I recently published my first Android app, and I hope someone else finds it useful. It's a bit of niche tool, but comes to cover a missing feature of some phones.
This is a tool for those that like to know which kind of network coverage type they're under –in other words, if they're on a 2G, EDGE, 3G, etc… network–, yet their phone, like mine, doesn't display such information automatically.
It shows a status bar icon and a permanent notification identifying the network type.
It takes as little memory as possible and barely any CPU time, for those with severely limited handsets. Like me.
Unlike with my previous tools and not releasing the source code, for the time being, until I get more comfortable with Android development.
An updated version of vcs is available to download. Shame on me for the long wait since this has been pretty much completed for months.
The biggest change this time is the "blank frame avoidance" feature, with which (mostly) blank frames will not be captured, if possible, this is one of the cool features found in mtn and worth stealing 🙂
Also worth noting is the ability to load profiles automatically. E.g. adding "profiles=white,mosaic" to your ~/.vcs.conf file will use both profiles. A new profile ("compact") is added, and a list of installed profiles can be obtained with $ vcs –profile :list.
The manual page is finished too.
Of course you'll have to download and install the full package instead of just the script to get the profiles and man page installed.
Other minor additions are the identification of captures from FRAPS and of course the usual batch of fixes and scheduled changes. FreeBSD users, and hopefully Mac OS X too though I can't check, can again use the script too.
I've just published an updated nautilus-follow-symlink, in case anyone is actually using it 😛
I've finally tested this version against both GNOME 2 and GNOME 3, and I'm also providing a variant to build against MATE's Caja (MATE is a fork of GNOME 2, and Caja its fork of Nautilus).
I've also written a version for Thunar, though that one I'm not publishing just yet.
This is pretty much a final version, I started looking for alternative desktops after GNOME 3 clashed with my brain, and as a consequence I've reduced my use of Nautilus considerably. I'll try to keep n-f-s buildable, but that's about it.
You can download the updated version as usually at http://p.outlyer.net/nautilus-follow-symlink.
There's both sources and binaries for Debian Stable (i386 & ambd64) and Fedora 17 (i686).
Additionally there a binary package of caja-follow-symlink for LMDE (i386).
I haven't updated VCS in a while and somehow managed to keep this update ready but unreleased for months, so today I decided it was about time to get rid of it and be free to work on 1.13 😛
This is a minor update with a couple bugfixes, but most importantly, it marks the switch to bash 3; this means a lot of small changes to the code so you should update to 1.12.3 to test if it works correctly before I release future versions (eventually 🙂 with much more important changes.
Changes (excerpt):
Bugfix: Actually handle –ffmpeg and –mplayer [#169]
Bugfix: Correct parsing of -U [#187]
Switch to a minimum of bash 3.1 [#173]
Avoid re-capturing the same frame twice [#122]
Use getent instead of /etc/passwd when available
Bugfix/Internal: Don't use mplayer's length as a ceil for timecode removal [#174]
I've just published a new tool I named 'Relevation'.
It's a command-line tool to access the passwords stored with the excellent Revelation Password Manager, which only provides a graphical interface.
I've been using the basis of my new tool on my computers for more than 4 years now and decided I might as well release it for others to use in case anyone else is interested.
It's is written in Python and has fairly simple dependencies, so it is easy to test and requires no compilation.
Another minor update, although the last few versions have contained a really stupid bug that prevented the temporary files from being removed (leading to a lot of stale, possibly big, files), so upgrading is highly recommended. Thanks to Jason Tackaberry for pointing the bug.
Note though I'm still on holidays so this is a quick and dirty release (with little testing).
Changes:
Bugfix: Fix cleanup of temporary files (regression introduced in 1.11.2)
A very small update this time. It's only been delayed by real life stuff.
Only worth mentioning:
Workaround for cases in which GAWK uses comma as decimal separator. Many European languages use commas but only a few versions of GAWK do actually print them (and newer versions don't anymore). People encountering this bug will have certainly noticed since it results in all kinds of errors.
