Archive for January, 2009

Mac App: Transmit

The people at panic.com have created a FTP program: Transmit.  Transmit interfaces with FTP, SFTP, TLS/SSL, iDisk (WedDAV), and Amazon S3.  Transmit takes full advantage of the Cocoa API with ‘dock upload’, just drag a file to the dock to upload it, it includes a Dashboard widget, interfaces with Automator and Spotlight, and can edit remote files in any native applications.  Transmit 3 costs $29.95.

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Opinion: Zii Labs (ZMS)

Over the past many decades other perspectives of computation have come into the spotlight.  These include RISC, hardware encoders/decoders, or more interesting, quantum computing…<!—more–>  The last of those has yet to amount to anything: quantum computers appear to me to be snake oil, and now there’s a new contender in the field of snake-oil computing.  Zii (pronounced like the American pronunciation of the letter ‘z’), the “stem cell (spelled incorrectly on the website as one word) computing”.  Zii is a Creative company, Creative being the sound processor company. Basically, if you’re at all interested take a look at the Zii website (www.zii.com) and watch their video.  If you’re reading this, don’t get your hopes up: when a new ideology in computation comes a long it takes many years for developers to be able to build even the basic steps.  But, maybe I’m wrong, we are talking about Creative here! Oh, wait, weren’t they the company with the whole “crystallizer” technology, that could supposedly able to make MP3’s sounds as good as the original CDs by recreating the data using a crystal.  Considering this is nothing worth looking at, my only question is: "so is the Canadian/British division of the company ‘zed’?”

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Reminder: MacHeist – 6 Days

Just a note, the people at MacHeist(.com) are announcing… something… in 6 days. In the mean time you can twitter “@macheist” and you tweet will show on the page.

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CODE: IRC Notifier

This is some more of the Applescript I’ve been poking around with: this one notifies for IRC. So far I have it established how to notify someone when a user enters/exits, I have no idea how to notify on keyword, response, etc… This requires Applescript on any version of Mac OS X and Growl. Code follows…
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CODE: Applescript TWiT Army Notifier

I’ve taken inspiration from Leo Laporte’s “hotclock.scpt” and have developed a TWiT Army Notifier. This script requires Mac OS X, Quicksilver, and (optimally) Growl. All of this is free.

To execute this you have to open the Script Editor in the Application folder, copy and paste the following code into the editor, then press Save As under the File menu. Select Application and check the ‘Stay Open’ option…

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