Since I have Rockbox on a couple of my PMPs, I like to use the log scrobbler function and when I'm near my computer I can just submit my listened tracks history to Libre.fm. To do that, I use a little program called QtScrobble.
Unfortunately, there aren't any QtScrobble …
read moreSince I got my Asus eee I've been continually swapping distros, since the preinstalled Xandros wasn't cutting it. Until now I've had Ubuntu, Ubuntu-eee, eeebuntu, Mandriva, Debian... and the list could go on.
Nothing to say, all great, stable & clean distros. And then came crunchbang, with it's spinoff cruncheee. Watch …
read moreRecently I had some unvoluntary fun concerning one of my flash drives. After that I decided to encrypt a part of my Portable Apps Suite that I keep on it, mainly the web browser, Pidgin, PuTTy and WinSCP, the sensitive stuff.
Playing with TrueCrypt I observed that it is able …
read moreWow, I haven't been here in a while. Anyhow, since I'm playing quite alot with mobile phones, I needed a way to convert my podcasts to a less space consuming format. And since all of them support HE-AAC, I wrote a small wrapper script that can convert almost any format …
read moreAlthough I'm not a regular Skype user, I still employ it from time to time to do my share of VoIP. But it happens quite often that I don't get any audio from my microphone, although incoming sound works just fine and all the alsamixer switches and gains are set …
read moreThis is just an update to the script I posted a while ago over here. It works the same, has the same requirements, it's just a bit more user friendly. Refer to the original post for details, grab the script below.
#!/bin/sh if [ $# -lt 3 ]then echo Usage: $0 …read more
Just in case you have one of those pesky Motorola W490 or W510 mobile phones that can't use an mp3 file as a ringtone because your network provider doesn't want to let you do that, well, you can. And you won't have to reflash your phone just to do that …
read moreIf you have an ASUS WL-AM604G (A hardware variant) ADSL Wireless router, than you are probably accustomed to rebooting it everytime your connection fails and your ISP returns an invalid username/password error. Fortunately, the sources for this router's Linux-based firmware are available, and a group of russian modders have …
read moreHere's a little shell script I made to convert the html files in a directory to plucker format e-books:
#!/bin/sh
ORIGINAL_IFS=$IFS
IFS=$'\n'
for file in $1*.html; do
plucker-build -f $2`basename $(echo $file|sed -e "s/ /\\\ /g") .html` file:$file
done
IFS=$ORIGINAL_IFS`
You call it …
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