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Find and Replace in AppleScript

Paul Westbrook | 30 May, 2005 12:10

Since AppleScript doesn't have a built in capability for encoding or decoding HTML entities, or even a search a replace capability, I went looking for some sample code that does a search and replace. This page has a good example of how to do this.

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Updated Post Trackbacks applescript

Paul Westbrook | 30 May, 2005 12:04

I have updated the Post Trackbacks AppleScript. It looks like ecto now html encodes the urls when using the link tool (which is the correct thing to do). Now the script correctly parses the urls out of the body text, and it un-htmlencodes the url before calling curl.

You can download the script here.

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Gaming headset

Paul Westbrook | 28 May, 2005 19:52

Tritton has come out with surround sound headphones, that include a built-in microphone. These headphones have four drivers in each of ear pieces, used to give the surround sound effect. These look like they would be good for online games.

Unfortunately, these only have a USB interface, so they require a Windows driver installed in order to use them. I would love to see one of these compatible with the PlayStation 2. When I play SOCOM II, I usually wear headphones on top of the headset, so I don't wake the kids or my wife up. This gets pretty uncomfortable after a while. I would love it if someone would make a headphone that integrated a microphone. Then the cable would have two ends. One with a headphone plug to connect to the main sound source, and then another mini jack plug to connect to the headset port.

[via Engadget]

Bluefish

Paul Westbrook | 28 May, 2005 19:40

In the May 2005 issue of Linux Pro Magazine there was a review of the Bluefish HTML editor. I downloaded it through fink to try it out. It looks like a pretty good program to edit html. It looks better than Mozilla or emacs, which is what I have been using.

Flexible screen kit

Paul Westbrook | 27 May, 2005 15:30

When we moved into our house, the screen on the back door had some holes in it, so I knew that I wanted to replace it. I decided to purchase the flexible screen kit. I was thinking that this would help keep the screen from popping out and the screen door on the track, when the kids started pushing on it.

The screen never did get popped out of the door, but the door seemed pretty unstable, and was falling off the track. Also the screen was pretty dark, so it was hard to seen in and out through the screen. After about 3 years of use, some holes started to appear, I decided to just go to Home Depot and pick up a standard screen.
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Free PSP

Paul Westbrook | 27 May, 2005 13:28

Since I actually received a free iPod Shuffle, I decided to try to get a free PSP. If you are interested in getting one of these, then check out this site. Also, FreeStuff-IHMC has a good site that helps you get your items faster.

iPod Shuffle review

Paul Westbrook | 27 May, 2005 13:16

I finally had a chance to use the iPod Shuffle. I had to fly to Philadelphia this week, so the iPod Shuffle was great to use on the plane. There was a problem though. After about 3 hours into the 5½ hour flight the headphones started to hurt. I am thinking about buying the Apple In-Ear Headphones. They seems like they would be more comfortable.

The other thing that I would like to see is the ability to rate tracks on the iPod Shuffle itself. Apple is marketing this as a device where a random sample of your music gets added to the iPod Shuffle. Then you play it in a random order. Since everyone probably has music in their collection that don't like as much, there will be some songs they don't want to listen to, it would great if you could do something on the iPod that would help to train the AutoFill random selection.

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pLog 1.0.1

Paul Westbrook | 24 May, 2005 15:10

pLog 1.0.1 has been released and includes some new features and bug fixes. It can be downloaded from http://www.plogworld.net

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BitTorrent 4.1.0

Paul Westbrook | 24 May, 2005 15:08

Version 4.1.0 of the official BitTorrent client has been released. This version has support for trackerless torrents. This allows you to download files, even when the centralized tracker is not available. Also this is helpful for people publishing content, when they are not able to run a tracker.

After I upgraded the rpm, I neede to make two changes in order to get this to work for me.
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Podcast support in pLog

Paul Westbrook | 23 May, 2005 20:38

The upcoming version 1.0.1 of pLog will have built-in support for podcasting. Now audio files included as resources will be added as enclosures in the posts in the rss feed.

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Podcasting reading with Shrook

Paul Westbrook | 23 May, 2005 15:59

The latest version of Shrook now has integrated podcast support. Now you can download your audio podcasts directly into iTunes from within Shrook. It doesn't only handle audio enclosures, but handles any type of enclosures like video or torrent files.

Threre are two features that I would like to see:

Automatically changing the genre of the auto tracks that are added to iTunes.
Create a playlist in iTunes where all audio tracks are added.

Threat to television

Paul Westbrook | 23 May, 2005 15:49

Mark Pesce delivers a good speech on the threat the the television industry has with piracy. He also gives good suggestions on how the television industry can still make money. Here is a torrent, where it is available.

[via Mostly Muppet Dot Com]

memory leak in apache

Paul Westbrook | 21 May, 2005 19:31

I think that the server problem that I mentioned before is a memory leak in apache. When I restart apache, each of the worker threads take up a certain amount of memory. Then I make a request to a simple php script, and then the resident memory has increased after.

The simple script that I am using is:

<?php
 
phpinfo();
?>

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more blog scraping

Paul Westbrook | 18 May, 2005 20:31

This is really annoying. I noticed today that I had a new site that linked to my blog, according to Technorati. I think that they picked my blog because I had a post that talked about light bulbs, and I guess that they are selling light bulbs.

But they are posting the articles that I have written on their site. They are not doing this automatically, since their blog is running on Blogger. They do have links to my blog, but the posts say that they are posted by "Ron".

They don't have any AdSense or any other ads on this page, so they are not trying to get direct revenue from the content. But since this page does link to the page that actually sells the light bulbs, I think that they are trying increase their PageRank.
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moblogging in pLog

Paul Westbrook | 18 May, 2005 19:38

This is very cool. Some one wrote a moblog plugin for pLog. Now you can create posts and upload images from a cell phone or from any email client.

This page has information on how to set this up.

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