I was looking for this a while back. Now I've foundn it...

MacLorem generates random filler text for artists, graphic designers, typesetters and others who need to generate mock-ups or spec art for clients, publishers or employers

Konfabulator is a pretty slick little widget engine. Where widgets are resources and JavaScript functions wrapped up in an XML description that controls layout, configuration and display. Oodles of hackable possibilities for new widgets...

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(12:32) [/Computers/OSX/Apps] #

Installed myself a copy of MailPictures yesterday. It's an add-on bundle to Mail.app that adds a X-Image-Url header to outgoing email that can be used to fetch an image and display when reading mail.

Interestingly the ability to display an image has always been in Mail.app, but just isn't advertised by Apple. (I wonder what other goodies may be lurking in there). MailPictures just intercepts the method that looks up the image and checks to see if the X-Image-Url header is present. If so, it downloads the image and stores it in the cache (~/Library/Caches/com.apple.addressservices/Photos on Jaguar, ~/Library/Images/People on 10.1.x)

Even more curiously, Mail.app doesn't use images you may have stored in your AddressBook. (this seems like an oversight)

So, I modified the source to MailPictures to check the AddressBook for an image if one hasn't been found by either of the other two techniques. The author of MailPictures says he'll put this in the next version, but for now you can download it from me if you want (send an email if you want the source too):
    MailPictures-2.0.AB.dmg (208 kb)

(10:09) [/Computers/OSX/Apps] #

That's right, Homeland Alert will display a little color-coded ball in the menu bar indicating the current threat level:

Unfortunately, the government has not set up any kind of automated way of checking this information. After I had installed the app I started poking around to see where the info came from and found that there was a difference between the "yellow" I was getting from the app, and the "orange" being reported by the White House Homeland Security site.

I emailed the author of Homeland Alert, who responded that the Attny General just announced a lowered threat level and he has updated the app accordingly. (it just checks a little CGI on the exittoshell.com site)

So, this raises a few issues... first, it'd be nice if they could update the whitehouse.gov site to reflect the current status. It still hasn't been updated (as of around 1:15p), although it does say that it was last updated Sept. 24th (today).

And, how hard would it be for them to have a page that just says "yellow", not to mention a SOAP or XML-RPC interface? How many billions are they pumping into homeland defense and they can't even pay a college intern $20 to set it up?

OK, even though this whole threat level scheme is essentially useless and was probably only designed for the PR uses... I still think it's a fun app...
(10:32) [/Computers/OSX/Apps] #

Got my old posts out of blogger (the hard way!) and created blosxom posts for them. Unfortunately I don't have access to mod_rewrite on www.gnik.com so I can't make my urls look all nice and pretty... oh well...
(21:03) [/Computers/OSX/Apps/blosxom] #

Added preliminary support for a little calendar showing days with posts... What works: - current month - within a category Still todo: - navigate to previous months - look into scalability (100's, 1000's of posts?)
(13:58) [/Computers/OSX/Apps/blosxom] #

Added support to blosxom to insert HTML line breaks before all newlines in a post. This makes writing psuedo-HTML fun and easy! The diff from 0+5i:   29a30,32   > # Insert <br> tags with newlines?   > my $insert_br = 1;   >   111a115   > $body =~ s/\n/<br>\n/g if $insert_br;
(12:08) [/Computers/OSX/Apps/blosxom] #

I guess it may be desireable that when you modify a post to have it re-posted with the modification time... But what if you don't want that to happen? What if you copy all your files and loose the modification times? What if your website hosting facility is in another timezone and all the times come out in the wrong timezone after bing rsync'ed?
(10:35) [/Computers/OSX/Apps/blosxom] #

Plugging one of the holes in iCal, this little app will create events in a select calendar for any birthdays in your Address Book. It's a cocoa app that uses AppleScript to copy in the events... apparently this doesn't allow all day events, and if the event already exists you'll get two...

I was thinking of writing one that would maintain it's own calendar... that way it could create it from scratch each time? Keep it in your Sites/ directory and subscribe to it? Maybe... link
(09:25) [/Computers/OSX/Apps/iCal] #

Keyboard switching application... with 10.2, couldn't get the cmd-tab to work (because of the new OS app switching), but option-tab does the trick... installed LiteSwitch X 1.0.1... link
(08:12) [/Computers/OSX/Apps] #