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https://support.google.com/mail/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=13287
Gmail POP and SMTP server settings.
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http://www.macresearch.org/tutorial_backups_with_launchd
Tutorial on how to have launchd automatically run scripts (such as rysnc) when USB devices are plugged in, automated backup when a USB drive is plugged in for example.
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http://blog.arnaudlacour.com/2012/11/backing-up-to-usb-drive-when-plugged-in.html
Tutorial on how to set up OSX to automatically backup when a USB drive is plugged in. Neat.
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http://manytricks.com/witch/
Window based alt-tab instead of application based alt-tab for the mac, at a cost of $14. Interesting...
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http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/5721/tinkertool
Exposes additional preference settings for OSX allowing things like sloppy focus (activate window on mouseover) and probably other cool stuff. Must have.
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http://www.coconut-flavour.com/coconutbattery/
Great little (free, beer) app for OSX that shows detailed battery information.
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http://pilotmoon.com/popclip/
$5 app for OSX that pops up the iOS style cut copy paste options above any selected text. Supports an MIT licensed extension system. Might support auto-copying, if not, probably easy enough with an extension.
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http://lifehacker.com/5985248/top-10-underhyped-mac-apps
Good wee article on lifehacker hilghlighting 10 underrated mac apps worth having. A few are free, and some seem worth checking out.
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http://lifehacker.com/5643460/how-to-track-and-potentially-recover-your-stolen-laptop-or-android-with-prey
Install this, prey, on phone (and laptop?). It's remote wipe, track, etc software, and it's free up to 3 devices apparently.
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http://jumpcut.sourceforge.net/
Simple clipboard buffer (keeps a clipboard history). Not quite select / middle click, but a step in the right direction.
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http://www.boastr.de/#features
A must have mouse customisation app for OSX which is free (as in beer?). Includes awesomeness like snap windows to positions and other genius. Looks outstandingly useful.
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http://www.prchecker.info/check_page_rank.php
Handy little app to check a url's pagerank.
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https://www.appfog.com/
PaaS offering for a wide range of platforms, free up to 8 servers, 2G of ram, 100M database. Supports, PHP, Node.js and more.
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https://www.nodejitsu.com/
PaaS offering for Node.js. Based on units called "drones". Starts at $3/month for a single drone, free for open source projects.
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https://github.com/ichikaway/cakephp-mongodb
The CakePHP MongoDB plugin. Include the plugin, create a model, flag it to be sent to Mongo, and boom, your'e in business. Simple, elegant.
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http://nuts-and-bolts-of-cakephp.com/2012/07/18/cakephp-mongodb-introduction/
Useful intro to using MongoDB with CakePHP. Works quite nicely, load the plugin, specify your model should use Mongo, and boom, you're in business.
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http://www.giantflyingsaucer.com/blog/?p=3918
Useful article mixing restify, node.js and coffeescript. Very handy for the basic design patterns and language layouts, even if it's a really simple example.
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http://coffeescriptcookbook.com/
Awesome walkthrough of various coffeescript features / options / design patters, etc. Found it via the section on regexes, excellent, useful.
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http://howtonode.org/introduction-to-npm
Oustanding little introduction to npm and how to use it. One trick, give your user access to /usr/local/ or /usr/lib/node_modules/ so npm doesn't need sudo. Nice.
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http://apptob.org/
Scripts to auto install node.js on Ubuntu. Includes a few handy dependencies, etc. Neat.
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https://github.com/varnish/varnish-devicedetect/
Simple regexes to handle device detection within varnish. Includes links to documentation and suggested implementations. Neat.
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http://doc.bazaar.canonical.com/bzr.dev/en/user-reference/authentication-help.html
How to save usernames / passwords so bazaar doesn't ask for them every time. Handy.
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http://blog.joeandrieu.com/2012/01/30/the-worlds-simplest-autotweeter-in-node-js/
A really simple walkthrough of how an auto tweeting tool was created in node.js. Includes some useful links to node-oauth, forever (monit for node), and express, a web framework for node!
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https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3508926?start=0&tstart=0
Apparently one can secure a mac by issuing the command `sudo pmset -a destroyfvkeyonstandby 1` which tells it to destroy the FileVault keys on standby, whether standby to memory or disk.
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http://rapidnfc.com/
UK based NFC seller. Great info on NFC tags, how to program them, how much data they store, and so on. Very handy, seems reasonably priced.
