Automation Adventures

Floola is a cross-platform applications to play music from your iPod on any computer. It is now up to beta 34, which adds podcast support. The only time a platform choice comes into play is when downloading the installer: there are packages for Linux, Windows (98 and up), and Mac OS X (10.2 and above).
The [...]

As mentioned earlier, an initiative is going on to get an independent artist on the number 1 spot of the iTunes Music Store.
Today is the day. So go for it!

Josh Kuo has an interesting article about giving your old Linksys a new lease on life with the OpenWRT project.
Some of the options after installing OpenWRT:

Install asterisk
VoIP
router/firewall on steroids with nmap, snort, and tcpdump
VPN with openvpn
Wireless hotspot with chilispot, FreeRadius and WPA.
All-purpose office server with DHCP, cups, lighthttpd, NTP

OpenWRT is not officially released - its [...]

When Apple TV was launched, arguably the biggest complaint was that you couldn’t record your own shows with it. Now it seems Apple is thinking about doing a HD DVR, but the limitation seems to be the internal 40Gb hard disk.
Enter the USB ports on the Apple TV. What if you could hook up an [...]

I just received notice (even though it was released March 13th…) that Miranda has done a minor upgrade from 0.6.7 to 0.6.8.
Miranda is an instant messenger with multiple protocol support, like AIM, Yahoo, MSN, and Google Talk. Version 0.6.8 has a few bug fixes for AIM, Jabber (Google), and MSN support.
If you have never used [...]