Piddlepodder is a podcatching client. It imitates the simplicity of bashpodder with a few added features. It downloads podcasts from a list of XML feeds and puts them into a download directory by date. No effort is made to copy the resulting files to an iPod, nor will this application interface with a directory, since it's just a simple podcatcher.
PMCam is a program that allows you to set up a webcam on a remote site through FTP and perl. It uses qcam to grab the image, mogrify to do the conversion to JPEG, and Net::FTP in perl to FTP the files to the server. The program's RC file should be configurable, though to allow any camera or converison programs.
An Apache2 module for displaying preprocessed Lua with a PHP-like syntax.