RadioduinoWRT – a do it yourself webradio

Posted by Raffael on 11/05/201303/21/2015 Posted in Arduino, Hardware Hacks, HTML, OpenWrt, Personal stuff, PHP, Tutorials Tagged Arduino radio, Arduino web radio, MPC, MPD, OpenWrt, OpenWRT MPD, OpenWRT web radio, RadioduinoWRT, TP-Link WR703N, WR703N hacks, WR703N lighthttpd, WR703N lighttpd, WR703N web radio

RadioduinoWRT Today I want to present you one of my larger craft projects. This time it is not just about software, but also about the associated hardware. What is it? A web radio!
I like to listen to internet radio stations, but I didn’t want to run my pc only for listening to webradios. Connecting my phone to my stereo either wasn’t a solution, since I’d rather wear this with me, because I don’t want to run for each SMS / Whatsapp message to the music system. And because I always like to tinker, it was obvious to build a web radio as a standalone device myself.
As this article has become a bit longer, there is a brief overview of the following sections of the article, so that everyone can quickly find what he looks for.

What is the RadioduinoWRT?
Considerations before building
What […]

Update: WordPress2Doc 1.1.0.0

Posted by Raffael on 11/04/2013 Posted in Downloads, Wordpress Tagged bugfix, Update, Wordpress2Doc

Wordpress2Doc Version 1.1.0.0 Short info: After Habared has kindly told me on GitHub that my “WordPress2Doc” tool has a few problems with UTF-8 characters, I took time and wrote a small fix.
In fact, I had missed the character encoding in the HTML code that is embedded in both, the generated .docx- and .pdf-documents.
The latest, UTF-8 compatible version of WordPress2Doc can be found both in the main article and on GitHub. I would appreciate any feedback!
Download WordPress2Doc

QRCoder – an Open Source QR code generator implementation in C#

Posted by Raffael on 10/17/201312/03/2016 Posted in C#.Net, Tutorials Tagged c# iso 18004, c# open source qr code, C# QR code, c# qr code library, c# qr code mit lizenz, free .net qr code library, ISO 18004, QR code

QRCoder demo In modern times QR codes should be known by pretty much everyone. Since smartphones are becoming increasingly popular, QR codes can also be found at more and more places in our everyday lives. As a fairly serious geek this should be reason enough to engage a bit more in detail with the technology behind it. And what way seems to be more suitable than implementing a QR code generator by yourself?
Because C# is my favourite programming language, the choice fell accordingly to this language. Sadly information on the QR code are not so easy to get. The easiest way of course would be the official way – simply buy the ISO/IEC document. That would be the ISO/IEC 18004. But there’s also a crux on that. The ISO 18004 […]

How to create articles on Blogspot with C#

Posted by Raffael on 09/08/2013 Posted in C#.Net, Google, Test, Tutorials Tagged .NET, api, Blog has exceeded rate limit or otherwise requires word verification for new posts, blogger, blogger api, blogspot, blogspot api, c# api, c# blogger, CSharp, gdata.data.client

Blogger C# API Logo Today I want to show you how to create a blog article on Blogger.com/Blogspot.com with C#. For this you need first of all the Google.GData.Client.dll, which you can find inside the Google .Net API package.
You can download the API package here from Google. (The file is called Google_Data_API_Setup_2.2.0.msi (Please note that the version number – 2.2.0 – over time may change of course.)
If the download is complete, install the package, open a new project in Visual Studio and add a reference to the Google.GData.Client.dll.
The .dll file can be found in the installation directory of the API package. (Click on the link “add a reference” above, if you need help embedding .dlls into a Visual Studio project.)
If you have included the DLL, you can start already. Blog posts (aka articles) can be created as follows:

private static int […]

XiVerse – Xing reverse search engine

Posted by Raffael on 09/02/201309/02/2013 Posted in Personal stuff, Web Tips Tagged who has visited my xing profile, Xing, Xing reverse search, Xing reverse search engine, Xing visitors without premium, Xing.com

For some days I’m also on Xing. Who is also there, will certainly know the function that displays the last visitors of one’s own profile.
Unfortunately you do not get the names of your visitors, but only small thumbnails of the last visitor appears in the basic membership at Xing. Also a link to their profile is not given.
This feature is dedicated to premium users (~ 7 € / month) only. But that’s only the half truth.
Find out who visited your Xing progile without having premium status
In most cases it is possible to find out who were the last visitors on the own profile without premium membership. Therefore you have to compare the visitors thumbnails against some data.
In order to simplify the search procedure, as an exercise for myself and as a feasibility study in general, I have […]