http://yellowmonkey.mintdesigns.co.uk . . . jaundiced primate . . . Thu, 16 Jul 2009 08:18:06 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Weewar is a fantastic waste of time - but not too much time that you don't get any work done when you inevitably become addicted. Its a turn based strategy game, so games can go on for weeks but you can spend five minutes making your moves and then get back ... http://yellowmonkey.mintdesigns.co.uk/2007/09/17/weewar/ 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 ... http://yellowmonkey.mintdesigns.co.uk/2007/06/05/check-uk-national-lottery-script/ 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 ... http://yellowmonkey.mintdesigns.co.uk/2007/06/03/igroupchat/ 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 . ... http://yellowmonkey.mintdesigns.co.uk/2007/06/01/local-network-texas-holdem-poker-with-folders-and-applescripts/ 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 ... http://yellowmonkey.mintdesigns.co.uk/2007/06/01/source-code-and-sht/ **********Start moan********* Does anyone have a list of spam keywords I can add to the Wordpress blacklist of words it will not allow in posts? This is getting ridiculous. The more I add to the blacklist, the more seem to get through. **********Moan over********** http://yellowmonkey.mintdesigns.co.uk/2006/05/03/spam-on/ 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 ... http://yellowmonkey.mintdesigns.co.uk/2006/04/10/a-car-alarm-for-your-ibook/ While checking out my site stats to see how many people have visited, downloaded iQuotes, and how many people have accessed the RSS feed of quotes, I noticed that I had over 20,000 hits from one IP address. The next highest number of hits for one IP address is only ... http://yellowmonkey.mintdesigns.co.uk/2005/11/11/ip-address-confusion/ While researching Quartz Composer I came across very cool application called Quartz Desktop. It enables you to play Quartz Compositions, such as iQuotes and Apple's RSS screensaver. Steve http://yellowmonkey.mintdesigns.co.uk/2005/11/10/quartz-on-your-desktop/ Collated together in a stylish, Apple-esque screen saver - the best quotes from Apple CEO, Steve Jobs. Mac OS X 10.4 Only. Sorry. And an internet connection is needed. Download (.zip) Alternative Download (.sit) or download the quartz composer file that needs to be dropped into your Library/Screen Savers folder. Then you can go ... http://yellowmonkey.mintdesigns.co.uk/2005/11/08/iquotes-steve-jobs-quote-screensaver/