Most useful geek production of the day: a program that sits on my IrDA port, waits for inbound objects, converts them into MIME-formatted mail messages and drops them into my mail spool.
It's on my site, in the workshop, like most of the crap I write. I wouldn't want people to feel that it's, you know, a product or anything. It's a hack.
I have a camera phone. The handiest way to get stuff off it is via IrDA. And up until now I had just a nasty hack to dump the beamed data into a file in /tmp. There are other uses, but that's the primary one.
Oh, plus it's linuxy. Windows people have the Wireless Device/Beamed Items folder, and Mac users presumably have some astoundingly beautiful thing that noone else had previously thought of.
Despite the initial "check it out" factor of the IrDA port, I never really used mine for anything. I'll occasionally zap photos from phone to laptop via Bluetooth, but most of the photos taken with my phone are nothing I want to save for posterity.
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Oh, plus it's linuxy. Windows people have the Wireless Device/Beamed Items folder, and Mac users presumably have some astoundingly beautiful thing that noone else had previously thought of.
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