Archive for the ‘Software’ Category
I found a neat little Mac program called Frizzix which connects to a FritzBox! Fon and monitors it for incoming and outgoing calls. It supports Growl notifications, and it does reverse phone number lookup for numbers I don't have in my address book.
The call history function is very useful: thanks to the reverse phone-number lookup, [...]
A FRITZ!Box Fon WLAN 7270 has a built-in telephone directory which is maintained via a Web interface, from which I can create, edit, remove and backup telephone directory entries used by attached DECT phones.
That is all fine and dandy, but I want to be able to populate that directory from existing an existing database, and [...]
Content translation: nice.
I hate computers: confessions of a sysadmin:
the damned computers get in the way of all the things the computers help us do. There’s this whole artificial paradigm about administrator accounts, and security, and permissions, and all other manner of things that people don’t care about. A host of ancillary software is required just to keep [...]
Having recently bought a USB headset to replace the lousy thing I had before, I wanted a quick way to switch the Mac’s audio output between the display output and the headset.
SoundSource is a handy system-wide menu bar for that.
I wanted something a bit more comfortable than mv to rename a large number of directories with funny names in them. (No, shell meta-characters wouldn't help, so I couldn't do it programatically.) I built ded, the directory editor, a pretty useful tool for doing just that and a lot more.
ded is a vi-like tool to [...]
The talk that most amused me at the UKUUG Spring 2010 conference was about libferris — a virtual file system (FS) which runs in the user address space. The talk was presented by libferris' creator, Dr. Ben Martin who travelled all the way from Australia to speak at the conference.
I had a short look at [...]
The NanoBSD article I submitted a few weeks ago will appear on page 146 of issue 05/2010 of ix magazine.
A bit of stuff was chopped out, particularly details on the PC Engines' series of ALIX boards. One thing I particularly miss in the article (although I realize the magazine needs to watch for space wasting) [...]