Saturday, December 29, 2007
FlickrFan? PhotoFan? 
Dave's got a new tool so of course I have to have a look.
I saw the announcement and waited and waited for a link to appear in my RSS feed. Nothing. Then he was talking about the launch the day before. Wha? So I visited the site and scrolled through the comments and there was the link. OK.
Went to the site, downloaded the image. Wait, I'm already running OPML. What to do? A day or so later I started digging around again and via Google found a link to the photoFan.root. Either the downloads page was updated in the interim or I just missed it the first time.
Downloaded the root file. Dropped it in the Tools folder. Booted OPML.
Nadda.
Looked in the Tools menu and found PhotoFan -> Hello World. I thought ti was FlickrFan.
Started traipsing through the "discussion" area t codecasting and stumbled on a lnk to a preference page. That got me oriented.
I haven't set any prefs yet. Not sure I'll make sue of this app. I don't have a TV, let alone a high def one. My G4 laptop is not the fastest and it almost never gets to sleep. So what would I do with this thing? Not sure yet.
I also notice that OPML has been using 85-95% of my CPU since I installed the FlickrFan tool. Not a good sign.
Oh, I'm getting and error message in the top banner.
| [Macro error: Can¹t call the script because the name ³lastfield² hasn¹t been defined] |
Thursday, July 19, 2007
AFP Connection Status
Suddenly, each time I start up OPML Editor a dialogue pops up witht the title
| AFP Connection Status |
and with the text
| Looking up "xx" |
Where xx is the name of a machine I sometimes connect to. In fact I may have connected to it to run a script from OPML recently.
Question is, how do I turn this thing off? I've tried searching all the .root files which are open to find thread "xx" but to no avail.
Tuesday, June 12, 2007
Safari 3
Not only on Mac OS X you say?
Downloading now. Good grief. Requires a restart?! (I'm downloading the Mac version). How Windows-like.
Say, I wonder if this will run on the windoze laptop sitting to my left. Let's see.
Intersting.
| The Windows version did not require a restart. The Mac version did. |
| The Windows version opened in a flash. The Mac version took quite a few seconds (first launch). |
When you install the Windows version you have the option (on by default) to install Bonjour as well.
The Windows version has the OS X-look scroll bars and other UI.
All of this looks like a clever way of getting more users familiar with the Mac view of the world. Of course iTunes has been the most successful at that.
Sweet! Check out the search function. Command-F on Mac, Control-F on Windows.
It does feel faster. Pop-up windows and scrolling text fields have a new look.
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