Read 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.
Archive for the ‘Open Source’ Category
Mac Widget: Vidéotron Internet Usage Monitor
Saturday, January 30th, 2010Greyhole – Easily expandable & redundant storage pool using Samba
Wednesday, December 16th, 2009Read the rest of this entry »Greyhole is an application that uses Samba to create a storage pool of all your available hard drives (whatever their size, however they’re connected), and allows you to create redundant copies of the files you store, in order to prevent data loss when part of your hardware fails.
How I plan to implement my own WHS Drive Extender-like system [UPDATED]
Sunday, November 29th, 2009Read the rest of this entry »I do like Windows Home Server Drive Extender technology. It allows oneself to aggregate a bunch of various-sized hard disks into one big storage pool. You can then define a number of shares that will share (!) that storage pool dynamically. And you can define which shares you want duplicated, which basically mean that DE (Drive Extender) will make sure that all the files on there are on two different physical hard drives, to safeguard those files against hardware failures.
I’ve been searching for quite a while to find a similar system that would fit my needs, and never found one. Then yesterday, I had an idea on how I could implement such a system myself.
TV Forecast widget not working? Here’s how to fix it.
Thursday, March 5th, 2009Read the rest of this entry »TV Forecast is a nice widget that Matt Comi created. You tell it what TV shows you watch, and it will keep track of the upcoming episodes for those shows.
The only down side to that widget is that it data-scrape TV.com to get its data.
Not only is this illegal, but it also tends to break the widget every time TV.com change their layout in any way.Getting tired of that, I decided to open the widget’s code, and change the data source to something more stable: TheTVDB.com
Facebook application: Import Gallery pictures into Facebook
Friday, June 22nd, 2007Read the rest of this entry »The result is now a nice Facebook application which seems to work just fine for most people who tried it:
Gallery Import application on FacebookNow when I want to import Gallery pictures into Facebook, I’m just a few clicks away!
GobbleRSS – PDA-friendly web-based RSS reader
Tuesday, June 19th, 2007Read the rest of this entry »After I finished reading my latest book, which is what I usually do during my daily commuting to and from work, I started looking for a way to read my RSS feeds on a Palm device during that time. First, a friend of mine lent me his Palm Zire 31 (thanks!). Next, I started looking for a way to get unread RSS items from Google Reader into the Palm device. I was pretty happy with Google Reader itself, since I could read news at home, or at work (and soon enough, between the two) and not have to deal with duplicates etc. Using a desktop client would have been much more complicated, especially since I use a Mac at home, and a Windows PC at work. So, after looking for a while for a Google Reader API, or some other ways to download unread RSS items from Google Reader, I gave up.
I then started to implement my own Google Reader, which I dubbed GRC – Google Reader Clone.
