Without options, the tool runs in an
interactive mode. The tool will also only allow imaging of actual external
USB storage devices, preventing accidental data loss on internal devices,
a problem often encountered when using lower level tools like dd.

The tool will also offer to unmount any mounted partitions on the target
device.

The answer is use a DNS proxy i.e. Dnsmasq. It is a a lightweight, easy to configure DNS forwarder and optional DHCP server. Dnsmasq is targeted at home networks using NAT and connected to the internet via a modem, cable-modem or ADSL connection but would be a good choice for any small network where low resource use and ease of configuration are important. The main use of the DNS proxy is to increase speed. Generally all computer send their request to ISP's DNS servers. But with DNS proxy request are cached. It stands between your local system and firewall server. Here is our sample network setup, 192.168.1.1-3 are all desktop system, 192.168.1.254 is our Linux firewall server: