Category Archives: Ruby

Place shifting action 3: Revenge of the Sith

3/20/2008 – 1:40 pm

Previously I put out an early version of my ruby based command line oriented tivo download script.
I’ve had a patch from MARK NOTARUS to make the menu have some more options and I’m using Console::ProgressBar from facets now.
It works well enough for my needs, but let me know if you hit any roadblocks. Just [...]

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Place shifting action 2

11/15/2007 – 5:50 pm

I’ve been working on a command-line oriented TiVo2Go downloader so I can automate getting items off my tivo, or at least do it when I’m on the road via ssh (and then kick off that other script…)  I’ve written a quick and dirty TiVo library, and a sample script called TiVo2Disk which uses the library.
On [...]

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Place shifting action

11/15/2007 – 5:07 pm

I’ve whipped up a quick ruby script that wraps ffmpeg to turn anything ffmpeg understand into something suitable for watching on an iPhone. It’ll work for a normal iPod too, probably, but I’ve got it fully keyed to the resolution of the iPhone.
Download it and check it out.
(Fear my non-twitter content!)

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fortune for xscreensaver for OS X

10/31/2006 – 11:32 am

I love that jwz ported XScreenSaver to OS X at about the same time I moved to OS X for my laptop.  I got to keep all the screen savers I use and have used over the past decade or so.  Especially some of the cooler GL based ones.  (Its also nice that [...]

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