Wow. It’s been a while since I posted.
I’ve been working on a little Mac OS X Tiger only tool that uses Tiger’s Spotlight feature to find duplicate files using Spotlight metadata as the duplicate matching criteria.
This turns out to be a really powerful way of finding duplicate files no matter what the type. The same [...]
Tags:Software
What is iRoster?
iRoster is a small and convenient tool for finding and connecting to Rendezvous enabled services on your network such as web servers, Apple File Sharing (AFP) servers, and others.
iRoster provides easy access to Rendezvous services on your network from a menu accessible within its dock icon (or from the menubar). iRoster can also advertise [...]
iCalToRSS is a tool I wrote partly because I wanted to find out how difficult it would be to do. With NetNewsWire 2.0’s “Special Subscription” functionality and PyRSS2Gen it turned out to be pretty easy. I also wrote it because unlike iCal NetNewsWire is a tool I keep running on my PowerBook constantly and I [...]
Tags:Software
Version 0.4 just uploaded hot on the heals of 0.3. This one fixes an important bug that could have prevented the iCalToRSS from reading a calendar file at all. Hopefully iCalToRSS should be able to generate RSS feeds for pretty much every calendar out there - if it doesn’t please send me the calendar file [...]
Tags:Software
iCalToRSS version 0.3 has just been uploaded. This version fixes a couple of RSS creation issues and adds support for the “webcal:” URL scheme and UNIX file paths. And if there was a seeding release of Mac OS X 10.4 that changes the way iCal files are stored then this release would fix that.
Download: iCalToRSS.tar.gz
Thanks [...]
Tags:Software
I hesitate to call this a release - there’s only one significant change to my iCal to RSS tool: if you do not configure iCalToRSS with a URL then it will produce feeds for all your calendar files. Download here: iCalToRSS.tar.gz
Tags:Software
iCalToRSS; is a set of Python scripts I wrote for retrieving iCa events and TODO items and displaying them as RSS newsfeeds inside ;NetNewsWire 2.
I wrote the Python code to parse the iCal calendar files (which are standard RFC2425 Mime-Dir files) and then I use PyRSS2Gen to output the events as RSS news items. Finally [...]
Turns out that one of iRoster’s embedded frameworks was left linking to libSaturn (part of CHUD). Anyone without CHUD installed (i.e. most non-developers) will not have been able to launch iRoster. I’ve fixed it and posted a new version. There are no differences between 1.0b11 and 1.0b10 beyond this one fix.
That’ll teach me for testing [...]
After nine months iRoster 1.0b10 is finally available.
Bug fix and general spring cleaning release.
iRoster now supports over 170 Rendezvous services. A simple browser window has been added to iRoster. Browsing and publishing of services can now be controlled via the Rendezvous Menu.
If you were running previous versions of iRoster then your preferences will have been reset. This [...]
I googled for iRoster just now because I’m a little bit bored. Boy did I get a weird hit. Just over two weeks ago someone decided to turn the iRoster icon into a wallpaper for KDE. Um ok. It sure is a purty icon (thanks to http://iconizer.com/) but I’m not sure even I would want [...]