Published on
May 10, 2005 in
Apple.
I came across a neat piece of software called Delimport (thanks to Timo from this post on Russell Beattie's blog), which allows you to search your del.icio.us bookmarks using Spotlight:
It does this (I think) by downloading all of your bookmarks and storing them in one of the cache folders in your home directory. Spotlight then comes along and indexes the files for you. I guess this is one of the limitations of Spotlight, in that it will only index the attributes of individual files (as opposed to one big file containing a lot of separate entities – e.g. bookmarks).
It'd be nice to see something like this integrated in Quicksilver or LaunchBar (Quicksilver may have it already, I don't know). I currently have a search template in Launchbar to search del.icio.us, but to have the results show up in LaunchBar itself would be awesome. 
One gripe I have with Delimport is that it requires you to install the Spotlight plugin and two frameworks. I understand that it's beta software, but I don't see any reason for them to be located outside of the application bundle. As far as I know, a Spotlight metadata importer and frameworks will happily exist inside the application bundle (and that is how it currently works in Connoisseur).
Published on
May 5, 2005 in
Apple.
I came across an Automator action that some nifty person created tonight, while reading Russell Beattie's post on Spotlight and tagging. The action is called Spotlight Tagger.
Basically, it works around a limitation of the Finder where if you want to add "Spotlight comments" to multiple files, it will open multiple "Get Info" windows. With this Automator action, you can simply select the files, right-click and scroll down to "Automator" and select the "Spotlight Tagger" menu item, as shown below:
In order to install the Automator action (which you can download from the above link), you need to open the "Spotlight Tagger.workflow" file, and then go to File -> Save as Plug-in. From there, you can name it (I called it "Spotlight Tagger") and save it as a Finder plugin. You should then be able to select multiple files and set their Spotlight comments!
Published on
May 3, 2005 in
Apple.
I came across a cool Dashboard widget today, called Flidget, which allows you to easily upload images to your Flickr account! Nifty.
Firstly, to have to setup your account details (accessible by clicking on the "i" in the lower-left of the widget). To use it, all you do is take your screenshot, hit F12 and drag the image into the frame of the widget (where a "+" sign will appear. Type in a tag or two, and hit "Upload"! Easy…
It seems to have a problem with recognising when the upload has finished (the widget still says "Uploading…", a long time after the photo appeared on Flickr), but hopefully that'll be fixed soon.
