Miscellaneous Hacks

In addition to our main software development foci of Drupal, TWiki, and Quartz Composer, we also wander wherever the winds of creativity and necessity blow us. Linux and Mac OSX tweaks and fun little PHP widgets occupy our spare moments, as well as full OSX Cocoa applications and complex custom plugins for Apple software.

ParticleMetrix

Project timespan: September 2008 to April 2009

particleMetrix package

ParticleMetrix is a bundle of visual effects developed by Kosada for Noise Industries for use with Apple's video editing software such as Final Cut Pro and others. From the ParticleMetrix official website:Read more

Apple Mail "Move To Folder" Plugin

Project timespan: April 2008

Steve wrote a hack which adds a menu item, complete with keyboard shortcut, allowing the user to easily and quickly file one or more messages away in the “Sent” folder. [image after the fold]Read more

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iPhoto-Thunderbird Bridge

Project timespan: August 2007

iPhoto users have been stuck using only applescript aware e-mail clients because, after all, iPhoto uses applescript to interface with them. One of the more notable omissions is Thunderbird.

Finally, this void has also been filled, via the iPhoto Thunderbird Bridge. All the basics are there for iPhoto-Thunderbird integration.

If you’re an iPhoto/Thunderbird user, give it a whirl.

Software Development

Argyle Generator

Project timespan: June 2007

This little app uses a JavaScript widget to allow the user to choose colors, opacity, line weight, and output format. The form is then passed to a PHP script that uses ImageMagick to draw the lines and output the image to the screen.

This pointless but cute program can be found and tried out on Beth's personal website.Read more

Software Development