So now I’ve finally gotten it to the point that I feel is relatively stable. It’s still got some bugs (but thats why its beta, right?) and niggly little issues, but it’s pretty solid on the whole.

I’m currently working on some type of facebook app/integration and scraper to pull more shows automatically. Still, it’s such a grand scale, it can be a bit daunting.

Check it out, let me know what you think.

http://localscene.fm

So, like so many things, I couln’t find what I wanted, so I made my own. Just fill it out the fields and hit Calculate.

Note: This is is like uber version 1. I’ve got some more features planned for it soon

Demo

This are an ever growing compilation of scripts and code snippets that I have written or collected in a format that’s easy to understand and use. If you need any help feel free to email me at nic@nicinabox.com.

I encourage you to checkout some of the Desktop screenshots on Flickr (some are very nice!) for ideas.If you have a script or something clever you’d like to add to this collection, please contact me.

Current Version: 0.7 (12/19/09)

Includes:

• Network info
• Unread Gmail
• Uptime
• Calendar (with current day denoted)
• Weather
• System Stats
• Network monitoring

Network Info

ifconfig en1 | grep "inet " | awk '{print $2}'

161.45.27.132

Unread Gmail

chkgmail

4 Unread

Uptime

uptime | awk '{print "Uptime : " $3 " " $4 " " $5 }' | sed -e 's/.$//g'

Uptime : 1 day, 17:54

Calendar

cal | awk -v cday=`date "+%d"` '{ fill=(int(cday)>9?"":" "); \
a=$0; sub(" "fill int(cday)" ","["fill int(cday)"]",a); print a }'

     March 2009
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
 1  2  3  4  5  6  7
 8  9 10 11 12 13 14
15 16 17 18 19 20 21
22 23 24 25 26 27 28
29 30 31

Weather

weather -cm 37130

55F | 81F
Fair

weather 37130

80F

System Stats

top -orsize -FR -l1 | grep % | grep -v Load | grep -v COMMAND | cut -c 7-19,64-69

firefox-bi     281M
kernel_tas     160M
iTunes         113M
WindowServ      63M
Finder          61M
Quicksilve      56M
mds             47M
Last.fm         42M
ForkLift        37M
TextMate        31M
Font Book       27M
YouControl      21M
GrowlHelpe      19M
coreservic      18M
GeekTool        16M
Spotlight       14M
mysqld          12M
ATSServer       12M
Dock            12M

Recent music Plays

curl -s http://localhost/tunes.php

4:58 Sigur Rós : Untitled #6 Reversed
4:56 Talkdemonic : Indian Angel
4:46 Caspian : Moksha
4:42 The Album Leaf : Another Day
4:35 A Silver Mt. Zion : For Wanda
4:30 Mogwai : I Know You Are but What Am I
4:17 Mono & World's End Girlfriend : Palmless Prayer / Mass Murder Refrain (#2)
3:55 Godspeed You! Black Emperor : Motherfucker=Redeemer (Part One)
3:52 Rachel's : The Last Light
3:49 Set Fire to Flames : Small Steps Against Inertia/Echo Of A Dead

>> Demo

Demo

Once every while, you encounter a website, which has interesting stuff available to you as a registered user only. No big deal, you just create an account and there you go. However, over time, the many, many user accounts with their passwords become hard to remember. You’ll just forget the cleverly crafted variation eventually, to find you struggeling again with yet another “forgot password” service variation.

A common solution is to have just one password for all of those sites, which are considered of low to medium risk if broken into. The problem with this is, that a rogue site owner might go out and impersonate as you, once they find out about other sites you may hang out with the same account. A little “social engineering”, and you can be in big trouble.

The solution

Now there is nothing wrong with a single, strong password, as long as it is not used literally. Enter the concept of a Master Password that generates a strong password, unique for every web site where it is used.

How it works

The password generator takes your master password and combines it with the domain name using the SHA1 algorithm created by the NSA. The, for added security certain letters are converted to uppercase

Credits

Inspiration for this project here

Demo

Try it

Check it here

UPDATE: It apparently only works with Firefox. Ill add cross browser support in a bit

I use a Greasemonkey script (found here) called Password Composer (you can read all about it on that link). Now, this script is an absolute godsend really. But there are some shortcomings..sortof. Not with the script itself, but more with the convenience and implementation. For example, I use my mac regularly, so its totally cool to be running Greasemonkey and my custom hacks. But what about the times I need to quickly check my mail on a random work computer? or the library? or any public computer??

I pop open Firefox and go to login to my email… Then I remember that my email is conveniently locked down by an MD5 encrypted master password to keep me idiots out.

I setup a web based form for these dire times. Check it out here.

You can get the offline version here.