Free camera hacks with google software for linux

Camera Monitor is a little tray system icon that notifies you when your Webcam is on. The project is designed for the GNOME desktop, but will work as well on KDE and XFCE.
Camera Monitor is released under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
Installation:
tar xzf laptoptemp-0.2.tar.gz
cd cameramonitor-0.1
./configure
sudo make install
Enhancements:
- Added support for libnotify
- Ported to new gtk.StatusIcon
- Updated preferences panel
- Updated about information
- Removed notification on bad previous exit
- Added option to preferences for autostarting cameramonitor every session

Google Hacks project is a compilation of carefully crafted Google searches that expose novel functionality from Googles search and map services.

For example, you can use it to view a timeline of your search results, view a map, search for music, search for books, and perform many other specific kinds of searches.

Xtra Screen Hacks is a collection of graphics display modes that are meant to be run with a daemon such as XScreenSaver.

"Daisy" draws spinning flowers, and "Twinkle" draws a twinkling star field.

Compilation of Xtra Screen Hacks depends only on xlib.

Installation:

The configure script is not up and running yet, so the Makefiles and config.h are hacked versions of the ones xscreensavers configure script generated on the authors machine. If your system differs from the authors (i686 Debian GNU/Linux) then the build will probably not work for you, unless you hack the Makefiles and possibly config.h to modify the variables and defines.

If the Makefiles and config.h are ok, then simply run

$ make

to generate the binaries. They will be in the hacks directory.
If you have a copy of XScreensaver installed from the tarball, run

$ make install

If not, you will need to copy the files to their target directories by hand. Search for deluxe, deluxe.xml, and deluxe.1 (or deluxe.man, deluxe.6x.gz, etc) using locate, find, or whereis to figure out where they should go. The binaries and xml files must be in the correct directories
to work properly with xscreensaver-demo.

You will need to add entries to your .xscreensaver file by hand. Open $HOME/.xscreensaver in your favorite text editor and paste the following two lines into the "programs" section:

--snip----------------
- daisy -root n
- twinkle -root n
--snip----------------

Then run xscreensaver-demo to activate and configure the hacks.

If you dont have XScreensaver at all, just enjoy the hacks in an X window.

If make install worked for you, type

$ make uninstall

when you no longer want the new screen hacks.

Geo::Coder::Google is a Perl module for Google Maps Geocoding API.

SYNOPSIS

use Geo::Coder::Google;

my $geocoder = Geo::Coder::Google->new(apikey => Your API Key);
my $location = $geocoder->geocode( location => Hollywood and Highland, Los Angeles, CA );

Geo::Coder::Google provides a geocoding functionality using Google Maps API.

METHODS

new

$geocoder = Geo::Coder::Google->new(apikey => Your API Key);
$geocoder = Geo::Coder::Google->new(apikey => Your API Key, host => maps.google.co.jp);

Creates a new geocoding object. You should pass a valid Google Maps API Key as apikey parameter.

When youd like to query Japanese address, you might want to set host parameter, which should point to maps.google.co.jp. I think this also applies to other countries like UK (maps.google.co.uk), but so far I only tested with .com and .co.jp.

geocode

$location = $geocoder->geocode(location => $location);
@location = $geocoder->geocode(location => $location);

Queries $location to Google Maps geocoding API and returns hash refernece returned back from API server. When you cann the method in an array context, it returns all the candidates got back, while it returns the 1st one in a scalar context.
When youd like to pass non-ascii string as a location, you should pass it as either UTF-8 bytes or Unicode flagged string.

Returned data structure is as follows:

{
AddressDetails => {
Country => {
AdministrativeArea => {
SubAdministrativeArea => {
SubAdministrativeAreaName => San Francisco,
Locality => {
PostalCode => {
PostalCodeNumber => 94107
},
LocalityName => San Francisco,
Thoroughfare => {
ThoroughfareName => 548 4th St
}
}
},
AdministrativeAreaName => CA
},
CountryNameCode => US
}
},
address => 548 4th St, San Francisco, CA 94107, USA,
Point => {
coordinates => [
-122.397323,
37.778993,
0
]
}
}

WWW::Cache::Google::Imode is a URI class for Google proxy on i-mode.

SYNOPSIS

use WWW::Cache::Google::Imode;

$cache = WWW::Cache::Google::Imode->new(http://www.yahoo.com/);

$url = $cache->as_string; # cache URL
$html = $cache->fetch; # fetches via LWP::Simple

Easy conversion from HTML to CHTML. Thats google on i-mode!
WWW::Cache::Google::Imode provides an easy way conversion from an URL to Google i-mode proxy/cache URL.

PurpleWiki::Search::Google is a Perl module to search google from PurpleWiki.

SYNOPSIS

This module includes the top ten results from google.com for a query when performing a search in PurpleWiki.

Search results from google.com can be accessed the SOAP remote API. This module uses that API to pass a query from PurpleWiki to google to retrieve the top ten results.

To enable this search changes must be made to the PurpleWiki configuration file, config:

SearchModule = Google
GoogleWSDL = /path/to/GoogleSearch.wsdl
GoogleKey =

To get a google API key, visit http://www.google.com/apis/

Lyrics::Fetcher::Google is a Perl module to get some lyrics.

SYNOPSIS

use Lyrics::Fetcher;

$Lyrics::Fetcher::gid = ;

print Lyrics::Fetcher->fetch(" "," ","Google");

This module tries to find lyrics on the web. Sometimes it works. But it probably wont.
It searches google for an initial set. It then finds the largest block of plain text in the top 5 results. Those results are then compared to one another and weighted.

The idea being that a large block of text on one site may be a bunch of poo, but a large area of similar text on multiple sites most likely is the lyrics for which you are looking.

Net::Google::tool is a base class for Net::Google service classes.

Base class and shared methods for Net::Google service classes.

SYNOPSIS

use Net::Google;
use constant LOCAL_GOOGLE_KEY => "********************************";

my $google = Net::Google->new(key=>LOCAL_GOOGLE_KEY);
my $search = $google->search();

# Search interface

$search->query(qw(aaron straup cope));
$search->lr(qw(en fr));
$search->starts_at(5);
$search->max_results(15);

map { print $_->title()."n"; } @{$search->results()};

# or...

foreach my $r (@{$search->response()}) {
print "Search time :".$r->searchTime()."n";

# returns an array ref of Result objects
# the same as the $search->results() method
map { print $_->URL()."n"; } @{$r->resultElements()};
}

# Spelling interface

print $google->spelling(phrase=>"muntreal qwebec")->suggest(),"n";

# Cache interface

my $cache = $google->cache(url=>"http://search.cpan.org/recent");
print $cache->get();