My little Flickr action for Automator is finally the action I hoped she would be:
That’s right, just pick a color - any color - and the action will download images that match that color as closely as possible. It’s certainly not a useful tool, but it sure is fun. And a great way to see [...]
Out of almost pure gadgetitis, I bought a Garmin Forerunner 205 this weekend. I am getting ready to do Wildflower in May, but I don’t think that justifies needing a GPS trainer. Still, what a cool little tool. Yesterday, I ran from my house in Noe Valley, out to Glen Park, through the Sunnyside, around [...]
If you’re a Mac developer and are interested in trying your skills in Coder Stadium, head over to Gus’s blog and sign up for the first Iron Coder contest. (Here are the rules)
Just a few new things:
Added a progress bar and status message to the action window. Now you’ll have some indication about how long until it finishes.
Fixed a bug with image resolution that would cause all higher-resolution images to download as very small images. (This is something I forget to do every time I’m using NSImage [...]
Jubaea chilensis Olmué
Originally uploaded by pápa peña.
Jubaea Chilensis - The Chilean Wine Palm - is a beautiful, very large, very slow growing palm. It’s original growing area is… wait for it… the mountains of Chile. It gets its name from it’s sweet sap, which can [...]
As soon as I posted the Search-As-You-Type code, I started thinking of ways to improve it - I know it’s not much use to anyone if it just lets you put strings in and find them later.
So I started writing down some thoughts for a more general implementation that lets you insert any kind of [...]
I had an interview last week and one of the early questions was about how to implement a search-as-you-type field. To be honest, I didn’t come up with the answer I should have - a tree where each character the user types represents the next node on the way toward the leaves.
I’ve been frustrated for [...]
Quick turnaround on this one since I think these are features that should have been there in the first place! I added a few new things to Download Color Field Images:
You can now specify how many images you would like to download. It will download as many as it finds, or the number you request, [...]
