Florent Thoumie » Iphone http://blog.xbsd.org Geek stuff follows Fri, 25 Jun 2010 09:01:01 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 iPhone, Twitter and Push Notifications http://blog.xbsd.org/2010/04/09/iphone-twitter-and-push-notifications http://blog.xbsd.org/2010/04/09/iphone-twitter-and-push-notifications#comments Fri, 09 Apr 2010 11:15:31 +0000 Florent Thoumie http://blog.xbsd.org/?p=303 Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> So, everybody’s raving about the upcoming iPhone OS 4.0, me included, but that’s not what this post is about.

A few months ago I got tired of not having push notifications in Twittelator Pro and then I realized that since I had Prowl installed on my phone, there was absolutely nothing stopping me from pushing the notifications myself. After writing my own Twitter watch shell script and having used it for quite some time now, I present you: twatch.sh!

To use, just make sure you have prowl.pl and curl installed in /usr/local/bin (or adjust the paths) and create a ~/.twatch.rc containing login=”yourlogin” and password=”yourpass”. Also you need to have a ~/.prowl file containing your prowl API key.

The first time you use it will push the last few mentions. Now you just have to add it to your crontab. Tada!

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]]> http://blog.xbsd.org/2010/04/09/iphone-twitter-and-push-notifications/feed 0 Prowl is full of awesome http://blog.xbsd.org/2009/07/24/prowl-is-full-of-awesome http://blog.xbsd.org/2009/07/24/prowl-is-full-of-awesome#comments Fri, 24 Jul 2009 14:29:10 +0000 Florent Thoumie http://blog.xbsd.org/?p=253 Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> I read about prowl a few weeks ago, and quickly dismissed it as I believed it required growl sending him the alerts. Actually it doesn’t!

Here’s the description from the website:


Prowl is a Growl client for the iPhone. Notifications from your Mac (or even Windows! see the FAQ) can be sent to your iPhone over push, with a full range of customization and grace you expect.

Just go the the prowl website, create your account, log in, go to settings and generate your API key. Once you’re done, download the prowl client for iPhone (2.79E if I remember correctly) and start it once, it will register your phone on the website.

Now, download the CLI client here (not yet in ports) and start playing around!

Here are a few things you can do with prowl already: receive Nagios alerts, know when somebody’s talking to you on irssi, ...

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]]> http://blog.xbsd.org/2009/07/24/prowl-is-full-of-awesome/feed 0 Hacking youtube videos for iPhun (and profit) http://blog.xbsd.org/2009/05/07/hacking-youtube-videos-for-iphun-and-profit http://blog.xbsd.org/2009/05/07/hacking-youtube-videos-for-iphun-and-profit#comments Thu, 07 May 2009 10:24:06 +0000 Florent Thoumie http://blog.xbsd.org/?p=213 Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> If you’re not an iPhone owner, then you’re probably not going to be interested by this post. If you don’t like custom ringtones then you’re definitely not going to be interested by this post. If you’re still reading, I’ll explain you quickly how to convert youtube videos to iphone ringtones.

This is basically going to be a quick walkthrough rather than a long explanation. Basically you need a way to download the youtube video (like youtube-dl) and ffmpeg compiled with faac support.

For FreeBSD users, this is as simple as installing the two ports: net/youtube_dl and multimedia/ffmpeg (make sure to run ‘make config’ and check that FAAC is on). For MacOS X users, the easiest way will be to download youtube-dl to your home directory (and put it in /usr/local/bin if you wish) and install ffmpeg following these instructions. Windows users can install iRinger (haven’t tried it but it looks quite nifty).

Ok, now for the actual information (this is actually pretty easy).

First, find a video you like (in my case, Bird is the word in Family Guy) and download it.

$ youtube-dl 'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WNrx2jq184'

Then drop the video part and convert the MPEG stream to AAC.

$ ffmpeg -i 2WNrx2jq184.flv -f ipod -vn birdistheword.m4r

Alright, that’s it! Wait, I want to get rid of the first few seconds and the last few seconds as well. Let’s just play it in mplayer (or QuickTime, or iTunes) and find the offset (-ss option) then the length (-t option). The -y option is to force overwrite the output file.

$ ffmpeg -i 2WNrx2jq184.flv -f ipod -vn -ss 28.6 -t 44.2 -y birdistheword.m4r

Once this is finished, just send the ringtone to the iPhone, either using scp if your iphone is jailbroken (put it in /Library/Ringtones/) or via iTunes (just drag and drop it in Ringtones, then sync the iPhone). Enjoy!

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]]> http://blog.xbsd.org/2009/05/07/hacking-youtube-videos-for-iphun-and-profit/feed 2 Simple, yet awesome http://blog.xbsd.org/2008/08/11/simple-yet-awesome http://blog.xbsd.org/2008/08/11/simple-yet-awesome#comments Mon, 11 Aug 2008 12:22:31 +0000 Florent Thoumie http://blog.thoumie.net/?p=32 Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> Neglected iPhone irish users can rejoyce, as there’s now a native iPhone app to send texts through the O2/Meteor websites!

Source: vinnycoyne.com

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