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On This Day: April 23, 2007
Apr 23rd
On This Day:
The first episode of The Lab With Leo Laporte first ran.
Kinemac: First 20 Minutes
Mar 25th
Part of MacHeist this year was a $300 animation app, Kinemac. I sat down and played with it, and I actually got a working animation. My biggest hang-up was making sure that the camera view is at the top of the sprites window and to make a keyframe before editing the sprite. Here is a copy of the project file.
Here is the Quicktime output of it (8 whole seconds!!) (download here.)
Best Domain Message Ever!
Feb 12th
If you don’t know, after you purchase a domain and before a site is in place there is a “parker” page which usually notifies visitors that the domain is not available and a site should be up soon–and shows ads for the registrar. Leo Laporte (accidentally) let his twitlive.tv domain expire and after re-purchasing it, shows this message.
Oops. There may be an issue with the URL Forwarding service for this
domain, in which case our technical staff is currently working the situation. Otherwise,
this domain is currently under construction and will be back online soon.
This has to be the best message ever! I love the “otherwise” statement.
CODE: GrowlHotClock.scpt
Feb 2nd
Leo Laporte has an AppleScript he uses to time himself out for his weekend radio show as the show is syndicated and if he continues past a certain time will be cut off by commercials, and so wrote an AppleScript, hotclock.scpt, it uses Quicksilver for notifications. I thought this would be of use for any viewers/listeners of his show, and so I re-wrote the tellhost() calls in it to use Growl (to be less annoying). Here is my updated code. However you may want to change the times listed to offset the radio/internet delay… More >
CODE: Applescript TWiT Army Notifier
Jan 27th
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…
