Review: SCOTTEVEST Ultimate Hoodie Microfleece

Summer weather in New England is never predictable, so whenever I go out to photograph wildlife or soccer games I travel with a raincoat, sweatshirt, and a change of shoes. Most sweatshirts have two pockets, which means if I want to use my iPod I have to strap it on my belt or arm, or pocket it. It is not easy juggling a water bottle, iPod, camera,...

published on Thursday, the 28. June 2007, macintosh-news-network

Pageflakes "Blizzard" getting Safari support

The next major revision of Pageflakes -- a site that allows users to customize their home pages with select news, weather, sports, entertainment, photos, videos, music, email and more -- will come with support for Safari. "Blizzard" is the name of a new upgrade that will allow users to customize each of their Pageflakes pages with unique themes. Us...

published on Friday, the 8. June 2007, macintosh-news-network

Rob's sick...

I posted three hints on Rob's behalf today; he came down with some sort of fast-moving bug last night and is under the weather today. Things should be back to normal on Monday.Sorry I didn't have time to try out some of the more elaborate hints that are in the queue; and I hope none of the ones I posted are dupes. Kirk

published on Friday, the 27. April 2007, macosxhints

Apps: WeatherPop; PresentYourApps

WeatherPop Advance 2.6.1 ($8) is an alternative to the Tiger weather widget, displaying information such as temperature and general conditions in the menu bar. More advanced data such as wind, humidity and forecasts can be seen by using the drop-down window. New to v2.6.1 is a real-time Doppler radar view, available for any city in the United Sta...

published on Thursday, the 29. March 2007, macintosh-news-network

Irrigation Script for Indigo 1.1

This script will schedule watering based on: 1) The number of days the user specifies. (future versions will calculate this automatically) 2) Will auto calculate watering times based on ave temps for last number of days. 3) Will run in either a 'new grass' mode or a 'established' mode. 4) Supports watering for drip and spray irrigation and grass and vegetables. 5) Adjusts watering based on weather data. You need to use my WeathermanX script for weather information. Since I cannot get rain fall data the script only guesses. As future versions of Weatherman add this feature I will update this script. This script has some basic support to determine what the forecast for precipitation is and will make adjustments based (still needs some work, haven't had any rain here in over a month so hard for me to test). 6) Since you likely only want to run 1 zone at a time it will check for scheduled triggers and adjust the time date of the watering time so there are no conflicts. Set up your devices My devices are set up like this: Name: Irrigation Zone 1 Disc: Rain8 grass sprinkler irrigation Name: Irrigation Zone 2 Disc: Rain8 grass sprinkler irrigation Name: Irrigation Zone 3 Disc: Rain8 vegetable drip irrigation Name: Irrigation Zone 4 Disc: Rain8 tree drip irrigation Name: Irrigation Zone 5 Disc: Rain8 shrub drip irrigation You can call the name of the zones whatever you want. In the description you need to say what your watering (grass, vegetable, etc) and watering means (sprinkler, drip, etc). irrigation(DaysBetweenWatering​, zonekind, WateringMode) DaysBetweenWatering: User set days between watering. I use 3 days in New Mexico, depending on where you live you can adjust this. I found I had to ramp up to 3 days when I first started my watering. zonekind: You use your descriptions here. My zonekinds are 'grass sprinkler irrigation', 'vegetable drip irrigation'. Right now this script only supports specialized watering modes for vegetables and grass and sprinkler and drip irrigation methods. If you want another type added let me know, I'm still researching watering methods for other types of plants. WateringMode: Specify 'new' or something else. 'new' is intended for new laws and will water the grass every day for X minutes 3 times a day. You still need to specify the number of days in the 'new' mode for weather related calculations. The script is set to run grass starting at sundown. That works fine in New Mexico where it's pretty dry but in wetter parts of the world nighttime watering can lead to disease. Future versions will look at min temps and adjust the watering time. In the meantime you may need to make changes to the script.

published on Thursday, the 2. November 2006, scriptbuilders

Weather Underground PWS to Indigo 1.2

Note as of 10/2006 this script was not working properly and needs to tweaks to adjust for changes in the format of the data in the PWS. V1.2 11/28/2004 Made various changes to it here and there to make it more reliable. There's an issue with the WU data not being complete and it will cause the script to fail. Need to fix it so it can fail gracefully and try again in 15 minutes or so. You will need to check on it from time to time to make sure it's still scheduled. V 1.1 8/30/2004 I found that the script would occasionally error trying to get data from Weather Underground (not sure why yet) and would not adjust the time/date for the next update. I've fixed that so it will try again in 15 minutes. V 1.0 8/12/2004 Gregory J. Smith This script will pull data from the personal weather station data provided from Weather underground. You will need to configure the list of weatherstations that you want to pull from and put them in the WeatherStations list in the order of priority.

published on Thursday, the 2. November 2006, scriptbuilders

NOAA Weather Script 1.1

'NOAA Weather Script' for Indigo written by Karl Smith (http://www.perceptiveautomatio... t=1074) threadhead@gmail.com Description: NOAA Weather Script will poll the NOAA web site and retreive the latest weather information for the specified station code whenever the script is run. The wather information will be saved into Indigo Variables that you can use as desired. You will need to create an Indigo Time/Date action that executes this script every 60 minutes.

published on Wednesday, the 1. November 2006, scriptbuilders

An Apple-Google Merger, Intel's Desktop Vision, Buying Guide III

Summer is the time to relax, take in the weather and drink a Mint Julep ... right? Someone should tattoo this information on the heads of a number of executives I know because this summer has been anything but relaxing and I still haven't even seen a Mint Julep.

published on Monday, the 4. September 2006, macnewsworld

One way to stop a system Shut Down action

Here's something I found is quite useful. If you tell your computer to shut down, and then remember you forgot to do something (send an email, or check weather, or what have you), wouldn't it be nice if you could stop that shut down process, so that you could then handle your forgotten task without having to go through the full power-up process?One good way to stop the computer from quitting all applications and proceeding to shut down is to click on any non-running application in the Dock (preferably one that will take more than one bounce to open), and that process will then cancel the shutdown routine. Hope this helps some folk out there.

published on Wednesday, the 9. August 2006, macosxhints

Give me the weather forecast 1.1.1

Replies with the latest weather forecast for any city or town in Australia, using reliable information from the Australian Bureau of Meteorology. On Mac OS X, it can even cope with having to use a web proxy with authentication (by using curl instead of URL Access Scripting). Best used as a Speakable Item, just say 'Give me the weather forecast' and hear the reply

published on Wednesday, the 12. July 2006, scriptbuilders