Archive for November, 2007

Bookmarklet it

November 18, 2007

Over at Daring Fireball is a great way to make your bookmarklets without having to try and put it together in your browser’s tiny bookmark address field (provided you have TextWrangler or BBEdit).  This might be a good candidate for a Dashboard Widget to create them … or even better – a bookmarklet!

Flyback: Linux follows not leads

November 8, 2007

Something to keep an eye on: Flyback, an implementation of Time Machine for linux, based on the fact that rsync and the underlying hardlink filesystems are already there in most linux distributions.  Good point. But isn’t the point that again linux and open source developers have missed the boat?
Don’t get me wrong.  I love open source [...]

Google Data & PHP4

November 6, 2007

It doesn’t work.  I was looking at writing a module for Exponent to integrate Picasa Web Albums, but I can’t because the Google Data Client Library for PHP requires PHP5 and our lamo webhosters are still running PHP4.  That’s why if you look at the code for the webalbummodule you’ll see it’s not a real [...]

Exponent Web Album Module

November 6, 2007

Web Album Module 1.0 for Exponent (tgz)
Update: Since my web hosting provider deleted my site this is probably gone forever.  It may be in my sprawling archives somewhere, and if I ever find it I’ll make it available for download again.  Leave a comment it you’d like me to step up the search!
 
Whilst developing our [...]

AppScript Launches on Leopard

November 6, 2007

An AppleScript to quickly launch applications
AppScript Launcher 0.1 | Source Code
Just a quick note to say that AppScript Launcher has now been tested on Leopard. It didn’t actually need any changes but the original 0.1 release works fine on Leopard as is.
More info on AppScript Launcher.
Tested on:

Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger)
Mac OS X 10.5 [...]