Read the rest of this entry »Would you like to monitor your monthly Videotron Internet quota easily? Use either my Mac Dashboard widget, or my Google Chrome Extension.
Archive for the ‘Open Source’ Category
Videotron Internet Usage Monitor
Wednesday, March 30th, 2011Chrome Extension – Get comments in RSS format
Tuesday, March 29th, 2011Read the rest of this entry »So you got a nice Google Chrome extension, right?
And people do leave comments / questions / hate mail on the extension page all the time.
Here’s how to receive those in your RSS reader.
Greyhole Roadmap – version 0.9
Sunday, December 12th, 2010Read the rest of this entry »WIth 0.8 just out the door, I began thinking about 0.9.
That version will focus on fixing Greyhole’s greatest bug creator: the rename operation!
Greyhole 0.8 & Samba module
Sunday, December 12th, 2010Read the rest of this entry »I just built and uploaded version 0.8 of Greyhole on Google Code.
This version doesn’t change much of what is normally visible to the end users (except the regular bugfixes). Instead, 0.8 focused on improving an area of Greyhole that has always been messy: the communication channel between Samba and the Greyhole daemon.
Greyhole new website
Sunday, December 12th, 2010Read the rest of this entry »This week, I created a new website for Greyhole.
This website centralize all the information one could want about Greyhole.
Fuel Consumption Tracker
Monday, June 14th, 2010Read the rest of this entry »I wanted to keep track of fuel consumption (L/100km) for our two vehicles. I wanted to be able to send email to enter data, or use a simple web interface. The email part was important, because I don’t have a data plan on my cellphone, so being able to compose and queue an email at the pump, to have it sent automatically when I was later within reach of a known Wifi network, was a very nice to have.
Implemented in PHP, the result is not that pretty, but it’s nice enough, and the ease of use allows me to keep it updated without too much hassle.
Hacking Crome extensions – How I added keyboard shortcuts to 1Password in Chrome
Friday, May 14th, 2010Read the rest of this entry »I love 1Password. It looks good, it’s safe, it has a web-accessible UI, it has an iPhone/iPad application…
What I didn’t like about it was it’s Chrome extension, which required me to use the mouse to click the 1Password icon in the toolbar each time I wanted to auto-fill a form with login details!! That was so annoying.
So annoying in fact that I took upon myself to implement keyboard shortcuts in the 1Password extensions.
Videos5 – A web application to stream videos to your iPad (and all)
Wednesday, May 12th, 2010Read the rest of this entry »The iPad is now very popular in the house.
I seldom can use it as a recipe book to cook something, as it was intended… It’s either in my oldest’s hands, playing Labyrinth 2 HD, either on my wife’s lap, browsing her Facebook & reading her emails.But still, sometimes, it’s nice to use it for other things.
One such other thing would be to stream videos from the Amahi home server sitting in a closet upstairs.
One can watch a recorded TV show in bed, or hand the iPad to the big kid to let him watch Cars or Nemo while we’re watching the news, or something non kid-friendly.Being of the DIY kind, I made my own web-app to achieve this, using the new HTML5 videos tag.
Greyhole: How cool is that?
Saturday, March 27th, 2010Read the rest of this entry »Not long ago, a 1 TB hard drive that was part of my storage pool died (my fault really, handling it while it was powered up). Greyhole handled this beautifully, re-creating duplicate copies of the files that were stored on that drive to continue protecting all my data. But I didn’t have enough free space on the other drives to allow all the duplicates I want to be created.
Perfect timing to test a very nice feature of Greyhole: inclusion of remote hard drives in the storage pool.
Mac Widget: Vidéotron Internet Usage Monitor
Saturday, January 30th, 2010Read the rest of this entry »Having received earlier this week a letter from Vidéotron, my ISP, about my account getting capped at 100GB monthly in the upcoming months, I decided I needed an easy way to monitor my monthly bandwidth usage. A Dashboard widget was a good fit.
