February 2012
1 post
Nimble (Cocoa Project)
This project is an application switcher in a similar vein to cmd+tab. I may write a more detailed post later on.
Demo video (youtube): http://youtu.be/VHy3NXrRiLk
Following from in-game item/weapon/power-up switchers I decided to give this a shot, and I’m fairly happy with the result. There are a lot of bits and pieces where, if I had the time, I would be swift to remove; for example the...
July 2011
1 post
Spotify and Applescript
Spotify blog post
Stumbling on a geektool script a while ago encouraged me to tinker with Spotify’s applescript interface - where I thought I might find some options that would have been useful to push Spotify Menubar further (for times when I might want to change it). Here is what Spotify’s applescript suite offers:
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sound...
June 2011
1 post
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Xbox Live Friends
(Revised)
Unfortunately I couldn’t find the time to fix Xbox Live Friends (XLF) for the latest website changes. Given time this is the direction I imaged it going:
Split the core into a front- and back-end.
Touch up the GUI to take advantage of Lion.
The front-end would handle the delivery of all the content. While the back-end would handle the communication with the Xbox Live website...
May 2011
4 posts
3 tags
Spotify Menubar Commit
This post covers the final commit (or final planned commit) to Spotify Menubar.
Final Commit
SIMBL Plugin
Added
Play/Pause and skip buttons embedded in the menubar.
SIMBL plugin for seamless global shortcuts.
Removed
Opening Spotify on launch.
Opening Spotify on keybind trigger.
Opening Spotify Menubar at login.
Updating
Changed
Preferences are now inline with the rest of the apps out...
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Spotify Menubar Discussion
Tools used:
SIMBL
Xcode
class-dump
Spotify Menubar Source
spotAPI (SIMBL plugin for global shortcuts)
JRSwizzle
Remoteless
Despotify (not used, but good to read)
Intro
This covers a large amount of what I was thinking when playing about with Spotify Menubar (SM).
I always wondered whether I should try to market SM, on the app store that is. A few friends suggested throwing it up there...
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Spotify Menubar
I decided to stop working on Spotify Menubar (SM). For a few reasons: I bought a keyboard that has the built in play/pause and skip buttons, which is why I made Spotify Menubar in the first place, and I have stopped using Spotify to listen to music and gone back to iTunes to built up a music collection again. Between this and not really having the time to seriously update it, I feel I should...
Life Up North changes
I have been looking to move to a blog based site for a while now-it seems much easier in terms of content management/tinkering. I also don’t want to spend a lot of time in the HTML/CSS side of things. ;)
This is also part of me wanting to change the way I see Life Up North. I would like to bring it more in line with portfolio-style website and I think the tumblr backend will help make it...
March 2011
2 posts
3 tags
Setting up an OpenCV environment on Mac OS X.
This post covers installing OpenCV for use with Xcode, and installing OpenCV for python. I make the assumption that Xcode is already installed and will be using macports for the python install.
There are a couple of choices when it comes to using OpenCV and Xcode together:
OpenCV as a standard install
OpenCV as a private framework
Regardless of the method of use, both are fairly...
Blog
I’m not sure what I really want this blog to be, or what it will be. All I know is it’ll be by me. :)
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Ruaridh