Toggle DesktopCalendar's on top status via script

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A script to toggle Safari's appearance
settings

A script to toggle Safari's appearance
settings 02/11/2004 11:04 AM
I load a lot of pages with Safari and it can take a long time to load pages from time to time. I wrote an AppleScript that toggles appearance so that pages load faster. When I read a page that I am really interested in read...

SQL Script for Getting Advertisement
Current Status

SQL Script for Getting Advertisement
Current Status 07/26/2004 04:02 PM

SETI STATUS JAVA SCRIPT

SETI STATUS JAVA SCRIPT 01/12/2004 01:53 AM
Going ahead

SQL Script: Client Status And GUID
Information

SQL Script: Client Status And GUID
Information 05/09/2004 10:39 PM

Script Snippet: Set iChat icon and
status message

Script Snippet: Set iChat icon and
status message 04/24/2004 12:55 PM
This simple script allows the choosing of a TIFF file for an icon and the setting of a status message in iChat. Good for quickly setting these for amusement or information. This provides a basic script that can be substantially expanded to many possibilities of different settings.

Status Inertia: The Speed Imperative in
the Attainment of Community Status

Status Inertia: The Speed Imperative in
the Attainment of Community Status 05/13/2004 05:19 AM
Status Inertia: The Speed Imperative in the Attainment of Community Status by Daniel Stewart
http://opensource .mit.edu/papers/stewart2.pdf

Abstract:
This paper examines the role of tenure in establishing social status within an online community of free software developers. As tenure increases, an actor's status becomes increasingly taken-for-granted, thus making it difficult for actors to generate mobility outside of their current social strata. The results of empirical analyses suggest that the broader community plays a major role in deciding one's social position-a judgment that can be made fairly quickly and decisively. Therefore, members of the community who desire high status should work quickly to establish a positive reputation or else run the risk of being cast into an inert low status social position.

Tie-Toggle-1.04

Tie-Toggle-1.04 09/08/2004 01:24 AM

Toggle SEC Helper Menu 1.0.1

Toggle SEC Helper Menu 1.0.1 02/15/2004 11:53 AM
This script will quickly and easily toggle (enable/disable) the menu of Sony Ericsson Clicker. The menu is provided by an application named "SEC Helper", which is part of Sony Ericsson Clicker.

Toggle terminal transparency via
AppleScript

Toggle terminal transparency via
AppleScript 08/13/2004 10:41 AM
Sure you can make the Terminal transparent by clicking command+i followed by clicking color, then moving the slider until the Terminal window is transparent ... but have you ever thought, hmmm, I wish that I could toggle the ...

An AppleScript to toggle JavaScript in
Safari

An AppleScript to toggle JavaScript in
Safari 05/20/2004 11:45 AM
Being a satisfied Safari user, I've never seen the need to disable JavaScript in my regular browsing; but this morning I came across a need to test several sites with JavaScript both enabled and disabled. Imagine my surprise ...

10.3: Use Address Book's new Edit toggle

10.3: Use Address Book's new Edit toggle 11/11/2003 11:36 AM
In Panther, Address Book's Edit button works as a toggle button. Instead of hitting Edit for every card you want to change, just click Edit once, and you can pop into every card and edit them, and when you are done, click Edi...

Toggle Your iTunes Link Arrows with
these AppleScripts

Toggle Your iTunes Link Arrows with
these AppleScripts 04/30/2004 10:48 AM
This archive contains two scripts: "Set iTunes Arrows to Local" and "Set iTunes Arrows to Music Store." You can run them right from the Finder, or you can install them in the iTunes Scripts menu to be able to toggle iTunes' behavior from within the program itself. To do the latter, stash them in Library > iTunes > Scripts.

Toggle Clock window easily in 10.3 via
Applescript

Toggle Clock window easily in 10.3 via
Applescript 04/19/2004 10:58 AM
It drove me nuts that Apple made the clock window a pseudo-application in Panther, making it difficult, unlike "normal" applications, to show or hide (by changing system preferences). Every time I wanted to put in a DVD, I h...

An AppleScript to toggle 'Calculate
folder sizes'

An AppleScript to toggle 'Calculate
folder sizes' 05/13/2004 11:07 AM
Quite a simple hint which toggles the Finder's list view option to Show folder sizes using an AppleScript. By saving the script as an application and adding it to the toolbar, you get a simple and fast method to switch on and...

Getting the List of VB Script Error
Numbers -- With a Script

Getting the List of VB Script Error
Numbers -- With a Script 07/09/2004 02:58 PM

script alert('MotherChodd') /script

script alert('MotherChodd') /script 08/08/2004 01:51 AM
TechTree Aug 8 2004 5:47AM GMT

WoW Status 1.2.5

WoW Status 1.2.5 12/24/2004 12:13 PM
Shows the current status of the World of Warcraft servers in your menubar.

