Monthly Archives: July 2009

Bash script to read Twitter statuses out loud

This is a small Bash script that downloads your friends statuses and reads them aloud using the Festival speech synth. You need to download some packages first. On Ubuntu do: sudo apt-get install curl xmlstarlet festival After installing the command is: curl -s -u twitterusername:twitterpassword 'http://twitter.com/statuses/friends_timeline.xml?count=5' | xmlstarlet sel -t -m '//status' -v 'user/screen_name' -o [...]
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NeXTStep Icons Still in OSX Leopard

Windows is known for hanging on to ancient icons. If you go looking in Windows Vista or even 7 you can find icons dating back to the 16-bit era. Mac OS X is not known for this sort of thing, but if you use the single window screenshot short cut, Command + Shift + 4 [...]
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