Tag Archives: Software

Run Python Script

Posted on December 14, 2007 by schwa

Important see updates at end of post 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 … Continue reading →

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FlexTime 1.0 finished

Posted on August 17, 2006 by schwa

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 … Continue reading →

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Quickies

Posted on June 15, 2006 by schwa

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 … Continue reading →

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AquaticPrime Warning

Posted on June 7, 2006 by schwa

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 … Continue reading →

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mdfind2 updated

Posted on June 3, 2006 by schwa

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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Iron Coder – Progress Report 1

Posted on March 4, 2006 by schwa

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 … Continue reading →

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iMeem

Posted on January 27, 2006 by schwa

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 … Continue reading →

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A Fistful of Yojimbos

Posted on January 23, 2006 by schwa

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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Python Plugin Enabler for Voodoo Pad

Posted on January 22, 2006 by schwa

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 … Continue reading →

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Python Metadata Importer 1.0.6 Released

Posted on January 22, 2006 by schwa

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. … Continue reading →

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