Jason L. Froebe - Tech tips and How Tos for Fellow Techies

Yeah, it’s Who Better Than Me by Phil Collins with the Turk and Tarzan names changed but it covers just about any two closely aged siblings IMHO:
Miriam
You’re one of a kind, I can’t explain it.
You’re kind of cool, in a wonderful way.
Though you’re weird, you can make it.
And who better than me to teach you.
Who [...]

Yesterday, I posted Howto: Convert your mp3 tags (id3v2 to id3v1) so your Playstation 3 can play your MP3s! and it worked fine but there was one little problem with it.
When we processed the files, namely running eye3D, we did so synchronously. Essentially, the file notification came in from the Linux kernel and we [...]

Run the converter on your media server: ps3_mp3_converter.pl -d {directory}
Copy your mp3 collection wherever you told ps3_mp3_converter.pl to run in.

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use File::Basename;
use File::Find ();
use Getopt::Std;
use Linux::Inotify2;
use POE;
$|++;
#######################################
#######################################
our @found_dirs;
sub watch_add_dir {
 my ($heap_ref, $session, $dir_name) = @_;
 $heap_ref->{inotify}->watch($dir_name, IN_CREATE|IN_CLOSE_WRITE, $session->postback("watch_hdlr"));
 print " Watching directory $dir_name\n";
}
sub watch_hdlr {
 my ($heap_ref, $session, $event) = ( $_[HEAP], $_[SESSION], $_[ARG1][0] );
 my $name [...]

5-in-1 White Charger/Holder/Fm Transmitter/LCD/Audio for 2.5mm and 3.5 mm/Usb Charger
I was more than a little skeptical at this iPod/mp3 player/cell phone/usb charger & FM transmitter.  There weren’t any reviews that I could find whatsoever on this contraption.  After looking around and seeing other combo units at about $90, I figured, that I would get one [...]