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waider ([personal profile] waider) wrote2004-11-13 06:59 pm
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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.
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[identity profile] waider.livejournal.com 2004-11-14 11:20 am (UTC)(link)
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.

[identity profile] bitpuddle.livejournal.com 2004-11-14 02:52 pm (UTC)(link)
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.