Presented below is a selection of software, construction projects, mini-sites, ideas & thoughts from the mind of magnetikonline.com. Note that some of these projects are no longer actively maintained, but are provided in the hope that someone else may find them of interest.
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Fetch Album Art PHP script
Command line PHP script to automatically fetch album art for an organised MP3 music collection, using images from the Amazon product database via Amazon Web Services.
Sysstat Graph
Web based frontend to the SYSSTAT collection of performance monitoring tools for Linux. Sysstat Graph processes daily reports from SYSSTAT using PHP5 and renders graphs client side using Javascript and the canvas element.
Webalizer PHP
PHP5 script that provides serving up of Webalizer web statistics behind a simple user login system. In addition the script rewrites the default Webalizer HTML into valid XHTML to provide lighter pages that can be styled via CSS.
miPics ASP.NET 2.0 photo gallery
Simple photo gallery application using ASP.NET 2.0 and MS-SQL 2005. Features full XHTML/CSS compliant pages, automatic image upload resizing and RSS feed of galleries.
php & mysql search engine
Article and mini-example for the basis of a functional and efficient full text search engine using php and mysql.
php xmltv grabber
A simple php script to generate from Internet data, XMLTV feeds for use with compatible HTPC/PVR software such as MediaPortal or ShowShifter. All delivered in under 400 lines of pure php code.
auto-play
Auto-Play is a freeware software package for win32 based operating systems, developed in Visual Basic 6 to be used as an in-car PC based multimedia playback software package. As featured in Smart TV & Sound Magazine.
mp3swift car audio system
Details the construction of an mp3car computer system installed in a 1996 Suzuki Swift hatch. As seen in The Age & Sydney Morning Herald newspapers October 23rd, 2003.
md titler
Details hardware construction and software written in Visual Basic 6, to assist with automatic track management and naming when recording digital music from a PC to a Pre-USB version Sony Minidisc recorder.
