http://homepage.mac.com/ckupec/iblog Default Dot Mac Weblog All rights reserved. Fri, 26 Dec 2008 16:46:52 -0500 Fri, 26 Dec 2008 16:47:28 US/Eastern iBlog 1.3.1 I downloaded Overdrive's new console for mac. ]]> Fri, 26 Dec 2008 16:46:40 -0500 I've been getting a lot of hits from folks looking for the English translation of Os Mutantes' "Minha Menina", so here's my take on it. "Smelling happiness" sounds odd, but that's basically what "cheirando a alegria" means. ]]> Wed, 12 Nov 2008 09:07:16 -0500 Oh, man, I love this song. I think Boing Boing had linked to it a little while back. ]]> Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:15:04 -0400 This AppleScript GetCallList.applescript lives on our MacMini running PhoneHerald which calls our patrons about their holds. It merges the separate calling lists generated by the horizon receipt printer programs running on each circ station, weeds the duplicate patron barcodes, then it GUI scripts PhoneHerald to import the text file as a new group, and starts a new calling run with that list. I have a separate script for our branch library, which uses a different calling template, but this example should give you the gist of how it works. ]]> Wed, 29 Oct 2008 15:48:30 -0400 This is the code for the new version of the receipt printer application horizon_receipt_printer.py .
If you've ever written code in both Visual Basic and Python, you'll know why I wrote it in Python. ;-) ]]> Wed, 29 Oct 2008 13:51:29 -0400 Who's the adman who first came up with this double-barreled shotgun technique for TV advertising? ]]> Wed, 22 Oct 2008 14:12:54 -0400 After going crazy trying to find out where Apple hid the preference checkbox to turn off the arrows that link to the iTunes Store, I read that they removed the GUI method. Luckily, the Terminal method still holds. ]]> Wed, 01 Oct 2008 10:18:17 -0400 I've been using Pandora on my iPhone more and more. My favorite stations lately: Luna Radio and Flaming Lips Radio. ]]> Fri, 26 Sep 2008 10:22:14 -0400 I wish Overdrive would get a move on and release the Mac-compatible version of their Console application. ]]> Fri, 26 Sep 2008 09:50:06 -0400 I'm a little late to the party. I read that this ad first played during the NBA finals, but still, I was surprised to see and hear it. The setting is a kids soccer game, with the losing team getting McDonalds, and the winners envying them. Strange. Great song, though. I saw it while either watching the Daily Show or Colbert. ]]> Sat, 06 Sep 2008 11:24:19 -0400 I don't know how all the corporate world/exchange server stuff is doing on the iPhone, but for music and gaming, the update's pretty cool. If you're purchasing music for your library especially, you gotta get an iPhone. ]]> Wed, 16 Jul 2008 12:52:11 -0400 I've been teaching myself Ruby and Python, and a little Lua, mostly for fun, then I've been trying to apply it to what we do at the library. ]]> Mon, 07 Jul 2008 16:59:10 -0400 I've had a commented-out sub-routine in my library's receipt printer code that can email the receipt rather than print it for some time now. It required me to use Horizon's table editor to modify our receipt slip to include the patron email address. But now, with our push to go green and cut costs, I've done further testing on it, and it looks good to go. ]]> Wed, 19 Mar 2008 09:27:26 -0400 Overdrive sent out a PLA preview to its customers that says they will soon begin offering MP3 downloads as well as their usual DRM WMA fare. Also that they are going to provide a Mac version of their Console application to download those MP3s. The downside is that their titles from Random House will continue to be WMA, PC only, no-iPod garbage, which isn't their fault, but Random House's. ]]> Wed, 19 Mar 2008 08:29:44 -0400 Apple released their developer kit for iPhone yesterday. I watched the presentation off their website this morning. Yowza. That whole market is just gonna explode. I will be very surprised if Apple's iPhone doesn't end up dominating mobile. Even now, they're impressive. ]]> Fri, 07 Mar 2008 13:14:32 -0500