Due to overwhelming request, I’ve made my silly little WAP transfer site publically available. This two-stage system has been moved to my subgenus.com playground.

First, upload a supported file type, then browse the folder you uploaded to, or key the complete URL into your phone.

The upload system is pretty straight forward. Due to the differences in cell phones and providers, I am unable to assist with that, however, if your phone has any internet access, you should be able to directly navigate the pages. Note that the browsing system is smart enough to output HTML for a browser, but will also render WML, XHTML, and HDML for mobile devices.

There are a few minor caveates: I don’t have much space, or much bandwidth. Thus, I am not allowing MP3 or WAV file hosting, and each file must be under 131k, or it will be discarded.

That stated, have fun uploading to your phone, and don’t forget to look around.

It’s been a few months coming, but MKVToolNix 1.6.5 is here.

There are many new features and bugfixes, far too many to list!

Feel free to get it from my software page.

Yes, I’ve been abusing my internet – I’ve not updated my website in a month, and I haven’t been about. The truth is, I’ve been spending much more time exercising and LESS internet time. It feels good to not stare at a screen for 13 hours a day.

I finally had a chance to work on my WAP gateway. I had a few minor mime type and coding issues. Oops. Silly me.

No, it’s not public, and I don’t exactly expect to make it so, but who knows, I’ve been known to create silly little utilities and programs.

[Note that I have removed my build of MikMod from my software page, as it is now mostly-maintainable from Raphael’s builds, however, if you still want it, here it is.]

I’ve been asked this a couple times, and each time it’s given me a smile. A user who previously downloaded my build of MikMod wants to take their favorite songs, and import them into iTunes, or burn to CD.

It’s pretty easy, actually. My libmikmod build includes the ‘AIFF’ and ‘RAW’ disk writers, so you can just tell mikmod to create a file which you can import into iTunes. The WAV writer is broken in all MikMod releases to date with big endian systems. I’ve only recently discovered this – but my old releases are unlikely to be patched.

I usually use something similar to this construction (for Bourne compatible shells) from the Terminal:

%for n in *.mod *.s3m *.it; do mikmod -d 4 -F -l -X $n; mv music.aiff $n.aiff; done

This will leave you with much less disk space, and several files, such as ‘panic.s3m.aiff’. You can use iTunes to create MP3s, and/or burn them to your CDs.

This is my first MacOS X 10.4 native release, however, it has been tested, and worked fine on a G3 with 10.3.9. Primarily a bugfix version, it still stays crunchy in milk.