From time to time I write a few lines of shell|perl|ruby|whatever, and despite not being kickass applications, some can be usefull. Or so I hope ; anyway, here they are.
… or Take your umbrella in english, is a perl program that uses Twitter direct-messages to notify me of the current weather. This way I can just grab my phone, and know if it’s going to rain, or not. The script currently only works in Paris, as it uses the weather forecast of meteo-paris.com. Simply because I like this website, and since it is dedicated to Paris – where I live – their forecasts are right 99% of the time. :)
Grab it here ptp.perl.
Notice: Twitter.com no longer send SMS messages for free in France. So this is a lot less useful as an SMS reminder, but still handy if you have an unlimited data plan, and a twitter client on your phone. :)
Under this terrific name is a tiny perl program that can search subtitles on opensubtitles.org using their excellent XML-RPC API. It is quite rough around the edges, and the subtitles’ languages are hard-coded as French and English. But I’m quite sure you can change that if you need to. Did I mention it downloads the appropriate subtitles-file if it is found, and renames it to stick with your original movie file?
Why this program you say? Because searching for subtitles using a browser is boring, and slow ; and because I could not find a CPAN package that does it – which is quite surprising actually. And I am also terribly lazy. :)
Grab it here subtitle.perl