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appswitch 1.0 released, with new features including the ability to quit an application normally, kill an application 'hard' (send a SIGKILL), and various tweaks to the ps-like application list.

7:16 PM | Radio
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The hiptop SDK is coming, the hiptop SDK is coming. Can't wait to port Pester!

6:35 PM | Radio
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Joe Zobkiw has another book coming out, this one on OS X plugins: services, status items, color pickers, screen savers and more. If it's anwhere near as good as his previous book, it will be one to buy.

I had a productive weekend: made more progress on a proposal for combining the last two stages of my thesis work, spent some time working on adapting Omni's OACalendarView for Pester 1.1, and went to a party last night. This morning I woke up feeling terrible, disoriented and feverish. I've spent most of the day lying in bed shivering, trying to read papers since my mind wasn't good for much else, and unfortunately missed a special meeting with my advisor. Just got dragged out to dinner, and I'm feeling a bit better now, hopefully well enough to go to Kuk Sool tonight.

6:33 PM | Radio
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appswitch 1.0b2 has a few minor fixes and revised man page; don't bother downloading it unless you had a problem with 1.0b1. As there doesn't seem to be an easy fix to the -F option problem (CPS calls are asynchronous), I've implemented a delay workaround which should work most of the time. If not, just replace appswitch -SF with appswitch -S; sleep 2; appswitch -F, replacing 2 with a larger number if needed—however long it takes for the applications to be shown. I guess I could poll CPSGetHiddenProcessCount until it decrements (show one), reaches 0 or stops changing (show all), but it's really a hack, and I'm not sure if there's any external interest in appswitch anyway.

12:01 AM | Radio
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appswitch 1.0b1 released, with new features including “hide others”, “show all”, application kill, and a ps-like application list which should look familiar to MacsBug users:

% appswitch -l
       PSN   PID TYPE CREA NAME                 PATH
  131073.0   359 APPL lgnw loginwindow          /System/Library/CoreSe
  393217.0   404 APPL T$2c Timbuktu Extension   /Users/nicholas/Applic
  524289.0   408 APPL dock Dock                 /System/Library/CoreSe
  655361.0   409 APPL syui SystemUIServer       /System/Library/CoreSe

Also included are a man page (my first; a launch man page will be forthcoming), readme, and of course the source code.

1:30 PM | Radio
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