Tuesday, April 25, 2006

Use Google Calendar for free WebSite Monitoring

Use Google Calendar for free WebSite Monitoring

"By using Google's new Calendar API, you can insert events from your NMS (other) server into various Google calendars. These could be events from SNMP, ticket system, Nagios, scripts or even by hand! Use it to show upcoming/planned outages. The benefits of having your events in this format are HUGE! Common format, sharing, searching, viewing, invites....Some day even on your phone or in your car. "

Friday, April 21, 2006

ajaxTunes - Web-Based Media Player

ajaxTunes - Web-Based Media Player

"ajaxTunes is a web-based media player that lets you play, pause, forward and rewind high-quality streaming music straight from the Internet on any computer. Try ajaxTunes immediately, it has been preloaded with a demo account containing more than 25 songs encoded at 192kbps from different albums and a great mix of playlists from select artists. Or, create your own music locker and choose from over 40,000 songs to create your personal playlists. ajaxTunes is a fully interactive application that will allow you to connect to hours of music, FREE.

In addition to listening to music from the pre-loaded playlists or from your own locker, you may also provide visitors to your website with the ability to click on a link and play a song or a playlist directly on ajaxTunes. To see a sample of how this works, listen to the following song by Emily Richards."

Thursday, April 06, 2006

ac3jack - real-time AC-3 stream encoder for JACK

ac3jack - real-time AC-3 stream encoder for JACK

"ac3jack is a tool for creating an AC-3 (Dolby Digital) multichannel stream from its JACK input ports. Using this tool, an AC-3 stream (up to 5.1 channels) is created in real time and either written to a file or streamed to standard output.

When streamed to stdout and piped through the ALSA tool ac3dec -C, the AC-3 stream can be passed out the SPDIF port on your audio interface for connection to a multichannel surround receiver. In this way, you can achieve full 5.1 surround mixing and monitoring of your JACK applications with a single digital cable, and no need for hardware supporting discrete outputs and inputs.

AC-3 is a compressed audio stream, so quality will suffer somewhat, but it is the price you pay for easy surround sound. After all, if it is good enough for DVD and film soundtracks, it must be OK. The AC-3 encoder used here comes from the FFMPEG project, and I have not done any quality comparisons with commercial encoders."