My Very Own Android App: Wallpaperd
This is an application that simply polls an RSS containing one item (from Interfacelift.com’s wallpaper gallery) and applies this to the Android Wallpaper. It’s an service that runs in the background and polls the feed every hour.
Source code is available here and the release binary is available here! The .apk is unsigned and from an untrusted source, but you’ll figure it out.
Updated 1.1 version now stores the pictures in sdcard/Pictures folder.
Enabling Remote Debugging via Private APIs in Mobile Safari – Nathan de Vries
“The WebKit Web Inspector in Safari & Chrome is part of every decent web developer’s toolkit, but unfortunately it’s unavailable in Mobile Safari.
Or is it?”
via Enabling Remote Debugging via Private APIs in Mobile Safari – Nathan de Vries.
This is pretty cool. Gives you the WebKit Inspector through an external web browser. Simulator only though, which is probably good enough.
You are NOT a Software Engineer!
“You are not a Software Engineer. You do not build skyscrapers. You do not build bridges.You grow gardens.You are a Software Gardener.”
GPSBabel: Tips for Geocachers
“The abilty to get pocket queries from Geocaching.com has opened new doors in planning hunts. Here we’ll try to give examples of some of the clever tricks you can play with GPSBabel.”
GPSBabel: Tips for Geocachers.
Just too bad it costs money to get the user-generated data back from geocaching.com. I would really recommend http://www.opencaching.com/.
tnefDD – Tool for extracting winmail.dat files
“tnefDD is a program for Mac OS X that extracts attachments from TNEF format files. It is built as a modern OS X application with all the ease of use features like drag-and-drop that OS X user expect, and runs on Intel- and PowerPC-based Mac computers.”
via tnefDD.
This is a great tool for extracting TNEF/winmail.dat-files that Outlook tends to pack everything inside.
Importing bookmarks from Google Chrome | How to | Firefox Support
“To import bookmarks from Google Chrome, you need to first export your Chrome bookmarks to an HTML file, then import that HTML file to Firefox.”
via Importing bookmarks from Google Chrome | How to | Firefox Support.
Homebrew — MacPorts driving you to drink? Try Homebrew!
Just wanted to take a note of this, since it’s always forgotten.
“Homebrew is the easiest and most flexible way to install the UNIX tools Apple didnt include with OS X.”
via Homebrew — MacPorts driving you to drink? Try Homebrew!.
Ksplice » Solving problems with proc – System administration and software blog
Very useful article about the proc filesystem on Linux.
“The Linux kernel exposes a wealth of information through the proc special filesystem. It’s not hard to find an encyclopedic reference about proc. In this article I’ll take a different approach: we’ll see how proc tricks can solve a number of real-world problems. All of these tricks should work on a recent Linux kernel, though some will fail on older systems like RHEL version 4.”
via Ksplice » Solving problems with proc – System administration and software blog.
Radiologger now on GitHub
Simple script for monitoring and recording radio channels with a scanner. Also an example for using Alsa for recording audio to a file while also playing the recorded audio back through the speakers at an adjustable latency.
via hnesland/Radiologger – GitHub.
This is a hobby I’ve had for a couple of years, listening in on radio transmissions on VHF/UHF with a radio scanner. The Uniden UBC3300XLT has got an RS-232 for programming and remote control. I wrote a set of python scripts to read the display and detect open channels, and then record audio with Alsa when transmissions are detected.
The first script scans the channel bank and the other scans frequency ranges to detect unknown channels. Both needs some programming on the scanner itself, namely a set of channels to scan and a range of frequencies, needs to be present before the scripts are useful.
I’ve also written some scripts to backup and restore the channel banks. They need some cleaning up, so I’ll post them later.
5 Things You Might Not Know about jQuery – OReilly Answers
“jQuery is a very powerful library, but some of its powerful features are obscure, and unless youve read the jQuery source code, or my new book jQuery Pocket Reference, you may not know about them. This article excerpts that book to describe five useful features of jQuery that you might not know about.”
via 5 Things You Might Not Know about jQuery – OReilly Answers.