- BBC iplayer download script, written in perl. Works on linux and windows and supports radio programmes, including converting realaudio to mp3.
- Road trip photo ideas
- Also promises improved performance.
Wednesday, December 24, 2008
2008-12-23 links
Saturday, December 20, 2008
2008-12-19 links
- pAn Adobe AIR app that allows downloading BBC programmes on linux. Shame playback speed is a bit pants!
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
Friday, December 12, 2008
2008-12-11 links
- "in order for Mozilla to be relevant in the smartphone space we need to have a presence on the Symbian platform. We have worked with Symbian to understand and scope the size of the project and Symbian are supporting this with engineers to start working on this project so far."
- I don't expect this to ever be offered to UK mobile numbers!
- Use GCC 4 instead of 3.4 for compiling symbian binaries (might be useful if you don't have access to ARM RVCT).
Thursday, December 11, 2008
2008-12-10 links
- A new plugin that allows browsers to run x86 code. Portable binaroes are created with a customised GCC and are run with an npapi plugin.
- better coverage than some mobile networks!
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
2008-12-09 links
- "GNUnet is a framework for secure peer-to-peer networking. The primary application implemented within the GNUnet framework is anonymous censorship-resistant file-sharing. "
- "NITdroid is a kernel and userspace port from scratch of the Google Android operating system to the NITs hardware. .... This project is an ongoing effort to make Android usable/useful on NIT devices (N770, N800, N810, N810W if possible)."
- "This paper describes the how Android 1.0 was first ported to Nokia's N810 Internet tablet." Written by Peter McDermott of NthCode, a consulting firm specializing in Linux device development.
- "Official Gmail Blog: New in Labs: Tasks"
Tuesday, December 09, 2008
2008-12-08 links
- A look at the protocols used by gmail video chat, including encouraging responses from google and xmpp people in the comments
Saturday, December 06, 2008
2008-11-04 links
- "Libchamplain is a C library aimed to provide a Gtk+ widget to display rasterized maps."
2008-09-16 links
- "etckeeper is a collection of tools to let /etc be stored in a git, mercurial, or bzr repository"
2008-09-01 links
- "Five alive: Danny Baker returns to national radio" - great article on Danny Baker in the Indy media section.
2008-08-19 links
- "MontaVista, Texas Instruments, Samsung, Movial, and Marvell Technologies also on board to create an open source platform" "While the platform the companies develop may be similar to the one Nokia uses in the N800, the Arm group is creating a completely open platform that it will share with the open source community"
- from the nokia (maemo) browser team
2008-08-13 links
- Blog post on attempts to integrate geolocation into mozilla
- "This extension allows you to setup your location in Firefox so that you can use geolocation enabled sites. "
2008-08-12 links
- Linux network manager - an alternative to gnome's networkmanager without any gnome dependencies.
2008-08-11 links
- "PTK is an alternative advanced interface for the suite TSK (The Sleuth Kit)."
- "open source digital investigation tools (a.k.a. digital forensic tools) that run on Unix systems"
2008-08-08 links
- LXDE homepage
- LXDE (Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment), GTK+ 2-based, "scaled-down version of GNOME."
- "PowerTOP is a Linux tool that helps you find those programs that are misbehaving while your computer is idle"
- "Fontmatrix is a GPL’d font manager for Linux"
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