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I’ve written an Automator action that allows you to write python scripts directly inside your Automator workflow.

“Run Python Script” Automator action (catchy title) is written using Python and PyObjC (now built-in to Mac OS X 10.5). Apple already provides “Run AppleScript” and “Run Shell Script” actions with Automator which give Automator a high degree of [...]

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Daniel Jalkut of Red Sweater infamy has released FlexTime, a Mac OS X timer application. Of interest to me is that FlexTime might well be the first released Mac OS X application to make used of my Toxic Progress Indicator Cocoa Widget, as seen in the following screenshot:

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Daniel Jalkut of Red-Sweater scores a hat-trick with three very interesting blog posts. Of special interest to me, is his posting about the redesign of his blog using NodeBox. I actually introduced Daniel to NodeBox, little did I know he’d do so much with it. Very cool.

The Kip is a strange tool for archiving, indexing [...]

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AquaticPrime is a “secure registration method for your shareware applications, released as free open-source software”.

AquaticPrime uses “RSA encryption to provide excellent security – the same that is used to protect government documents”. This makes it sound like AquaticPrime is a great solution for Software Developers wanting to prevent piracy by adopting a software licensing scheme. [...]

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I’ve just updated mdfind2. The most important change is that it is now a universal binary. I’ve also improved the command-line parsing (it now uses getopt_long) and prints usage information on error.

Links:

Subversion Repository: http://toxic-public.googlecode.com/svn/tags/BlogTag_20070927_729/Spotlight/mdfind2/

Binary: http://toxic-public.googlecode.com/svn/tags/BlogTag_20070927_729/Spotlight/mdfind2/Output/mdfind2.tar.bz2

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It has been a little over 6 hours since the API for the ironcoder.org competition was announced. The first 24 hours of Iron Coder were supposed to be used as a familiarisation period to learn the API. Fortunately I’m not totally unfamiliar with the accessibility API and a year or two ago I created a [...]

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I wasn’t really impressed with the new iMeem buzzword enabled chat application until a bunch of us from #macsb poked under its hood and saw Mono sitting there. It looks like the first non-trivial (correct me if I’m wrong) Mono application has shipped for Mac OS X. And what’s more it looks good. It looks [...]

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Everyone has been posting about how cool Bare Bone’s new Yojimbo application is. But so far no one has mentioned what a really freaking cool name it has.

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I’ve written a plugin for the extremely cool VoodooPad application that allows you to write your own plugins for VoodooPad using Python. Gus (VoodooPad’s author) describes it best on his blog. Gus helped me write the plugin and provided a new plugin API in VoodooPad (which is why it requires VoodooPad 2.5.3) to help get [...]

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I’ve just released version 1.0.6 of my Python Metadata Importer plugin. What’s new:

Support for Intel architecture. UTType now includes Python’s OS Creator code. Slightly better error handling Python Metadata Importer shouldn’t die when indexing Python files it doesn’t understand.

Direct download:

Python Metadata Importer.dmg

Source code:

http://toxic-public.googlecode.com/svn/tags/BlogTag_20070927_729/Projects/Spotlight/Python%20Metadata%20Importer/

About Python Metadata Importer:

Allows Spotlight to import and index Python script source code. Various metadata are [...]

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