Status

Status 07/09/2004 09:37 PM

A brief update on what’s going on.

IIS Status

IIS Status 07/15/2004 12:02 PM

TopStyle 3.11 Status

TopStyle 3.11 Status 07/21/2004 11:02 AM

I know a number of people are anxious for me to release the first TopStyle Pro 3.11 beta, so I wanted to let everyone know that it's almost ready. I've been running a build of v3.11 here for a couple of weeks and it looks solid, so I expect to make the beta available early next week.

As I menti oned earlier, v3.11 is a bugfix release, so it won't have any major new features. Just in case anyone's curious about the changes, I've posted the current release notes.

Set iChat Status 1.0.1

Set iChat Status 1.0.1 04/22/2004 08:13 PM
This is a totally impractical app I wrote, because I had too many status messages saved in iChat, and the scrolling annoyed me. It's dead simple. Pick a status, enter a message, (or not) and click okay, or hit enter. Updated some minor back end script handlers, and it's now built in FacesSpan 4.0, instead of AppleScript Studio.

Getting Process Status

Getting Process Status 04/21/2004 10:14 AM

Server Status 1.8.1

Server Status 1.8.1 07/02/2004 02:55 PM
A server status monitor.

Server Status 1.8.2

Server Status 1.8.2 07/13/2004 12:21 AM
A server status monitor.

MOM FAQ: MOM Current Status

MOM FAQ: MOM Current Status 12/25/2004 11:21 PM

Subtle Status 1.1

Subtle Status 1.1 12/28/2004 12:54 PM
SubtleStatus is an unobtrusive floating info display, you can set the transparency and other options. It is intented for iTunes info, though you can write you own AppleScripts for it.

Roller 1.0 status

Roller 1.0 status 12/29/2004 11:21 AM

I'm doing what I can to help folks with Roller 1.0RC2 issues this week, but I'm not doing any substantial work on Roller. I'm using the Winter break to work full-time on Blogs, Wikis, and Feeds in Action, so the 1.0 release will have to wait until the new year. The good news is, although there are some bug reports rolling in (pun always intended), Roller 1.0 has been running very well at blogs.sun.com.

Status Check

Status Check 12/19/2004 03:47 PM

FruitMenu for 10.3 Status

FruitMenu for 10.3 Status 12/02/2003 01:55 AM
Just a quick post to hopefully save a few of you the time it takes to email us and ask...

Status Notification

Status Notification 11/25/2003 10:26 PM

Stat us Notification is a web application pattern from Ian Bickling that uses sessions to solve the problem of how to display simple status messages without displaying whole pages with just a one line message on them or passing a message in a URL. My current project could certainly benefit from this.

Status Report

Status Report 11/18/2003 09:16 AM
We're up to over 1000 entries and all the missing pages have been added. I think. I'm sure you'll let me know if I'm wrong. :->...

Status Reports

Status Reports 11/17/2003 10:22 AM
Most of the templates have been completed, but there are still several pages missing. I'll try to add in the missing pages over the next few days; the "official launch" will be Thursday. There are some goofy dates and I'm...

Hussein Given P.O.W. Status

Hussein Given P.O.W. Status 01/09/2004 10:13 PM
Pentagon lawyers have determined that Saddam Hussein has been a prisoner of war since U.S. forces captured him on Dec. 13

GCC status update

GCC status update 12/28/2003 07:48 AM
After checking out the GCC-CVS code I had some unresolved questions. I was able to get in touch with Mark Mitchell, GCC's release manager, to learn some of the answers. A new C++ parser went into GCC a while ago and I had wanted to test whether there were noticable (or any) differences in speed. Mark reported he doesn't think it is notably slower than the previous implementation, but speed was not the initial implementation goal, correctness was. Some speed-up-related code has been committed and there is always more to be done in that department.

Status, CC: World

Status, CC: World 06/05/2005 11:32 PM

I post my status every Monday on our internal blog server and I'm going to start doing the same thing here. Except for the boring day-to-day operational stuff, most of my status is CC: World.

