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April 17, 2005
Improved P.O.V. Bike
I have spent a couple hours today working on improving my persistence of vision bike hack. The previous version was fairly flimsy, and it was hard to press the buttons since they were not well supported. This time, I used a plastic backing and attached the components to it with screws and a whole lot of tape. The buttons are much more stable, since I cut holes in a plastic card to secure them. I haven't taken the new version out for a test ride yet, but I am confident everything will go as well, and most likely better, than before.
Posted by Alan Joyce at 06:29 PM | Comments (2) | TrackBack
iTunes Sleep Timer
Here is a simple sleep timer app I made for iTunes. Basically, it asks you for an amount of time (in minutes), and whether or not you want the computer to sleep as well. It will then wait the amount of time you requested, and then pause iTunes and put your computer to sleep if you chose that option.
DOWNLOAD: iTunes Sleep Timer | iTunes Sleep Timer Source
--iTunes Sleep Timer 1.0
--April 17, 2005
--Created by Alan Joyce
--http://everythingdigital.org
repeat
copy text returned of (display dialog "In how many minutes would you like iTunes to stop playing? Please enter a numerical value." default answer "30") to minNum
if minNum is less than 0 then
display dialog "Please enter a number greater than zero."
else if minNum is "0" then
display dialog "Please enter a number greater than zero."
else
exit repeat
end if
end repeat
copy button returned of (display dialog "Would you like your computer to go to sleep after iTunes stops playing?" buttons {"No", "Yes"} default button "Yes") to doSleep
set secNum to 60
copy secNum * minNum to delayTime
delay delayTime
tell application "iTunes"
pause
end tell
if doSleep is "Yes" then
tell application "System Events"
sleep
end tell
end if
Posted by Alan Joyce at 02:33 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Catching Up
I am really behind on my podcast listening, so today I plan to put the nine podcasts that have been building up in iTunes onto my iPod and listen nonstop until I get through them all. According to iTunes, it should keep me busy for about 5.3 hours.
Posted by Alan Joyce at 10:11 AM | Comments (0) | TrackBack