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November 12, 2004

movies on iPod Photo

HOW-TO: Play “movies” on an iPod Photo - Engadget - www.engadget.com

November 11, 2004

Control iTunes on Web browser (Win32)

So here’s a script for Win32 ActivePerl to control local iTunes on your favourite Web browser: itunesctrl.pl. Since Apache with CGI seems to have some difficulties using COM due to security problems, it runs as a standalone web server using HTTP::Daemon.

November 10, 2004

Gmail offers free POP3 access

[Gmail offers free POPs CNET News.com](http://news.com.com/Gmail%20offers%20free%20POPs/2110-1038_3-5446901.html?part=rss&tag=5446901&subj=news.1038.5)

November 05, 2004

Bloglines Updates

[Bloglines News](http://www.bloglines.com/about/news#72)

November 05, 2004

Hacking iPod and iTunes

O’Reilly released HTML version of sample hacks from upcoming new book iPod & iTunes Hacks. Available hacks all seem to be deep and thus interesting. I can’t wait to get its copy of mine, and translate it into Japanese!

November 05, 2004

use Perl; to TypePad

Today I’ve moved my old use Perl; journal to here bulknews.typepad.com. Here’s useperl2mt.pl, a quick script to scrape use Perl; journal entries and dumps them as Movable Type exported data format.

October 18, 2004

Module Updates

Today I’ve uploaded new versions of Class::DBI::SQLite and Apache::Singleton. Both release are bug fix, to be compatible with newer SQLite and Apache2.

October 09, 2004

PHP::Session array issue

Someone has requested me to add a new feature to get PHP array back as a Perl array, in PHP::Session.

October 06, 2004

rss2audiobook

rss2audiobook is a Perl script that converts your RSS feed into iPod playable audible audiobook format.

October 05, 2004

XS on Win32 hassle

I’m working on Apple’s Rendezvous Windows SDK port to Perl on win32 using XS. Currently, DNSRegisterService seems to work, but it has a problem with select() which works in usual C program, but breaks in XS module.

October 03, 2004

Bloglines module

Again, long time no blogging on use Perl (My own blog is at http://blog.bulknews.net/mt/ if you can read Japanese).