the news

I've done a lot of windows programming when I was using the system. I've been creating things I needed back then. Then I moved to use mostly (and then almost exclusively) linux and continued creating things I needed there. I still use linux a lot, of course, but I've also added another system to my everyday life (which, I must admit, I like) — Mac OS X.

I have to admit, there's no particular need in TFTP server and client on OS X, since it has command line tools for these needs, but still sometimes it is more convenient to fire up a nice GUI, especially when it comes to the server.

Anyway, to expand my horizons, learn a bit about the platform I use, dig a bit deeper into Objective-C, etc. I have ported the well-known PumpKIN TFTP daemon to Mac. (Icons were the hardest part).

This is the very 0.0 version, but it seems to work. And feedback is appreciated if anyone cares to try.

Love,
H

Not really a breakthrough, but the amount of small changes justifies a release. The new iii now consumes less memory when calculating integrity digest, accepts all files the card is willing to send and complains better when being wronged (the latter is only important if you haven't got it to work yet).

Love,
H

Now that I've got a bit of time, I have exercised my windows skills and updated PumpKIN tftp server. That is, corrected a small bug and added a small feature. The full list of both improvements is available here. Go grab it, if you care.

Love,
H

After a cardful-of-pictures-long trip I thought it's a nice idea to do something about geotagging before I enable Eye-Fi upload. Unsurprisingly, the liberty taken lead me to the iii 0.2 release, which introduces

• storing of the data about APs nearby uploaded along with the picture;
• sample scripts for post-upload processing of the pictures, including basic geotagging script (done in bash);
• etc.

Wish I had time to try to figure out how to properly geotag pictures using the service provided by Eye-Fi. Maybe next time.

Meanwhile, feel free to go grab it and contribute fixes and improvements :)

Love,
H

The usual story: I bought a piece of new hardware lacking linux support and quickly hacked together a small daemon to make it work the way I want.

Now if you have your pet linux server at home and want it to accept photographs from the Eye-Fi card, you can try iii.

Love,
H