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Simple Woot-watching Perl Script
This is a Perl script that outputs periodically the name, price, percent sold, and number of comments of the current item up for sale at woot.com. It has a few options for customization. Run woot.pl -? to see those. This script needs the LWP and XML::Parser::Lite::Tree modules.

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Sudoku Solver in Python for Google App Engine
This Sudoku Solver is written for Google App Engine. It requires jQuery for AJAX but everything else it needs is provided by App Engine.

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Adocu client in Perl script
Adocu is a nanoblogging service. It is similar to Twitter, except that it limits your status update to one word. This script posts a status to Adocu. See the embedded POD at the end of the script for details on Adocu login configuration.

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Twitter contact categorizer
This Perl script works like Twitter Karma in that it sorts your Twitter contacts into groups according to whether they are mutual friends, friends only, or followers only.

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Pidgin plugin that copies to the clipboard each IM that you send
I use this plugin in conjunction with a clipboard manager utility. It's a crude way to have a history recall of sent IMs.

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Perl script for moving photos in/out of Flickr views groups
Because it's such a bother to do that manually.

1. self2.pl, scan Flickr photostream. either sequentially or randomly, and add/remove photos to/from Flickr views groups:

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2. ApiKey.pm, a short module containing the API key:

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Postcrossing Stats by Country
This script parses the postcards sent/received pages from Postcrossing and produces a table showing the number of postcards received from each country ranked by postcard count. It can differentiate between the sent page and the received page so you don't have to tell it which one it is processing.

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AutoHotkey macros for copying and converting coordinates
This macro (Alt-S) takes a set of coordinates, whether in dd.ddddd format or in dd mm.mmm format, from the clipboard and pastes it into a form in a number of formats. Alt-Shift-S brings up a GUI dialog box allowing you to choose a paste format.

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Perl Scripts for User Stats on the 10 Million Photos Flickr Group
These scripts generate a Top N list for users in the 10 Million Photos Flickr group.

1. ApiKey.pm, a short module containing the API key:

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2. TenCommon.pm, functions shared by all the scripts:

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3. runten2.pl, scan the group pool and update the database incrementally:

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4. tenshort.pl, use Flickr API to correct the stats for the Top 150 and produce the report:

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5. tenconvert.pl, convert from old flatfile database to SQLite:

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Perl scripts for users stats on the 10 Million Photos Flickr group
These scripts generate a Top N list for users in the 10 Million Photos Flickr group.

ApiKey.pm, a short module containing the API key:

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tenmil.pl, a script that goes through the whole group counting photos:

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runten.pl, a wrapper that runs tenmil.pl block by block, retrying if necessary:

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tenshort.pl, a script that merges the output from tenmil.pl and updates counts for the top 150 users:

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Autohotkey macros for copying coordinates
These two macros take coordinates from the clipboard, whether in dd.ddddd format or in dd mm.mmm format.

Then the first macro pastes dd.ddddd format coordinates into two form fields with 2 tabs separating the fields. The second macro does the same but with 1 tab instead of 2.

Use the first macro for Geosnapper and the second for Streets and Trips.

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Flickr Pool Utilities
1. PoolCommon.pm (shared functions)

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2. ApiKey.pm template (fill in with your Flickr API key and related information)

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3. pool.pl (Group pool cleaning script)

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4. self.pl (Group suggestions for photos in photostream)

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5. proself.pl (Groups and sorts output from self.pl)

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K-Meleon web search macros
In toolbars.cfg:

Main Bar {
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        Search{
        luamacros(GoogleSearch)|Web Search
        Search
        toolhot.bmp[5]
        }
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}

In menus.cfg:

Web Search{
luamacros(GoogleSearch, Search Google)
luamacros(A9Search, Search A9)
luamacros(DictSearch, Search Dictionary.com)
luamacros(BaiduSearch, Search Baidu)
luamacros(MWSearch, Search Merriam-Webster)
luamacros(WikiSearch, Search Wikipedia)
luamacros(IMDBSearch, Search IMDB)
luamacros(BlogSearch, Search Blog)
}

In accel.cfg:

CTRL G = luamacros(GoogleSearch)

Lua code:
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K-Meleon Pager macros for Flickr, Google, and Livejournal
In accel.cfg:

CTRL VK_NEXT = luamacros(PageNext)
CTRL VK_PRIOR = luamacros(PagePrev)

In toolbars.cfg:

Pages{
	PreviousPage{
	luamacros(PagePrev)
	Previous page
	sysmenu.bmp[5]
	}

	NextPage{
	luamacros(PageNext)
	Next page
	sysmenu.bmp[4]
	}
}

Lua code:
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K-Meleon Lua macros for Up Directory and Top Level
In toolbars.cfg:

GO{
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	Up {
	luamacros(UpDir)|up
	Up.
	toolhot.bmp[16]
	toolcold.bmp[16]
	}
}

In menus.cfg:

up{
luamacros(UpDir, Go Up Directory)
luamacros(TopDir, Go to Top Level of site)
}

Lua code:
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