Shawn Holwegner's Blog

Connecting instead of connection.

Speak is a quick little utility I threw together from old BSD code, and utilizes MacOS X’s underlying speech engine.

It’s a command line utility, which is odd for all but the most geeky of Mac users – mimmicing cat, mincing the data given to it, and rather than displaying it on the terminal, it wi...

I must admit to being shocked by the messages I’ve received asking me to return the beloved “Oom-Pa-Pa” tune available upon my website. It’s been at least one a month since I’ve removed it. This is a mere resampling and re-loop of the theme music to the Matrix Parody, “Computer Boy”, nearly gaining...

This is a trivial little thing, but it may be useful for you.

NRG2ISO is a tool which will convert Ahead Nero images to ISO compatible images. v0.4 touts DVD image support.

Happy holidays!

Since changing over to a new machine, I’ve had to recreate my development system, and try to focus a bit upon one of the most neglected: The very software which I use to create my site.

It’s unfeasable, even with my new traffic and space allotment to attempt to do development on a staging system b...

I’m a bit late to the game, but I’ve finally got my beloved Mac back, and thus, development is on track!

My build of MKVToolNix has been updated to release 1.01.

I have upgraded my shared hosting account to allow for 1GB of space, and 15GB of traffic a month.

As such, I am temporarily removing my external file mirrors from my download options – I should be able to handle all requests locally, however, should traffic pick up astronomically, I’ll put them ba...