Plugins

Four entries were added to the Hawk Wings Plugin and Addon List this week.

ZooDo (mouse-less iCal To Do creation) and iCalScripts (AppleScripts to create iCal To Dos and Events) were added to the iCal section.

GmailStatus (smarter-than-average Gmail notifier) and iNotify.saver (screensaver polls for new Mail.app messages) were added to the list of Notification utilities and apps.

I resisted the urge to put Yojimbo in the helpful apps section.

Backend

I’m an inveterate fiddler. I can’t help it. This week I installed the new version of bstats, called bsuite . It handles related posts and tags in a different way, so the posts look a little different as well. There some oddities in the automatic tag parsing too.

I’m not the Michaelangelo of web design, so I welcome feedback, advice and opinions. Perhaps it’s better. Perhaps it’s worse. Perhaps it doesn’t make any difference. I’m hard to offend.

I also added a begging bowl and placed the site under a Creative Commons License .plugin, addon, Mail.app, Apple Mail, AppleScript, notification, iCal, bsuite, Creative Commons, screensaver

iNotify.saver is either quite clever or a gimmick, depending on your point of view.

It is a third-party screensaver that polls your Mail.app accounts (.Mac, POP and IMAP all supported) for unread messages and keeps track of the number of your iChat buddies who are online.

After installation, you configure it through the Screensaver Pane of System Preferences:

You can specify which of your accounts it should poll, and how often (every 30 seconds, 1, 2, 5 or minutes).

When you unlock an account, iNotify.saver accesses your username and password directly from the keychain, so no tedious retyping is required to make use of its notifications.

You can run it over a “basic black” background or over one of the preset Mac OS X screensavers. It does look nice. The Mail and iChat graphics circle the screen and twist about :

A new version was released today that fixes a number of problems.

It no longer miscounts emails when more than one POP account is active. It now counts other server-side IMAP folders as well as the inbox (“special folders”—Sent, Junk, Trash and Drafts— are not counted).

iNotify.saver is freeware, although the developer warns that it may cost you karma if you use it a lot without donating.

You can get it from the developer’s web site .screensaver, ichat, mail.app, apple mail, notification, freeware, karma