As with 1.11 many of the changes are pretty radical and might break but it's been working fine for me so far.
The changes are quite a few so I'll try to explain as best as I can. Documentation for the new stuff is on the way.
New in this version:
Profiles
On-demand loading of custom configuration files
Heading, footer and title based on actual font size
Configuration generation from the command-line
Relative end-offset
More reasonable command-line arguments to capture from DVD
Configuration syntax enhancements and more sensible names for settings
→ Profiles
Command-line: --profile <NAME> and -p <NAME>
Profiles allow saving a group of settings and then reusing them by using their name.
They can be saved to ~/.vcs/profiles/ or /usr/share/vcs/profiles/ as name.conf, and then invoked with a command-line like: $ vcs -p name video.avi
They can also be combined, e.g. $ vcs -p black -p mosaic video.avi
A list of available profiles can be displayed with $ vcs -p :list
The deb, rpm, arch package and tarball include some sample profiles.
→ Configuration file loading
Command-line: --config <FILE> and -C <FILE>
A lot like profiles but settings can be loaded from any file on any directory. The only extra condition is the file should contain "vcs:conf:" inside comments towards the beginning or the end of the file.
$ vcs -C /tmp/mysettings.txt video.avi
→ Configuration (and profile) generation
Command-line: --generate config
By adding --generate config to the command-line, the effective settings are printed in a format that can be saved to a configuration or profile file.
All active settings with an appropriate config setting will be printed, no matter if they come from the command-line, profiles or configurations.
Examples
$ vcs -n4 --generate config
Will produce a configuration for 4 captures and fixed number of captures:
Will merge profile "myprofile" and file myconfig.cfg, disable end-offset and print the combined settings.
Big warning
In case you aren't familiar with shell redirections, DON'T try to overwrite an existing configuration like: $ vcs [...] --generate config > myconfig.cfg
This WILL WIPE your configuration BEFORE reading it.
Side-effect
Pre-existing configurations can be "upgraded" to the new names by running without extra arguments: $ vcs --generate config
→ Relative end-offset
The end offset now accepts percentages and is 5.5% by default. It is now applied always unless disabled.
With the length detection workarounds in 1.11 and relative end offsets, the whole MIN_LENGTH_FOR_END_OFFSET nonsense is gone for good. Good riddance.
→ DVD capture
Handling of DVDs is now like that of normal files. --dvd (or -V) enable the DVD mode and take no arguments anymore:
$ vcs --dvd /dev/dvd
$ vcs --dvd --dvd-title 1 /dev/dvd
Multi-input is also accepted now:
$ vcs --dvd --dvd-title 1 --dvd-title 2 /dev/dvd /dev/dvd somedvd.iso
Will capture titles 1 and 2 from /dev/dvd, and the longest title from somedvd.iso.
DVDs and video files can't be mixed though (it's either DVD mode or no DVD mode for all input files).
→ Configuration syntax enhancements
Finally, configuration files are now easier to read and write:
— Settings are case insensitive now
— Names are easier on the brain (e.g. "height" instead of "th_height")
— Comments no longer need their own line
Also a sample configuration file is provided with all available settings for easier writing of your own if needed.
→ Dynamic heading/footer/title
In previous versions heading and title size based on font pointsize. This lead to a few rare fonts displaying cropped. Footer was a fixed size so it was even worse at that. 1.12 probes the font size and (hopefully) sizes sections accordingly. Example:
Before: 1.11.2After: 1.12
The font displayed is akaFrivolity in case you're wondering
A new small update to vcs is available to download. This should be the last update before 1.12 (which will take a while to be ready) but the massive changes in 1.11.x still need more testing so who knows.
Changes in 1.11.2:
Some Real Audio codec names (v4, v5 and v6)
Bugfix/Feature: Fallback for default font on systems that don't register fonts with ImageMagick
Bugfixes: Clean up correctly extra temporary dirs, fix for non-GNU awk (e.g. mawk)