• Roller 1.1.2: I fixed serveral bugs in Roller's built-in (Lucene based) search engine last week. I got some tips from Matt Schmidt at Javalobby, who had done the same but in the Roller 1.0 branch. I hope to release 1.1.2 with those fixes this week; probably the last release from the 1.1 banch. David Lindsey helped with testing.
• Roller 1.2: since integrating Planet Roller and adding some UI unit-testing stuff, I've haven't been contributing much to 1.2, except for testing and deployment. Roller 1.2 is due out in mid-June, but it's already running a couple of sites (incuding this one).
• Roller 2.0: I've been trying to focus on work in the Roller 2.0 (the group blogging release), but daily fires and 1.X kept getting into the way of progress. Plus, I didn't want to create the 2.0 branch until I had UI unit testing stuff ready in CVS head. Last week, I started working on the database and persistent object changes.
• Roller@Apache: Apache has the Contributor License Agreements for all Roller commiters and the grant form, now we just need some karma. I hope we'll be moving into Subversion in the next week.
• RSS and Atom In Action: After completing all chapters, I went back and looked at Chapter 5 How to parse newsfeeds again. It was really bad and I ended up completely rewriting it over the Memorial Day weekend. Now I'm focused on implementing an Atom protocol client and server so I can wrap up Chapter 8.
• JavaOne 2005: I made travel arrangements for JavaOne. I'll be arriving Sunday before and leaving on Friday after. I'm also planning on being in Menlo Park for a Thursday afternoon blogs.sun.com users group meeting. My talk is at 12 noon, Thursday.

NetNewsWire 2.0 Status

NetNewsWire 2.0 Status 08/19/2004 08:47 PM
So—where’s NetNewsWire 2.0?

Well, we’re working quite hard on it—which is why I haven’t been doing much posting, and why if you’ve sent me email I may not have replied.

It’s not ready for a public beta yet. The main new features are all in place. What remains is fixing bugs, adding a couple small features, updating the Help, adding polish, basically just taking care of all the many little details.

In other words, we’re in the final sprint. The to-do list is down to 95 items.

(If you’d like to help test, and you have a NetNewsWire license, just send me email. Bravery is required, though, because it does still have bugs. Most of the 95 items on the to-do list are bugs to fix.)

What remains to do

Only a few of the remaining items are big things like updating the Help book. Most are small, it’s just that there are many of them. To give you a flavor...

- A smart list will cause a crash if you unsubscribe from a feed and the smart list includes headlines from that feed.

- The Atom feed parser doesn’t support base64 encoding.

- The order of columns in the headlines table is not remembered between runs.

- The 32K limit to the HTML differences feature should be removed.

- Etc.

Each of the above—and most of the rest of the list—are small, easy-to-fix items.

This, luckily for me, is my favorite part of software development. I enjoy fixing bugs much more than I enjoy adding big new features, probably because I can fix a bunch of bugs in a few hours. It’s like eating chocolates throughout the day instead of eating one big steak once a week.

That’s not to say that there aren’t lots of big new features in 2.0. There are. What we’re doing right now is making sure that it’s not just ambitious but good.

(A reminder, in case you missed it: NetNewsWire 2.0 will be a free upgrade for everyone who has bought or will buy NetNewsWire 1.x.)

Random discussion of one small part of one feature

Here’s what tabs ended up looking like.



How many different ways can tabs be done? You’d be surprised. We tried just about every configuration.

I really wanted the favicons because they perform a usability function: the icons make it easier to find the tab you’re looking for. It’s not just for looks. (We’re Mac users, right? We like icons.)

But the close button needs to be on the left since that’s where it is in Safari, and since close buttons appear in the upper left of Aqua windows. (When we tried putting them on the right, testers could just not get the hang of it.)

We could have put them together—close button, favicon, then title—but that looked very jumbled.

Another option, which had its supporters, was to combine them. The favicons would become close buttons on mouseover. Slick, yes, but at the cost of explicitness. If you didn’t mouseover, you didn’t know there were close buttons.

Another option was to do it like Firefox. In Firefox, tabs have favicons on the left, and there’s just one close button to the right of all the tabs. (But when we tried it, the feedback was almost completely negative, even though many NetNewsWire testers use Firefox. I personally liked this approach, but that’s just me.)

It’s funny, though, because the Firefox style had a unique selling point: it meant you could close an “overflow” tab by clicking a close button. Try it in Safari—open a bunch of tabs so that you get the little tabs menu widget on the right. Select one of the tabs from that menu. Is there something you can click to close that tab? No, you have to use the Close Tab command. With Firefox you can still click the close button.

In the end we went with the configuration pictured above, and we decided to make it possible to turn off the favicons, since it became one of those 50-50 things: some people really wanted them, but other people really preferred a cleaner look.

All of the above is just to say that software development is about trade-offs, and this is a textbook case because the trade-offs are obvious and there is no one best way to do it.



By the way, I’ll be doing a session called “Using WebKit: User Interface Challenges” at O’Reilly’s Mac OS X Conference this October. I probably won’t talk about the specifics of tabs design—it will be at a higher, more conceptual level.

HTTP Status

HTTP Status 12/12/2002 07:01 PM
PHP class for determining HTTP Status codes. This class is mainly based on Status.pm from the libwww-perl collection.

MOM FAQ: Current Status

MOM FAQ: Current Status 08/28/2004 04:34 PM

Genx Status

Genx Status 03/06/2004 02:06 AM
This is the permanent status page for Genx (tarball · docs). Latest news: Python Wrapper...
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Toggle DesktopCalendar's on top status via script

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