Sick Beard is a (terribly, terribly named) application that downloads TV episodes from newsgroups—as opposed to BitTorrent—moves and renames them, and even fetches artwork and episode information (.NFO files) for use with XBMC. If, for any reason, you want to avoid BitTorrent and go with newsgroups instead, go aheard and install SABnzb+ for downloading purposes, [...]
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I bought a Kindle 2 last month and joined the e-book revolution. I love e-books for various, practical reasons:
1. Books pile up around the house. I don’t have room to keep all of them. Selling, training, giving, or donating them is a pain. Throwing out books makes me sad.
2. Books deteriorate. I typically purchase used books, and [...]
TVNamer is a Python application that will automatically renames TV episode files to a clean, consistent, and useful format. If you rip your DVDs, or download torrents (for shame!) on your server, you might find the “tvnamer” Python script very useful. I am running this on my Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx server right now, and [...]
When I read posts on LifeHacker and Gizmodo sometimes, I figure that everybody else in the world is downloading TV episodes via BitTorrent, and doing it using RSS feeds and an automated process. That can’t possibly be true, but I figured that if other people do this, I should be able to figure out how, [...]
I don’t have anything to add that hasn’t already been said about Dropbox, but I have to say that it is great, and that I recommend it to everybody. Dropbox is the easiest way I’ve found to share files between my home computers (Mac and Linux) and my work PC (Windows XP).
Dropbox gives you a [...]
Over the course of the year, I developed a serious podcast-listening habit at work. I find them useful for keeping abreast of my favorite topics of interest, including technology, the arts, and business, without taking my eyes off my work. I used iTunes as my podcatcher, mostly because it is my go-to media management app. [...]
