Archive for the 'Software' Category

Check UK National Lottery script

Tuesday, June 5th, 2007

This script checks a feed of the UK National Lottery results and checks it against your numbers. It then saves a text file informing you how many numbers you have matched and I use GeekTool to display that information on my desktop.
I also use a program called Cronnix to run this script at various intervals [...]

iGroupChat

Sunday, June 3rd, 2007

This little app that I wrote might prove handy to someone – especially those who are trying out Friday’s Poker post.
iGroupChat
You may know that when using iChat over the local network with Bonjour there is no facility for a group chat so I wrote iGroupChat. You type the message and then hit return and the [...]

Local Network Texas Hold’em Poker with folders and applescripts

Friday, June 1st, 2007

I set this up because I was becoming increasingly mythed about the lack of small and simple network games that can be played in an office environment without the risk of being sacked.
The idea is quite simple, though I will probably complicate things more than necessary, but here goes . . .
The idea is that [...]

Source Code and Sh*t

Friday, June 1st, 2007

This is going to brief as its my second attempt to write this post – the first was interrupted by a system wide crash. (Mac’s don’t crash my arse!)
I’ve been trying to learn cocoa and have found developers blogs and especially their sample code to be very helpful, so I’ve decided to post my collection [...]

A Car Alarm for your iBook

Monday, April 10th, 2006

There has been alot of interest lately in an app called iAlertU, an alarm for your MacBook Pro, and a video showing it in action.
I had been working on a similar project for fun and for my own use, however, iAlertU doesn’t currently work with iBooks or PowerBooks, so I thought people might be interested [...]

iQuotes – Steve Jobs Quote Screensaver

Tuesday, November 8th, 2005

Collated together in a stylish, Apple-esque screen saver – the best quotes from Apple CEO, Steve Jobs.

PodTunesColor

Tuesday, September 27th, 2005

As promised here is the new release of PodTunes – PodTunesColor.
It has been given a major overhaul and now features a color screen that displays the album art of the currently playing song – just like a real iPod. As before it also displays the name and artist of the current song but now also [...]

Coming Soon!

Friday, September 23rd, 2005

Look out for a new version of PodTunes coming soon!
New features include:-
A colour screen
Album artwork on the screen,
Switch shuffle on and off directly from PodTunes,
and more!
Look out for it here or on VersionTracker.

PodTunes v0.1

Wednesday, September 21st, 2005

A Simple iTunes controller that looks like a little iPod on your desktop.
Click play/pause, previous, next – just like you would on your real iPod. The name of the currently playing track, album and artist also appears in the iPod’s display.
There are plenty or widgets that do this, and probably one or two [...]