MailBin – Remotely Queue up NZB Files Using Gmail
Written from the ground up in C#, MailBin is a small application that checks your Gmail account for NZB, Zip, and .Torrent files, allowing you to remotely queue up Usenet and BitTorrent downloads at any remote location. It’s a great tool for when you find something you want to download while away from home, but you want it to be ready by the time you get there.
If you are an avid fan of Usenet or BitTorrent, and happen to use a newsreader/torrent client that will auto queue files (Like Newsbin or uTorrent), give it a try!
Another Seagate Drive Bites the Dust
Yet another Seagate drive I own bit the dust a few days ago. The current victim is a Barracuda 7200.11 500 GB drive. I can’t quite recall when I bought it, but it is still under warranty for quite some time.
Before anyone asks – yes, I updated the firmware. No, not the original “fix” put out by Seagate – the for-real, 100% fixed and working firmware they put out after that. This was your good-old run-of-the-mill “whir, click…whir, click” death that typically signifies a dead logic board.
Alas, I know Seagate would never consider simply replacing the board and returning my drive (along with its precious data) to me. A company that charges for an advance replacement would surely never adopt such a policy.
I am this close to giving up on Seagate altogether…
Suction, A Lightweight Directory Consolidator
I have put together a little program that will accept any number of directories as input and “Suction” the contents of any subdirectory to the top folder, deleting all empty subfolders left behind after the operation.
Morehpperliter was quite fond of the “Unify” function in DirUtils, which does not run on 64-bit machines and as far as I know is no longer developed, so he asked if I knew of an alternative. I did not, so I created one.
The program is simple, lightweight, and very handy if you have to wrangle a lot of files (this means you Usenet and BitTorrent users), so give it a try!
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