Christian Zuckschwerdt

A new version of the audio repair tool MP3 Scan+Repair (release 1.1) is available now. This utility (named MP3 Validator for OS X during the beta phase) will check and repair your MP3 audio files.

The audio repair tool MP3 Scan+Repair release 1.0 is available now. This utility (named MP3 Validator for OS X during the beta phase) will check and repair your MP3 audio files.

This is the old build of OpenOBEX and ObexFTP for win32.
There will be an updated build once OpenOBEX 1.6 and the related ObexFTP release are done.

The Drupal 6 port of RSS Remote Enclosure is in CVS now. It’s released as feature complete and stable 6.x-1.0 download.

ObexFS release 0.12 adds an option to select the source device (hci) for bluetooth. You can select the local device by name (“hci1”) or bt address.

See announcement on Freshmeat page. Download at Sourceforge. Changes and tree at Github repository.

In the past month quite a number of people contacted me about bulk sending files using OBEX. Bluetooth spamming, bluntly put.

Common goals are mostly:

• small, cheap, low-power, wifi-enabled
• bulk sending, largely in parallel

Here are a few tips on that.

How do you create folder backup archives and limit the size by rotating old ones out? A common task and there are plenty of solutions. This is more or less the poor man's solution I'm running from cron.

Do you want to monitor some door? Get notified when it opens/closes? This is low-tech solution for the trusty old parallel port.

Check and repair your MP3 audio files. Some of your audio players might be picky or play choppy sound. Scan and fix all your MP3 files for best performance! And it’s free, too!

Drupal’s menu system is really flexible and the menu blocks are versatile. Also there are a couple of 3rd party modules to display menus in all kinds of different ways.

Here is a quick PHP snippet to display a single level menu from Drupal…