What’s next?
January 5, 2007 at 1:52 am | In Automator, Mac OS X | 6 CommentsImageShack Uploader has last been updated exactly 5 months ago. Version 1.1 was just to clean up the interface (removed the donation button, since nobody would use it anyway) and make it look nicer compared to standard actions.
In these 5 months I’ve been busy writing an image management app and have spent zero time thinking about Uploader. It’s still on the front page of Automatorworld, which tells me Automator might not be that big of a hit with users, or AW has been neglected.
There have been over 2000 downloads but only two people ever contacted me with requests to improve Uploader. I can’t tell how many people actually use Uploader, so maybe I’m the only remaining user.
Some developers might be more willing to update their freeware offerings, but Uploader fills the need I had for it and any more time spent on it would be a loss. If Leopard breaks compatibility with Uploader, I’ll probably update it, but that might not happen for a while after it has been released.
Thank’s a lot, Fastmail.fm
October 28, 2006 at 11:00 pm | In Uncategorized | Leave a CommentI’ve finally had the honor to be partake in one of the renowned server failures at fastmail.fm. This still does not make me want to switch to GMail et al. I would just be paying them something other than actual money. I assumed FM wouldn’t keep my messages to inifity and beyond, but I’d like to read them at least.
Update: It works again after the weekend and everybody got a month of free service added to their subscription. As a precaution, I’ve set up a GMail account to serve as a backup.
iTunes 7 + Skip Count
September 12, 2006 at 10:54 pm | In Apple | Leave a CommentiTunes 7 is out and I’ll need some more time to grok its new look, but I’ve already found the time to include one non-obvious new feature in my Smart Playlists, Skip Count.
It works like this: If you skip a song the Skip Count gets increased, but you can’t use the mouse to skip – that would be seeking not skipping. Also, it only increases the count if you skip between the playtime of 0:02 and 0:20. Songs that are shorter than 20sec will never have their Skip Count increased. I’d prefer to have the skipping start a few seconds later and last a little longer. Between 5sec and 50% of the playtime would have been my suggestion.
Too bad my 3G iPod will most certainly not support this feature, even if it would not be impossible to add with a firmware update.
Automator Juggling
August 23, 2006 at 10:32 am | In Automator | Leave a CommentThis little Applescript Snippet could be useful if you need to juggle 2 values in a workflow. I use it to put the name of a folder on the Clipboard, while I hand on the URL that was on the clipboard before. Later I use the the name on the Clipboard to rename a default folder containing downloaded images.
It goes like this: URL is on Clipboard
Create Default Folder -> Get Clipboard -> Script determines foldername -> Swap Clipboard -> Download Images to Default Folder -> Get Clipboard -> Rename Default Folder
on run {input, parameters}
set clipped_data to the clipboard as string
set the clipboard to input as stringreturn (clipped_data)
end run
ImageShack Uploader 1.1
August 8, 2006 at 10:55 am | In Automator | 6 CommentsRight now I’m still testing the new version. Some of the changes include:
- renamed the Action to “Upload to ImageShack” to better fit the style guides
- changed result from Text to URLs
- does no longer mention that it requires curl, because it’s part of a standard Tiger install.
- added a Readme
I’ll give it a few more days and then submit the update to Automator World.
Update: I’ve made a few more changes and cleaned up the interface – it’s blank now, see the image in the previous post. Almost ready.
ImageShack Uploader – An Automator Action
August 8, 2006 at 9:01 am | In Automator | 1 CommentWelcome to the new home of ImageShack Uploader. I made version 1.0 available a couple of days ago and it’s a free download, only at Automator World. Don’t be confused by the different Homepage, it will change in an upcoming update. I already use it extensively in my workflows, like the one used to frame and scale the following image.
example workflow
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