Perl One-liners 102

"From printing a range of lines to listing a file's contents in reverse order, Ted shows how to do more with less using these succinct, one-line Perl scripts."

http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-p102.html

Perl One-liners 101

"Those who use Perl as a programming language frequently forget that it is just as useful as a quick and dirty scripting engine for command-line operations. From the command line Perl can accomplish, in just a single line, tasks that require pages of code in most other languages. Join Teodor as he takes you through some useful examples."

http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-p101/

Graphics and Images with Perl

"This is a small collection of graphics related scripts, hints and howtos.

• Image size
• Image details
• Converting between image formats
• Rotating an Image
• Making thumbnails
• Image upload and storeage (as files or databases)
• Bulk resizing images with PerlMagick"

perlping - portable ping(1) in Pure Perl

"perlping is a Unix-like ping(1) implementation, using Net::Ping for the low-level ping functionality."

http://use.perl.org/~Mark+Leighton+Fisher/journal/23481

Asciio lets you create ASCII charts graphically

"Nadim has released Asciio, a Perl/GTK application that lets you draw ASCII charts using a GUI. Objects on the screen are sizable and have all the properties you'd expect in a drawing tool (titles for the boxes, bullets, etc), but the end result is plain text that's embeddable in your code."

Perl - Bulk File & Directory Renamer

"It a simple program for renaming multiple files & directories (a.k.a. folders) from a command line with support for recursion into subdirectories, regular expressions (a.k.a regexps a.k.a. regexs) and a test (dry run) mode."

http://duramecho.com/ComputerPrograms/RecursiveRegexpRename/index.html

Ten Short, Useful Perl Programs

"Some people believe that short programs aren't good for very much, but that's not so with Perl. Just a couple lines of Perl code can go a long way. This article lists some handy teeny, tiny Perl programs."

http://www.dummies.com/WileyCDA/DummiesArticle/id-1733.html

Perl - Find duplicate files.

http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=49198

Perl Circus - Tips and Tricks

"Perl Circus has been serving up fresh buttered Perl tricks since 2001. During that time our code snippets have delighted programmers of all ages. But the life of the Perl coder isn't all fun and games. A good Perl programmer has a skill set somewhere between a hacker and trainer of wild animals. Camels can be dangerous when cornered."

http://www.perlcircus.org/index.shtml

DesktopTwo

"... personal information, files, programs, applications, and more in one user-friendly location ..."

http://desktoptwo.com/

EyeOS

"eyeOS is a new kind of Operating System, where everything resides on a web browser. With eyeOS, you will have your desktop, applications and files always with you, from your home, your college, your office or your neighbour's house. Just open a web browser, connect to your eyeOS System and access your personal desktop and all your stuff just like you left it last time."

http://eyeos.org/en/

Plugless Sink

"Do sinks really need a paradigm shift in design? Designer Maja Ganszyniec seems to think so. Check out this Plugless Sink. From the name you should be able to figure out what’s different about it. There’s a reason behind this altruistic design though. Since you have to manually pour the water out into a spillway, you’re consciously aware of how much water you’re using."



http://www.yankodesign.com/index.php/2008/06/25/wheres-the-hole/

Operating System Sucks-Rules-O-Meter

http://srom.zgp.org/
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Jooce - Web Operating System

"Now you can start uploading files, music, photos, videos from a local disk drive or the web, store and organize them as if you have your own computer, play them using the jooce media player, transfer any of your jooce files or folders to any of your friends in your contact's list instantly with drag-n-drop ease, chat with any friend even if they have MSN, Yahoo, AIM, or ICQ instant messenger accounts, create a public joocetop from where your friends can see and retrieve any files or folders you post there, visit other people's public joocetops, transfer files and folders from your friends public joocetops onto your own jooce account or share them with other friends on your contacts list, customize your private desktop as well as your public joocetop."

http://www.jooce.com/

Find open source software alternatives to well-known commercial software

"Top ten Open Source
1. OpenOffice Draw
2. Dia
3. Gimpshop
4. InfraRecorder
5. Cinelerra
6. Quanta Plus
7. Partition Image
8. Avidemux
9. Kivio
10. Paint.NET"

http://www.osalt.com/

Software and Online Tools for Education

http://couros.wikispaces.com/tools

Tilestack

" Remember that great application that used to come with all Macs called HyperCard? Ever wished it would return, only better? Say hello to TileStack!"

http://www.tilestack.com/

40 Excellent Web Based Tools to Help You Design from Anywhere

"With web based applications becoming so advanced it is now possible to still get work done anywhere there is a computer without installing any software. From image editing to Word documents, you can do it all online."

http://www.designvitality.com/blog/2008/02/40-excellent-web-based-tools-to-help-you-design-from-anywhere/

Best practices for managing your online identity

"Did you know there are lots of tools out there that will alert you when your name shows up online? You can use these services to set up watchlists, so you're aware of when something about you shows up online."

http://claimid.com/bestpractices

Pageonce

"Simply select your personal accounts from social networking, email and travel to entertainment, banking, credit cards and much more and add them to your personal page"

http://pageonce.com/

Web 2.0 Mashup Directory

http://www.programmableweb.com/popular

Feed Journal

"Content is king. There are no two ways about it. When people were talking about the information age ten-fifteen years ago I didn't get it. I didn't see how the management and distribution of content could become so central in a society that it would name a whole time period. But I am starting to see it now, how a low signal-to-noise ratio can kill the greatest endeavor; how the delivery of timely and to the point information can be of extreme value; and how the production of high quality content in itself can form an outstanding business plan."

http://feedjournal.com/

Keybr - Typing at the speed of thought

Typing tutor

Valid XHTML YouTube embed code generator

"This free tool will create a valid XHTML embed code for any YouTube video. The code YouTube shows on the embed field is not valid XHTML! However, you can simply use this simple tool to make it Valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional."

http://www.tools4noobs.com/online_tools/youtube_xhtml/