Category: Perl

Home Automation with Belkin Wemo, Twilio, and Siri

December 31, 2013

Reading Time: 3 minutesUltimate Hack Mashup – Belkin Wemo + Twilio + Siri A quick note: For another home automation trick and those interested in finding out about the earlier Twillio callbox+TV popup/notification hack check out STEM (https://github.com/ericblue/STEM). Certain models of Samsung TVs allow popups for incoming phone calls for Samsung phones, but this can be extended to…
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Firefox Scrapbook Hacks – Viewing and Saving Webpages from Anywhere!

April 3, 2011

Reading Time: 4 minutesThis weekend I decided to wrap up a couple cool knowledge management “hacks” and share some code on GitHub. I primarily use the Firefox Scrapbook plugin to save all web pages of interest and use it as a general “digital snippet” repository. Since I started using Scrapbook in 2006 there have been a number of…
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Fitbit – Unofficial Perl API and CSV Download

May 11, 2010

Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe other week I received my Fitbit and have been in geek heaven ever since. Fitbit is a tiny magical device($99 USD) that automatically tracks your fitness and sleep statistics. Throughout the day it will track your calories burned, steps taken, distance traveled, your activity level, and even track your sleep patterns. All of this…
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Speedlinks Using Del.icio.us and Yahoo Pipes

June 23, 2007

Reading Time: 3 minutesLast week I started adding SpeedLinks to this blog. I’ve been looking for a good excuse to experiment with Yahoo Pipes for some time now. So, I wanted to find out if I could take the concept of the original Perl script I found, and create a pipe to do all the work (with little,…
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Zeo Personal Sleep Coach – Hacking Your Way To A Better Night’s Sleep

January 2, 2011

Reading Time: 5 minutesWhat’s a better way to kick off the New Year than by giving tips on how to improve your overall quality of sleep? I decided to write this post as a mini-review of the Zeo Personal Sleep Coach and share some open source tools and APIs to help with saving your Zeo data for your…
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MindMap Viewer: Share and Embed Mind Manager Maps Today

November 25, 2007

Reading Time: 2 minutesBackground Earlier in the year, I posted about the need for a common mind map file format. With the proliferation of the next-generation mind mapping applications (e.g. MindMeister, Mindomo, etc.), the need to import/export in a standard way and to share mindmaps easily is becoming critical. As I discussed in my earlier post, I’m a…
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Simple recursive search and replace with perl

June 25, 2006

Reading Time: < 1 minuteI recently needed to do a mass search and replace for some content on my website. I vaguely recalled doing this in the past with find, sed, and/or xargs so decided to ‘Google’. My memory was jogged when I found this example: find *.ext -type f -exec sed -i ‘s/OldText/NewText/’ {} \; and I was…
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