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Slingbox questions

Paul Westbrook | 06 July, 2005 21:44

It looks like Sling Media is shipping their Slingbox device.  This looks like a very cool way to be able to watch all of you video content outside of your house.  In fact, I think that this could replaces some of the uses of BitTorrent for video content.  (I think that BitTorrent is used when people already have access to the content at home, but they want to watch it somewhere else.)

I wonder a couple of things about the Slingbox

  • How does the setup software get the list of possible remote codes?  It doesn't look like there is a way to learn remote codes from the Slingbox itself.  Maybe they have a database that is similar to the one used by Harmony Remotes.
  • Would it be possible to learn IR codes from multiple devices?  For example, plug a AV switcher into the Slingbox, and use remote codes for the AV switcher to change video source, and then send commands for that device.

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Technorati Tags

Paul Westbrook | 06 July, 2005 21:14

I have just started playing with Technorati Tags, since ecto has built in support for them.  I can see two uses for tags that are not currently handled by the categories:

  1. Allow you to catagorize your posts more specifylcy
  2. Creates a link to other posts on the same topic

Ecto's implementation adds a link to the bottom of the post with links to the Technotati Tags page.
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TextWrangler

Paul Westbrook | 06 July, 2005 20:06

TextwranglerI saw this post on TUAW about TextWrangler.  It is a free text editor from Bare Bones Software that has some very cool features.

  • grep search and replace
  • syntax coloring
  • integration with native perl
  • built-in ftp/sftp client
  • AppleScript support
  • command line tools

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Acronym script

Paul Westbrook | 06 July, 2005 19:30

This post has a pretty cool python script that will automatically add <acronym> tags to acronyms or abbreviations in the body of ecto posts.

For example: JPEG

[via ecto blog]

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