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mt-daapd should understand rhythmbox database

ryan — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 11:43:34 +0000

mt-daapd, also known as "Firefly Media Server" is super-excellent. It's a daemon that lets me share my music over the itunes sharing protocol. Having it as a daemon is a good move, I think, because it can be serving regardless of whether I happen to be running rhythmbox at that time.

Also, it lets me have a machine that lets me serve my music and does little else. There's no reason to marry the serving of music with a GUI.

Further Gnome Command-Line Integration

ryan — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 01:03:41 +0000

In a previous post, I talked about my command-line program that opens files in the same manner as gnome would if you had double-clicked it in nautilus.
I have another piece of integration that I'd like to see: Clipboard integration.

The Problem

I'm always editing text files in vim, or viewing them in less, in a terminal window. Sometimes, though, I want to take that file and copy it to the clipboard so that I can paste it into, say, a textarea in my web browser.

Converting Word Files From The Command Line

ryan — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 03:09:03 +0000

Imagine how convenient it would be if you could convert between different document formats from the command-line. You could take that word document and turn it into HTML. You could print out some HTML and have a link on your page saying "Download this as a word document". You could have your email program automatically convert Word documents into OpenOffice documents.

Text Reader for RockBox

ryan — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 11:10:58 +0000

Unlike most people, I seem to be able to both stand and understand computer-generated speech. I've had the computer read stories to me, and I've enjoyed those stories. One thing I've always found lacking, though, was the ability to pause, rewind, fast forward, and bookmark. I mean, come on, I'm not always going to be able to read every word of that short-story in one sitting, without going to the bathroom, getting a drink of water, or whatever. Even a pause feature would be useful.