Visual studio: start mutiple projects

There is a nice tool that allows you to define combination of multiple projects that should be started together when running things from Visual studio, the extension is called SwitchStartupProject and can be found here:

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=vs-publisher-141975.SwitchStartupProject

Install Disk cleanup in windows 2008 r2

The site basics.net have the instructions how to install the disk cleanup nicely (the default Microsoft way is crap because you end up withi loads of stuff installed in the system), the article with the instructions is http://www.basics.net/2013/02/25/win-server-2008-r2-how-to-enable-the-disk-cleanup-utility/

Copy 2 files to specific system folders and you can immediately use the tool:

Copy Cleanmgr.exe to %systemroot%\System32.
Copy Cleanmgr.exe.mui to %systemroot%\System32\en-US.
The 2 files are located in
- C:\Windows\winsxs\amd64_microsoft-windows-cleanmgr_31bf3856ad364e35_6.1.7600.16385_none_c9392808773cd7da\cleanmgr.exe
- C:\Windows\winsxs\amd64_microsoft-windows-cleanmgr.resources_31bf3856ad364e35_6.1.7600.16385_en-us_b9cb6194b257cc63\cleanmgr.exe.mui

You can simply run this as administrator:

copy C:\Windows\winsxs\amd64_microsoft-windows-cleanmgr_31bf3856ad364e35_6.1.7600.16385_none_c9392808773cd7da\cleanmgr.exe %systemroot%\System32
copy C:\Windows\winsxs\amd64_microsoft-windows-cleanmgr.resources_31bf3856ad364e35_6.1.7600.16385_en-us_b9cb6194b257cc63\cleanmgr.exe.mui %systemroot%\System32\en-US

Missing feature in MacOS mail: Archive

Thunderbird has a very nice feature, the archive button, that will send the selected emails into an archive folder.
So I created a service that does that, it will go through the selected emails, and it will archive them in "[Gmail]/All Mail" if the account server contains the string gmail, and Archive/<year> if not. 

The workflow can be found here.
 TODO: is still error handling if the destination mailbox does not exist.

To Install unzip to the folder ~/Library/Services.

Look inside a installer package

Suspicious package is a finder plugin that allows you to look inside an installer package without opening it.

nvPy - mlty-platform notacional velocity

Notacional velocity is a very nice note taking application for mac, now there is also nvPy, according to the author:
nvpy is a simplenote-syncing note-taking tool inspired by Notational Velocity (and a little bit by nvALT too) on OSX and ResophNotes on Windows. It is significantly uglier, but it is cross-platform. Yes, you heard right, you can run this on Linux (tested), Windows (tested) and OS X (lightly tested).

The url is https://github.com/cpbotha/nvpy

dfc: df in color

Very nice program that does the same as df, but with pretty colors. You can find it in the development page http://projects.gw-computing.net/projects/dfc

split2flac: slip a audio file

split2flac splits one big APE/FLAC/WV/WAV audio image (or a collection of such files, recursively) with CUE sheet into FLAC/M4A/MP3/OGG_VORBIS/WAV tracks with tagging, renaming, charset conversion of cue sheet, album cover images. It also uses configuration file, so no need to pass a lot of arguments every time, only an input file.
https://github.com/ftrvxmtrx/split2flac
from onethingwell

Great clipboard manager

FlyCut seems to be a very nice clipboard manager, based in the Jumpcut. You can find it in the App store, or bettr yet in the git: https://github.com/TermiT/flycut

9menu - create a menu to run commands

9menu is a simple program that accepts a list of menu item and command pairs on the command line. It creates a window that consists of nothing but a menu. When a particular item is selected, the corresponding command is executed.
http://pwet.fr/man/linux/commandes/9menu

Convert data tables: Mr Data Converter

A javascript program that will take your csv tables and will output them in other formats: Python dictionaries, SQL, HTML, etc.
Available in git: https://github.com/shancarter/Mr-Data-Converter

csshx and spark

csshx is a mac OS tool to connect in parallel to several machine and send the same command to all the machines see project page http://code.google.com/p/csshx/ spark is shell script to produce sparklines from your command line, project page https://github.com/holman/spark Suggestion from http://onethingwell.org

Derpbox replacement for Dropbox, written in bash

Derpbox is a secure replacement for Dropbox, written in bash. Released under the beer-ware license, a pint of cider is fine too. It runs fine with GNU bash 4.2.8 and rsync 3.0.7.

https://github.com/L-P/Derpbox

xmonad - tiling windows manager

Today XKCD mentioned http://xkcd.com/934/ mentioned xmonad. it got to be worth a try...
See: http://xmonad.org/

Time machine for linux

flyback :
Apple's Time Machine is a great feature in their OS, and Linux has almost all of the required technology already built in to recreate it. This is a simple GUI to make it easy to use.

Via onethingwell

Screen, tmux and reparenting

reptyr is a utility for taking an existing running program and
attaching it to a new terminal. Started a long-running process over
ssh, but have to leave and don't want to interrupt it? Just start a
screen, use reptyr to grab it, and then kill the ssh session and head
on home.

tmux is a terminal multiplexer: it enables a number of terminals (or windows), each running a separate program, to be created, accessed, and controlled from a single screen. tmux may be detached from a screen and continue running in the background, then later reattached. (Maybe a nice replacement of screen)

Pow and the website is up!

Pow

Pow is a zero-config Rack server for Mac OS X. Have it serving your apps locally in under a minute.

Via onethingwell

Ermine - package packer

Ermine packs a GNU/Linux application together with any needed shared libraries and data files into a single executable. This file can be copied to any GNU/Linux host and run without further modifications.

http://www.magicermine.com/

Suggestion form One Thing Well

yeah baby Stroke me!!!

A cool application I found recommended by the blog Lifehacker called Launchy. It is very similar to Quicksilver for Mac OsX. It is a really nice way to launch stuff or just opening your favorite folders.

Tip: I created a directory were I put all the links for folders or programs that are not in my Start menu and I like to access frequently. then I set this directory to be indexed by launchy and I have fast access to all I want in my computer.

Note: launchy will also launch directly the stuff found in control panel.