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AppleTV Perl plugin

Phil @ Make writes: Erica has a special treat for Perl folks with Apple TVs!

On Sunday, with a hundred better things to do but no incentive to do them, I put together an Apple TV plug-in that allows you to run any Perl script you place into a folder in your home directory. (/Users/frontrow/perlbin).

The idea is this: a lot of people know how to write Perl who don't want to learn to program Cocoa. And you can add new scripts from your normal office work computer (via ssh) but have them all available from Apple TV. You can do date & time, calendars, stock quotes, weather, and so forth. Scrape web pages, subscribe to RSS feeds, whatever.

The plug-in is here - Link (zip).

Related:

• HOW TO - Run AppleTV on a Mac mini - Link.
• AppleTV OS on a Mac mini - Link.
• AppleTV hack weekend - Link.

Posted by | Apr 10, 2007 06:00 AM
AppleTV, Mac, Perl | Permalink | Comments (0)

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