Mumbling Again

Share Your EyeTV Archive - v1.2

When I posted my original shell script to make a folder of links to your EyeTV recordings with human-readable names, it caught on faster then I expected. I made no real effort to promote it, but soon my referrer logs showed it had been posted on the CenterStage message board and the AV Science Forum. The only explanation is someone found my comment here. Since at least a few people found the script useful too, I was motivated to rewrite it in perl. I had been meaning to do this for a while, and I knew I should have done it with perl in the first place. Plus, I fixed a bug where two recordings of the same show on the same day would only link the latter. (Thanks Jan!)

My Roommate Danielhoff

In the interest of suspense....

Nikon Encrypts White Balance in RAW Format

I've really been looking forward to buying a pro-grade digital SLR from Nikon as soon as they upgrade the number of mega-pixels. I own a Nikon FM2 which would be able to share lenses, and this was my justification for getting another Nikon instead of a Canon Digital Rebel.

However, I'm seriously reconsidering my options now, and it may even lead to me jumping the fence to go all Canon. I read over at Engadget and Slashdot that in a bizarre paranoid move Nikon has begun to encrypt the white balance data in RAW format photo taken by their high-end digital SLR camera. This really gets me heated and I'm having flash backs of my turning point with Verizon.

Get Free Music Through iTunes

I just found this over at Mac OS X Hints thanks to slytle and momerath. Apple gives away some free music each month to new iPod owners, and even if you already own an iPod—or never owned an iPod—you can find a link to the free music sampler through this google search. You'll want to use the search result that contains phobos.apple.com in the URL. This link will open the iTunes Music Store to the place where you can get the free tracks. It changes every month or something so check the search again in the future.

Download a Web Gallery with wget

Ok, let's skip the obvious jokes about downloading pr0n. People look at galleries of photos that their friends upload on the web too. If you want to download the entire gallery it can be tedious and time consuming. Enter wget—a great and free application that will allow you to download files off the web in an automated process. Give it a list of things to download and it will return a directory full of the files you wanted. The following tutorial covers two parts: Using a perl filter to extract the image paths from a web gallery and downloading the images with wget.