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! ;)

I’ve been toying with a few items the last few months, and now they’re active. The filemanager now crosschecks the files against my stored MD5 hashes, and will report if a file may have become damaged between my upload and the resulting program on my software page.

As a corollary, this does increase the load on the webserver by an insignificant amount. To help combat this; I’ve made my filemanager caching, so it will store the last hit, if within the last few minutes, compare them to what it computes, and if nothing has changed, it will then send the prior page, rather than recreating the entire page and heirachy.

Pretty cool, huh?

[Edit: I’ve changed the way the output is generated; rather than displaying the check mark next to ‘known good’ files, it will alert the end user when they attempt to download the file if it does not match checksums. This is less astetically pleasing – losing a few geek points for a silent dynamic test, but is much easier on the server.]

I’ve integrated download statistics into the software; making it much easier to tell what software’s hot, and, er, what’s not.

Eventually, I’ll add more useful statistics than overall download numbers; perhaps even highlighting the software by search terms for people who find me via Google, and provide alternate means for those who seem dead-set on hotlinking to my files.

At any rate; the statistics are true, and valid, although I’ve only collected the last few month’s worth of data here. It’d be interersting to obtain overall statistics, but I used to use ‘the standard’ way of just pointing an HREF to the files; whereas now, everything’s seemlessly handled by my file manager.