The TwitterFax is a small project done together with Konst & Teknik. It will watch a given Twitter username for mentions and then print it, together with any twitpics or yimg images attached to it. The code is pretty simple and uses the Twitter gem for communicating with Twitter and Prawn to genereate the PDF’s. [...]
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Download torrent files from Twitter DMs
Here’s a simple ruby script to download torrent files in Safari sent to you/an account as URLs in Twitter direct messages. It could be used on your home server to download torrent files you send to it from something like your iPad. I’ve set it up to run every fifth minute (using cron) to check [...]