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Applications I’d Like to Write

Everyone says it: “man, why isn’t there a program that does this?” I’ve been keeping these ideas in the back of my head for a while and I’d like to post it more for myself as a formalized note than anything else. Programs I’d like to write:

  • Nice GUI news reader that supports ssl. Reason: I don’t want to have to use a full blown Thunderbird to just read news groups.
  • FTP client similar to Mac OS X’s “Cyberduck.” Reason: GFTP is okay, LFTP is better, why not merge the two? Per advice from Randy Walker, we think that “icon view” would be a nice feature as well.
  • Simple daemon to keep my Google Calendar synced up with my iPod. Reason: So far I know nothing that will automate this process on Linux. I would like to use Snorp‘s ipod-sharp to utilize d-bus.
  • CLI daap client. Reason: As far as I know, nothing like this exists and I’d like to stream music to all of my computers with it (even computers without X).

Hopefully this coming summer (between research and work) I will have time to at least implement one of these apps. Please feel free to comment if you know of something that would sefice for one of these app plans.

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  • http://www.mwolson.org/ Michael Olson

    Have you tried the PAN newsreader? It’s a GTK2 app. I used to like it quite a bit before I switched to Emacs+Gnus.

  • http://www.mwolson.org/ Michael Olson

    Have you tried the PAN newsreader? It’s a GTK2 app. I used to like it quite a bit before I switched to Emacs+Gnus.

  • http://openradix.org/ Luke Hoersten

    I’m pretty sure that PAN doesn’t support SSL which is needed for off campus connections.

  • http://openradix.org/ Luke Hoersten

    I’m pretty sure that PAN doesn’t support SSL which is needed for off campus connections.

  • Jon

    2nd the cli daap client – I've been searching like crazy for one and found nothing, so I don't think there exists such a project. I currently use the flash/web-based FirePlay for my firefly server collection which is a fantastic app (and can also be used remotely!), but I would really love a simplified ncmpc-like cli client.

    For me daap is the way to go- I have a freenas file-server which comes w/firefly built-in so it's a cinch- I can listen from any computer on or outside the network, and also from my Roku Soundbridge for the living room.

    So for me firefly/daap is a lot more functional than mpd, although mpd is very good as well.

    If you ever find a cli daap client let us know!

  • Jon

    2nd the cli daap client – I've been searching like crazy for one and found nothing, so I don't think there exists such a project. I currently use the flash/web-based FirePlay for my firefly server collection which is a fantastic app (and can also be used remotely!), but I would really love a simplified ncmpc-like cli client.

    For me daap is the way to go- I have a freenas file-server which comes w/firefly built-in so it's a cinch- I can listen from any computer on or outside the network, and also from my Roku Soundbridge for the living room.

    So for me firefly/daap is a lot more functional than mpd, although mpd is very good as well.

    If you ever find a cli daap client let us know!