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The following screen shots clearly demonstrate that Electronic Arts intends to fleece Australian consumers by charging them more for the same digital downloads as they do to US consumers.

The first image is of the AU EA Origin store, and the price is clearly $23.95.

The second image is of the US EA Origin store, accessed via a VPN, and the price is clearly $14.95.

The third image is of the AU/US exchange rate. $1 AUD is currently buying $1.01 USD.

Electronic Arts, why do you think you can treat Aussie consumers like crap?

I rest my case.

I have bunch of files to which I want to apply the “Old Photos” GIMP filter.

For the uninitiated, Old Photos turns this:

into this:

This is a very simple script which will apply the Old Photos filter to every file matching the pattern you supply when you run GIMP. It has no “undo” function and it will save over the input files so be sure to make backups of the originals and only run this script on copies.

To call it you run:

You can download make-many-old-photos.scm here or click here to view the code.

This is a bash script I wrote which will read an m3u play list, copy all files into a specified directory, and optionally change the “album” and “track number” tag.

I use it as an intermittent step to copy or burn the LastFM play lists which Exaile generates.

The script requires id3tag to tag mp3 files and AtomicParsley to tag m4a files.

Check that the md5 sum matches fb893b406c9eb6379bd0b09ed0e38345.

DO NOT DOWNLOAD IT FROM ANY OTHER SOURCE.

Click here to download.

It appears that the Joomla to Coppermine sync script I wrote and gave away in September 2006 is quite popular (judging by the number of 404 errors logged on that particular file). Baring in mind the following points, I offer it to the world for download once more:-

1. It is a one way synchronisation from the Joomla CMS 1.0.x series membership database to the Coppermine Gallery membership database. The proper way to use this would be to deactivate registrations in Coppermine, and instead rely on the system in Joomla.
2. Backup your databases before testing it.
3. I recommend using it only if you are proficient in SQL and PHP
4. You will need to call this periodically to keep the database in sync (set up a cron job if able)
5. It is released under the version 2 (or at your option any latter version) of the GPL license and is open source.