Phylix Posted January 12, 2008 Posted January 12, 2008 I'm fascinated with automating repetitive tasks and using my computer when I'm not in front of it and I was wondering what, if any, computer setups some of you may have to make your life easier so that I may "borrow" your ideas. I'm thinking of stuff like just a simple remote control for your computer, automatically downloading your favorite podcasts/television shows, using VNC with a domain name, or anything else that just makes life easier for someone with a computer on all day. Here's what I've done so far, and I'm sure many others have done this too: -Use Girder to map buttons on a remote to do whatever I want from my bed. -Use RSS feeds and BitTorrent to download podcasts and television shows -Set up a domain to point to my dynamic IP address through ZoneEdit and use it for VNC, hosting games, and other stuff. -Create an alarm that plays music in the morning that slowly increases the volume up to a point so I can wake up more comfortably. Now that I look at it, it really isn't very impressive... What I'd like to do is make a phone call to connect to my computer and have it wait for a key combination to run a program or invoke an event for a program like Girder to handle. And since the phone is already there, allow it to do stuff like schedule calls, text message, and whatever other fun stuff I can't think of right now. I know this can be done with most phones already, but I'm cheap and don't want to have to pay for a data plan. Eventually, when I build my own house, I'd like to have one computer in a hidden room to be my home's control center to automate whatever I can, create logs, and control things with voice commands or a small remote. Yeah... That little X10 device from season one really got me into this. So, if any of you would share what you've done or ideas, that'd be great. Quote
proskater123 Posted January 12, 2008 Posted January 12, 2008 install orb so you can listen to your music from any computer, you could (if it exsist) set it up so you can call your computer and it starts a bunch of stuff you want redeay to go. idk im just throwing out stuff from the bottom of my brain ?_? Quote
Mark Manching Posted January 13, 2008 Posted January 13, 2008 or install Winamp Remote. if had Winamp Installed Quote
proskater123 Posted January 13, 2008 Posted January 13, 2008 or install Winamp Remote. if had Winamp Installed Well orb is what winamp remote uses. that way he won't have to install winamp remote on there. Quote
3TeK Posted January 13, 2008 Posted January 13, 2008 anywhere.fm is pretty badass, i use it at work Quote
operat0r_001 Posted March 11, 2008 Posted March 11, 2008 slacker.com pandora.com my fav automated task is the full update of snort script I made * uses PHP/CURL to download the latest sigs from snort.org * adds sigs from www.bleedingthreats.net * cleans up conf and rule sets * fixes rule triggers to alert snortsam.net IDP heres the script ... http://rmccurdy.com/scripts/snortupdate.sh.txt http://rmccurdy.com/scripts/snort.php.txt its a total hack job but it works .. Quote
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