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Fetch Links From Twitter Into Your RSS Reader
Twitter streams are usually full of links, most of them are shortened by a URL shortener, and filtering them might be time consuming.
A cool service, Readtwit, solves this problem intelligently: Using Readtwit, you can easily create a RSS feed of all links appearing in your twitter stream. The service will fetch the links, and send the full story to your RSS reader. It allows you to filter the tweets (block people and block hashtags).
Neat and time-saving. Try it and have fun 
Google Reader Useful “Send To” Services
Recently, Google have added a “send to” feature to Google Reader, which allows one to share an item in social networks (Facebook, Twitter, etc…).
The greatest thing in this feature is, that Google allows you to add custom sites to the “Send To” destinations. A few nice sites are listed below:
1. Download item as PDF (via)
Name: Save as PDF
URL: http://savepageaspdf.pdfonline.com/pdfonline/pdfonline.asp?cURL=${url}
Icon URL: http://www.adobe.com/lib/com.adobe/template/icon/pdf.gif
Create Multiple Nested Directories in Linux
Did you know that you can create a complete directory tree with one command?
Let’s start with a simple example:
mkdir -p a/b/c
will create this tree:
`-- a
`-- b
`-- c
And any of these:
mkdir -p a/{b1,b2}/c
or
mkdir -p a/b{1,2}/c
Will create this tree:
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Share Code Snippets Easily From the Command Line
This is a great tip I found at commandlinefu to easily share code snippets write from the command line.
First, you may want to add this to your aliases file:
1 | alias share='curl -F "sprunge=<-" http://sprunge.us | xclip' |
(If you don’t have the xclip program, you can easily install it from your package manager.)
Now, say that you have a c program named “hello.c”, to share it, type this (after reloading your aliases file of course):
cat hello.c | share
Now, the code is already in the internet, and the URL is in your clipboard. Go to firefox and click the middle mouse button in the URI area. You’ll see a URL similar to this:
http://sprunge.us/BaFS
To view the code with syntax highlighting and line numbers, just append “?c? (or “?lang” where ‘lang’ is the relevant programming language). So the final URL should look like this:
http://sprunge.us/BaFS?c
Enjoy
Navigate Efficiently To Your Most Used Directories With Autojump
Autojump is “a cd command that learns”.
I use to visit a small number of directories on daily basis. For example, every time I want to visit my studies directory I used to type:
cd ~/Studies/Winter2009/
With autojump, I just need to type:
j Win
And hit the [tab] key (It supports auto-completion).
Send Self Reminders To Your Email From The Command Line
The following will allow you to send self reminders/TODO items to your Email at a specific time.
For example, if you want to remind yourself to submit an assignment at 15:20, you’ll be able to run this command to do it:
tdr “submit assignment” 15:20
This will send an Email to you, with the subject: [TODO] submit assignment. Email will be sent at 15:20.
To be able to do this, you migh need to configure your mail command (see my post about this).
Then, add this function to your ~/.bashrc file (or any file sources in bashrc):
Google’s Tip Jar
A (new?) service by google, which is a part of Google Moderator, is the “Tip Jar”.
“Tip Jar” is a collection of tips, submitted by the users, and categorized into different categories: Home, Work, Tech, Finance etc…
Users can submit new tips, and vote for tips submitted by others. The tips are displayed according to their popularity (which might be bad for new tips, since it will be harder to discover them).
Anyway, it looks like a nice service by Google, and another step towards making information available for everybody (who can afford a PC and internet connection).
Check it here.
Using Find Command to Find & Manipulate Files
The “find” command is a powerful command, which lets one search for files according to many criteria.
Below are a few examples. I found them here. In this post I just trimmed some of the text of the original post in order to have a quick reference without much explanations.
Go Up As Much Directory Levels As You Need – Easily
This neat and brilliant script by shell-fu allows you to go up as many directory levels as you want.
For example, instead of typing
cd ../../../..
You’ll be able to type the following and get the same functionality:
cd .. 4
Using Gmail to Fight Chain Mails
I’ve already talked in a previous post about how chain mails drive me mad.
Now it’s time to take action, using Gmail’s powerful feature.
One thing one can do, is using Gmail filters to identify chain mails according to the mail’s subject (Which will be typically “Fw:Fw something” or similar), and archive/delete/label this message. But, this is not aggressive enough. Here is another action one can take using another powerful Gmail feature (currently a “Labs” feature).
About Me
Hi,
My name is Amir Watad. I have a BSc. in biomedical engineering from The Biomedical Engineering school , Technion , Israel, and am currently studying for a BSc. in electrical engineering at The Electrical Engineering school , Technion , Israel.
I work at the verification dept. in Mellanox Technologies Ltd.
I love Linux, the Command Line and the OpenSource Community.
I used to write Poems (Arabic) when I was able to find time for this.
My name is Amir Watad. I have a BSc. in biomedical engineering from The Biomedical Engineering school , Technion , Israel, and am currently studying for a BSc. in electrical engineering at The Electrical Engineering school , Technion , Israel.
I work at the verification dept. in Mellanox Technologies Ltd.
I love Linux, the Command Line and the OpenSource Community.
I used to write Poems (Arabic) when I was able to find time for this.
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