With a lolcat favicon if you access it from your browser Show Sample Output
Instead of having someone else read you the Digg headlines, Have OSX do it. Requires Curl+Sed+Say. This could probably be easily modified to use espeak for Linux.
Here's a version that uses netcat (although I'd much rather use curl!).
#Sample Usage: # git commit -m"Jira #404 - `whatthecommit`" # Show Sample Output
this will dump a list of domains one per line into a text file
The dates in the output are Start Date, End Date, Days Remaining in warranty, respectively. This will only work if you are running it on a dell machine. You can substitute the dmidecode command with a service tag if you are not using a dell. Also, you have to either allow your user to run sudo dmidecode with no password or run this command as root. Show Sample Output
Fetch comical VC commit messages from whatthecommit.com Show Sample Output
Calc the rough time from Twitter. Now with leading Zeroes. Show Sample Output
Simple external IP checker, there are many on here but this one works and seems to be the shortest option I can find. Show Sample Output
Like i said, i havent test it yet, all becouse my internet its soo slow, if you try and works please share, also be nice to do it using the direct url link. Show Sample Output
ip.telize.com (Listen on both IPv4 and IPv6) ip4.telize.com (Listen on IPv4 only) ip6.telize.com (Listen on IPv6 only) More information on : http://www.telize.com
Turns regular quotes into curly quotes, also converts hyphens to dashes using a heuristic and outputs the result as UTF-8, suitable to copy/paste into wordprocessor. requires: http://daringfireball.net/projects/smartypants/ (which does most of the work) (I renamed smartypants.pl to smartypants before adding it to my $PATH) Also requrires PHP with the multibyte module installed (its installed by default with PHP, but the sysadmin on one server I use disabled it... presumadly to increase performance or something).
This download a complete audio podcast
curl doesn't provide url-encoding for 'GET' data, it have an option '--data-urlencode', but its only for 'POST' data. Thats why I need to write down this commandline. With 'perl', 'php' and 'python', this is one liner, but just I wrote it for fun. Works in Ubuntu, will work in all linux varients(I hope it will work in unix varients also). Show Sample Output
If curl isn't available, use lynx.
--basic --user username:password This will authenticate your Twitter username and password --data status="" Send data to the API with POST HTTP form.
We can put this inside a function:
fxray() { curl -s http://urlxray.com/display.php?url="$1" | grep -o '<title>.*</title>' | sed 's/<title>.*--> \(.*\)<\/title>/\1/g'; };
fxray http://tinyurl.com/demo-xray
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