Jake Wharton

The 1.5.2 release of mkvdts2ac3 is a minor update which addresses two common complaints with the script:

1. The free space checking on OS X has now been corrected in order to function properly and should no longer result in errors. The new argument for the df command has been verified to work on Linux, OS X, and Windows/Cygwin.
2. User defaults can now be specified in a ~/.mkvdts2ac3.rc file. This will allow you to specify global defaults for the majority of the options normally configured via command-line arguments. For the file layout see the “User Defaults” section of the README file.

Version 1.5.2 can be download on the GitHub project’s download page in either tarball or zip formats.

A Dutch translation of version 1.5.1 was also graciously done by Govert Pennings which is also available at the top of the aforementioned download page. Version 1.6.0 is in development which will feature string localizations.

Wakka Wallpaper is an Android live wallpaper which emulates a popular 1980’s arcade game around your launcher icons.

Market link: http://tinyurl.com/24calz7 or search “Wakka Wallpaper”

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py-videodownloader is a python script which allows for the downloading of videos from the major online providers of streaming video. Currently it supports only YouTube and Vimeo but is modularized so adding other services is fairly simple. It is based off of the py-youtube-downloader script written by chexov.

To use, run the script with a target provider and the video ID you wish to download:

$ ./video-downloader.py -p Vimeo 5720832
$ ./video-downloader.py -p YouTube tgbNymZ7vqY

The above two commands will download one video from both Vimeo and YouTube. Since both videos are available in HD we can pass the respective arguments to download the Vimeo video in 720 and the YouTube video in 1080p:

$ ./video-downloader.py -p Vimeo -f hd 5720832
$ ./video-downloader.py -p YouTube -f 37 tgbNymZ7vqY

You may optionally pass an output directory with the -d or --directory argument. For a list of formats for a specified provider run the command without any video IDs:

$ ./video-downloader.py -p YouTube
video-downloader-1.1.0 - by Jake Wharton <jakewharton@gmail.com>

Format     Description
---------- ----------------------------------------
13         176x144 3GP/AMR Mono 3GP
17         176x144 3GP/AAC Mono 3GP
22         1280x720 H.264/AAC Stereo MP4
18         480x360/480x270 H.264/AAC Stereo MP4
37         1920x1080 H.264/AAC Stereo MP4
35         640x480/640x360 H.264/AAC Stereo FLV
34         320x240 H.264/AAC Stereo FLV
5          320x240 H.263/MP3 Mono FLV
6          320x240 H.263/MP3 Mono FLV

The source code for the script as well as download links are available via the GitHub project page.

jQValidate is a plugin for jQuery and jQuery UI which validates form inputs based on a set of rules. It differs a bit from most other validation plugins as it uses jQuery selectors to target form elements instead of the HTML id or form element name. This allows you to easily validate multiple form elements using the same rules by including them in the selector.

You can find jQValidate on GitHub at http://github.com/JakeWharton/jQValidate. Documentation is essentially non-existent right now (much like all my projects) but you can get a good idea of how the plugin works by looking at test/index.html. In the forthcoming weeks full documentation will be created.

While jQValidate was written from scratch, huge inspiration and convention was obtained from Felix Nagel’s jQuery-Accessible-RIA plugin. jQValidate was born due to unique needs from a validation plugin and an inability to modify jQuery-Accessible-RIA to fit them without a major rewrite. If you enjoy this plugin please also look at jQuery-Accessible-RIA which is also available on GitHub at http://github.com/fnagel/jQuery-Accessible-RIA.

Update: Live demo of the test file which is included in the repository can be found at http://sandbox.jakewharton.com/jqvalidate.html.