If you ever need to control Foobar 2000 remotely, here is the plugin for you. It’s called HTTP Writer and it runs a mini HTTP server within Foobar so you can control it remotely via a web browser. I was going to write a JSP to do this for me, but since someone has already done it, I’ll just use this. I used it all day today and it works great.

HTTP Writer Foobar plugin

TAGS: geek foobar foobar2000 audio mp3s remote http

If you’ll look in the right-hand column, I added a cool Flickr widget. Click it and it will pop out my last 10 pictures from Flickr. If you want one too, just download it from the author’s site.

geek, flickr, widget, PHP

Yes, Tailinator, not Mailinator. It’s weird how things happen. I went to news.google.com and searched for mailinator. It said “Did you mean: tailinator ?”. I clicked it – wondering what tailinator is and it gave NO results which I thought was weird – why would it suggest it if it gave zero hits? So I Searched Google for tailinator and it turns out it is a really good freeware log file tailer for Windows! I need one of those!

I played with it a bit today and it works great! It’s basic, but does the job nicely – it can open mutiple files in tabs, flashes when a file has changed, you can choose to load the whole file or just the last X bytes, and it can autoload a log or logs at startup. Tailinator seems to have no website listed in it and I can’t find its “home on the web”, but you can find it if you just search google for tailinator. So, a search for Mailinator gets me a log monitoring utility called Tailinator.

geek, windows, freeware, logs

Since I have been using a plugin to Miranda to check my POP3 account, during the time period where I couldn’t use Miranda I had to look for a small footprint POP3 checker. My requirements were:

• low memory footprint, the smaller the better
• message preview – I want to see who it’s from and the subject before launching my mail client
• mimize to tray
• freeware

I found a TON of POP3 checkers and here were my results for the ones I tried:

• eprompter – 5.8MB – too much memory
• emailchk – 5 MB – too much memory
• magic mail monitor – 5.5 MB – too much memory
• mailchecker – 3MB – no preview
• natty – 1.6 MB – no preview
• mailpeek – 500kb – no system tray
• PopPeeper – 1.7 MB – WINNER

So, I ended up using PopPeeper. It met all my needs and only used ~1.7MB of memory when running. Of course, now that Miranda works again, I don’t need it any more. Oh well. Maybe this info will help someone else in the future.

PopPeeper website

geek, windows, freeware, software, email, pop3

After a few days of downtime, Miranda finally works again. Miranda is a multi-protocol IM client and it seems AOL cut off its access. They released a patch that fixes the AIM support. WooHoo! I was using Gaim in the interim and it was painful. Miranda really is a much better client than Gaim, IMHO. It has a very low memory footprint, is totally customizable via plugins, is freeware/open source, does all the major IM protocols, runs from a flash drive, and just works and acts like I want it to. Check it out if you haven’t already.

Miranda homepage

geek, windows, freeware, IM