Aside from cleaning up a bit of the internals to my filemanager; I’ve extended it just a bit more. Observe, for example, Bliss:

Download: Bliss-1.6.1.pkg.sit [379.6k] · GPG SIG MD5: 800c6be363db1238057637318221d54a Version: 1.6.1 · Uploaded on 25.10.03/4:12pm. Stats: 150 downloads, last: 23.04.04/2:01am.

Now the filemanager records the number of downloads, and the time of the last download.

Sure, it was trivial to add, but I think it makes it look a bit more professional.

The way it works is quite simple. When you click a download link to my files, it is transparently sent through my file manager, which then executes an SQL query to update the tally of downloads, as well as the current time. No other things, such as IP address, is saved, as I don’t believe in any real form of user tracking (aside from a valid email address to signup for my forums), and those metrics are quite useless to me.

What happens, is I have specific keywords translated through the magic of Apache’s mod_rewrite, which forwards information about your download query to my filemanager, which then checks the validity of the file, compares it to my stored information, then sends you the file, after updating the download and time numerics. Pretty neat, huh?

Of course, I’ve also added the ability to store information on when I uploaded the file, so you may now how ‘fresh’ it is, if you are so inclined. A few of my older software ports have similar timestamps due to the fact that I moved servers last year, and I used the localized numerics from this server. There is no ‘last download’ for software which is officially deprecated. It’s unnecessary.

MyPasswordSafe is a straight-forward, easy-to-use password manager that maintains compatibility with Password Safe. Your ‘safes’ are encrypted when stored to disk, and passwords never have to be seen as they are copied to the clipboard. It will even generate random passwords for you.

This is a MacOS X port utilizing the Qt/Mac Free frameworks. The Qt framework is included within the application, so you do not need to install Qt to use it.

Feel free to download it from my software page.

I’ve ported Mortiz’ Bunkus OGMTools for use with MacOS X. This does NOT require the Fink Frameworks. It is an OGG/OGM complement to his MKVToolNix toolset, which I also have avaialble here.

You’ll find the MacOS X installer package here.

As many MacOS X users tend to use Marc Liyanage’s PHP build (myself included), I figured I might supplement his latest release based upon PHP 4.3.6 with Turck MMCache, and XDebug, two utilities which I find indispensable – the first, a PHP caching system to make load times amazingly fast, and second, a wonderful and quite useful php debugging tool.

You will find them available on my software page, Turck MMCache is here, and XDebug is here respectively.

Ok, so I’ve been horribly bored today. Figured I might as well learn another useful(?) feature of PHP. Introduce dynamic graphics!

Yes, I realize that the browser type is not always correct. Believe it or not, almost every browser identifies itself as Mozilla (Netscape) for backwards compatibility. That, and with browsers such as Opera, many users actively pretend to be another browser, and we just can’t tell!

It supports both JPEG, and PNG filetypes, and will produce a static image of the same size. If you’re interested in such a silly project, I’ve made the source available. Please do not hotlink to it; lest my graceous hosts become angered, or worse, want more money! ;)