Category: Tools

  • Audioscrobbler – track what you’re listening to right now

    Welcome to Audioscrobbler. Audioscrobbler builds a profile of your musical taste using a plugin for your media player (Winamp, iTunes, XMMS etc..). Plugins send the name of every song you play to the Audioscrobbler server, which updates your musical profile with the new song. Every person with a plugin has their own page on this…

  • CleanSoftware.org – Free software, no nasties!

    Looks like a really nice site featuring clean and free software for Windows. Cool to see that when I use Windows I use many of the programs on this list, although I may have to give a few new ones a try. CleanSoftware.org – Free software, no nasties! CleanSoftware.org – Free software, no nasties! Categories…

  • HOWTO: How to record a streaming .ram file to .mp3 using OS X

    Introduction The other day I was trying to figure out how to get the audio-recorded version of the Christian Science Bible Lesson onto my shiny new iPod photo. The iPod likes .mp3 or .aac files. It does not include any way to save out a Real Player audio stream in .ram or .rm format and…

  • Free antivirus – Grisoft AVG for personal use

    Uninstalled Norton (expired subscription) and installed this free replacement… giving it a try. Grisoft Freeweb: Get AVG for your home PC virus protection Get AVG for your home PC virus protection AVG Free Edition is the well-known anti-virus protection tool. AVG Free is available free-of-charge to home users for the life of the product! Rapid…

  • howto rsync current directory with remote server over ssh

    This will upload the new files using SSH from the current directory and synchronize with the remote directory public_html on HOST, pushing only the new or changed files. rsync -rvC –rsh=”ssh -l SSH_USERNAME” * HOST:public_html/ mmmm, tasty rsync. my new best friend. even better than scp, I think. From man rsync: -C, –cvs-exclude This is…

  • Audio Recorder 1.4 – VersionTracker:

    Audio Recorder 1.4 – VersionTracker: Product Description: Record from the default input device selected in the Sound preference panel Save directly to an MP3 or AIFF file AppleScript support MP3 encoding with LAME AIFF encoding with LibSndFile Japanese localization by tai (tai@tekapo.com) French localization by Steve Hammond Really nice, small audio recording app. (Via BoingBoing). Link…

  • Gravatar – Globally Recognized Avatar

    I saw these on Chris Davis’s site (see example in the comments: New Plugin) and they look pretty cool. Gravatar – Globally Recognized Avatar What is a gravatar? A gravatar, or globally recognized avatar, is quite simply an 80×80 pixel avatar image that follows you from weblog to weblog appearing beside your name when you…

  • Convert Real Player and WMV into AVI then join and encode into new WMV file using Real7ime Converter, Stoik, VirtualDub and Windows Media Encoder

    I was working on a project and needed to combine a Real Player clip together with a Windows Media Player clip into a new WMV file. I was able to use the following software (all free to download and use) to tackle each part. 1) To convert Real Player video to AVI format: Real7ime Converter…

  • Theme Development – Codex

    Theme Development – Codex Introduction The next version of WordPress will have support for user-defined themes built in. Until now, WordPress used index.php and the comment files in conjunction with a CSS stylesheet to control the way it presented the content when published. All other pages, including the category and archive pages, were actually generated…

  • Blog Torrent – Simplified bittorrent by Downhill Battle

    Blog Torrent – Simplified bittorrent by Downhill Battle What is Blog Torrent? Blog Torrent is software that makes it much easier to share and download files using the bittorrent protocol. Blog Torrent is easy to install on your website: we don’t use MySQL so installation is as easy as uploading a folder to your web…

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