Category: Open Source

Java + BitTorrent Library

TorrentSniffer – TorrentSniffer
TorrentSniffer is a Java library for reading BitTorrent information. TorrentSniffer currently implements the following sections of the BitTorrent Protocol Specification 1.0: Metainfo File Structure, Bencoding and Tracker ‘scrape’ Convention. The primary purpose of this library is to retrieve the number of seeds and peers of a torrent. This is done by using the Tracker ‘scrape’ Convention.

Shelly’s on to something here..

Emmy Advanced Media – Television Business News: The WiMax Price Club

A nice idea…

From the site:
They’re popping up all over America — in backyards everywhere — it’s the latest do-it-yourself craze – the WiMax Price Club. Want free Internet access for life? No problem. Just go to http://www.WiMaxPriceClub.com and order your tower kit online. When it arrives, get your building permit (if required by local zoning laws) and erect your new 80’ antenna tower in your back yard or on your rooftop. Just plug in the included WiMax repeater and you’ll be online in a jiffy! Imagine over 70 megabits up and down, FREE for life! Nothing else to buy

Community Radio Toolkit (book with discussion forum)

Radio Regen, Community FM Toolkit for Community Radio

From the site:
What you will find here by the end of 2005, is a complete web version of the 212 pages of the book, complete with active discussion forums for readers. We will also have staff deployed to follow up information requests and extract the usable information from these discussions. So there’ll be information digests and Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ’s) too.
In the meanwhile, following the enthusiastic response from delegates at our Community FM conference, we’re posting samples of the book and launching an experimental forum for you to discuss what you think of the book. If this resource is to become truly comprehensive, and stay up to date, we need you to join in with the discussion on the forum to tell us what you think of what you’ve read and to share your experiences.

OMDS Article

TECTONIC: How will you consume your open media?
Michael Sharon has written a nice article summarizing the Open Media Developers Summit.
From the article:
Two weeks ago, on a rainy Friday and Saturday in October, 65 programmers and developers debated these and many other questions at the first Open Media Developer’s Summit held at New York University’s Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) in down-town Manhattan.

Understand the iPod iTunesDB

ITunesDB – wikiPodLinux
From the site:
This page details the format of the binary files used on the iPod to keep track of the music it contains as well as its play history. Collectively we refer to these files as the iTunesDB however there are in fact a number of files, each with their own format, that make up this database.