You should be able to string together more than two words into a contraction.
Example: "they will not" = "they'lln't"
Think of the possibilities.
October 2003 Archives
Features and bugfixes:
-Source project now uses Xcode
-Fullscreen viewing has been rewritten to be volume control/brightness control/exposé friendly.
-Flashing when returning from fullscreen has been reduced.
-Weird issue with nonfunctional arrow keys seems to be resolved
-Menu option to disable automatic resizing (from Eli Cash).
-Escape now exits from fullscreen mode.
Download:
Binary: MagicLantern-1.0.1.zip
Source: MagicLantern-1.0.1_source.zip
The source is now available via anonymous CVS from:
strangecargo.org:/var/lib/cvs
The CVS project is called "MagicLantern".
I seem to have hit a musical homerun this weekend:
Belle & Sebastian - Dear Catastrophe Waitress
Portishead - Roseland NYC Live
The Breeders - Pod
The New Pornographers - Mass Romantic (Remaster/Reissue on Matador)
It's all good. I was a little skeptical about the remaster/reissue of Mass Romantic, but in most places, it does sound a *lot* better than the original issue on Blue Curtain. The new Belle & Sebastian is great!
In additional news, I think I've fixed the issue that some people have been having with non-functional arrow keys in Magic Lantern. I'll probably make another release by the end of the weekend. We'll see.
Michael's adding blog entries for the last 6 years!
<limefest> i hate samba
<allan> the developers of samba hate it too
<limefest> i need it though
<allan> I remember reading an article where they were like "we only write it because it's horrible. we wish it would go away."
<jon> i met a samba developer on a plane once
<allan> ha
<allan> sounds like material for a nerdy coming of age novel
<allan> did he change your life, jon?
<jon> hmm
<jon> i would have to say no
<jon> he changed part of my life
<jon> the part when i was on the plane but before i fell asleep
The daily exploits of Jon Baudanza are available here.
Magic Lantern is an image viewer I wrote because I was just a little frustrated with the available image viewing programs for OS X. All the ones I could find were (pick and choose here) horribly out of date, slow, and/or commercial/shareware. It's very simple; all I wanted was a quickish program that lets you browse through directories.
I had originally intended to make Magic Lantern available via strangecargo, but I haven't put together a web page for it yet, and all attempts at convincing Larry to do it have failed. For now, I'm posting it here so I can start to get feedback and bug reports/feature requests. Magic Lantern is distributed under the terms of the GPL.
Executable: MagicLantern-1.0.dmg
Source Code: MagicLantern-1.0_source.dmg
The controls are as follows:
down arrow/right arrow: next image in directory
up arrow/left arrow: previous image in directory
page down: skip forward 5 images
page up: skip back 5 images
home: go to first image in directory
end: go to last image in directory
command-F: toggles in and out of full-screen mode
I and command I: toggles filename display in full-screen mode
I'm currently working on more customizable preferences and some bugs, but it's usable/stable enough that I use it as my default program for opening jpg/png/gif/etc files. Features in the pipeline include: resize behaviour preferences, a more appropriate icon, and perhaps XML-RPC integration with a web-based image management library that I'm working on (hopefully, more on that later).
If you're wondering, the name is derived from the name of a device not unlike a slide projector from the early days of photography.
The Magic Lantern icon, "100,000 Fireflies," is distributed with the gracious permission of Matthew Bice of IheartNY.com.
Please ask for features and bugfixes in the comments.
Send patches to me at <allan at counterpop dot net>
