Did you ever want to receive Caller ID information from your SIP VoIP phone line on your Jabber Instant Messaging account? If you did, I can now provide you with a little hack that does just that: phonering.pl is a messy Perl script that connects to a SIP registrar, waits for incoming calls and notifies [...]
Ever spent a lot of time debugging that one missing curly bracket in your source code file? Sure, there are code editors available that help you out with this daunting task. But if you cannot or don’t want to use one of those you can try these ten lines of Perl code:
bracket_detector.pl (also available on [...]
And I couldn’t resist: Another IMified widget. This one provides a collection of networking tools: The “NetLookup” widget that should show up on an IMified widgets page near you soon allows you to query a variety of network databases. You always give it a command in the form commandname target. The following commands are currently [...]
Discovering that IMified launched an easy-to-use API for their service, I was soon thinking about what to implement with it.
And then I remembered Adam Pash’s BudgetBot presented on LifeHacker. Unfortunately you have to set it up on your own server and it only works with AIM, limiting its use to the more tech-savvy and AIM-using [...]
