I have released version 1.120110 of gcal, a Command Line Interface to Google Calendar. It has the following enhancements:
gcal *.ics)To upgrade, simply do cpanm App::gcal. For more information, see App::gcal on the CPAN.
I have just published WWW::XBoxLive, a new Perl module to get and parse an XBox Live Gamercard (i.e. http://gamercard.xbox.com/en-US/BrazenStraw3.card).
Using it is pretty simple, as follows:
my $xbox_live = WWW::XBoxLive->new(); my $gamercard = $xbox_live->get('BrazenStraw3'); say $gamercard->name; say $gamercard->bio; for my $game (@{ $gamercard->recent_games }){ say $game->title; say $game->last_played; }
For more information, see the documentation on the CPAN, or browse the source on GitHub.
A couple of weeks ago I published gcal, a Command Line Interface to Google Calendar.
It’s quite simple. If you have a .ics file of events you want to import into your calendar, run the following:
gcal events.ical
Or, you can create an event using shorthand, like this:
gcal 'tomorrow at noon. Lunch with Bob'But first, you need to provide your credentials. Add the following to your ~/.netrc file:
machine google.com login bob password 1234
Its written in Perl, so if you already know how to install from CPAN you just need the name, App::gcal.
If not, and you are on a Mac or Linux system, just do the following to install the script:
curl -L http://cpanmin.us | perl - --sudo App::cpanminus cpanm App::gcal
If on Windows, you first need to install perl. Then something like this should work.
cpanp -i App::gcalFor more information, see:
Any issues, please let me know.
Recently I decided to digitise all my DVD’s and add them to iTunes, so I can view them on my iPad and my (soon to be purchased) Apple TV. Getting the videos off a DVD is easy with Handbrake, but iTunes has no idea what video file I have just imported, and therefore just uses its filename as the title. Not great.
So I decided to write a script that given a file would search the internet and tell iTunes what video I have imported. The result is mp4meta.
Once I have imported the video using Handbrake, I run mp4meta against the file. It then does a search on the internet and gets some metadata for the video, including the title, genre, description and cover image. It then uses AtomicParsley to write the metadata into the video file, in a format that iTunes understands. I can then import it into iTunes and it is able to store and display the video as if it was purchased from the iTunes Store.
Below are some examples of its usage.
# pass as many video as you like mp4meta film PULP_FICTION.mp4 "The Truman Show.m4v" # if there are more than one film with the same name, we can pass the year to get the correct one mp4meta film THE-ITALIAN-JOB-2003.m4v
Currently, the script only knows how to search for films. However, TV Series support is on it’s way shortly.
Firstly, you need to install AtomicParsley. Download from Sourceforge.
Then, if you are on a Mac or Linux system, just do the following to install the script:
curl -L http://cpanmin.us | perl - --sudo App::cpanminus cpanm App::MP4Meta
If on Windows, you first need to install perl. Then something like this should work.
cpanp -i App::MP4MetaFor more information, see:
Any issues, please let me know.
Now the HP TouchPad has sold out, there are up to 1 million[1] WebOS tablets in the wild. I wonder if that makes WebOS more appealing to a potential buyer?
If the buyer was able to support the TouchPad, they would already have an install base and a user community. WebOS is not far from being an excellent, modern mobile OS. After a couple of updates, the reviews from the TouchPad users might be very favourable, helping to promote WebOS and any newer devices it might appear on.
All this is assuming someone will buy WebOS and continue it, which is a big assumption…
It’s not that I can’t learn the new “natural scrolling”. But I don’t just use a Mac, and I wan’t to scroll the same way on my Mac, Linux and Windows PC’s.
Photo from Robby Mueller on Flickr.
Last weekend I completed the 2011 London to Cambridge Bike Ride in roughly 4 hours 30 mins, including a half hour stop about half way. So I guess thats an average of 15 Mph while cycling, which is pretty good 
So far, we have raised £9,977 between us, and thats before ARM make their contribution. I’m sure that money will help Breakthrough Breast Cancer continue their amazing work.
You can still make a donation by going to http://www.justgiving.com/Team-ARML2C, or texting TARM99 followed by the donation amount (1,2,3,4,5 or 10 pounds) to 70070.
We even made the Cambridge News, with this pretty cool pic.
Not sure when this was happened, but Google has removed the Chrome bookmarks folder view from Google Docs.
Its a shame. I used to use it occasionally when I was using someone else’s PC and didn’t have my bookmarks handy. No work around either.
Maybe one day Google will integrate Chrome bookmarks with its Google Bookmarks service, or maybe not…