Nate True's Weblog http://cre.ations.net/$base_path Thoughts and musings from Nate True, casual inventor."; en-us Sun, 21 Mar 2010 05:51:26 -0500 Sun, 21 Mar 2010 05:51:26 -0500 custom http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss <![CDATA[SMSNotify - keeps your iPhone vibrating when there's an unread SMS]]> I hate it when someone SMSes me, and I miss the vibration, and I go for hours without checking my phone. Thus I created SMSNotify, a script that vibrates your iPhone every 15 seconds when you have an unread SMS.

The script is quite simple - it just queries the SMS database for unread SMSes, and if there are any, it calls the 'vibrator' utility that vibrates the phone for a short time.

It's written in shell script so if you want it to do other things it's easy to modify.

Now it's not perfect - when your phone is asleep it won't be every 15 seconds but will wait until the phone silently wakes up (to check your e-mail generally) before it can vibrate again. I'm working on that.

Download it at http://devices.natetrue.com/iphone/smsnotify.zip or just wait for it to appear in Installer.app - my good friend Shaun Erickson is packaging it up. ...

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]]> I hate it when someone SMSes me, and I miss the vibration, and I go for hours without checking my phone. Thus I created SMSNotify, a script that vibrates your iPhone every 15 seconds when you have an unread SMS.

The script is quite simple - it just queries the SMS database for unread SMSes, and if there are any, it calls the 'vibrator' utility that vibrates the phone for a short time.

It's written in shell script so if you want it to do other things it's easy to modify.

Now it's not perfect - when your phone is asleep it won't be every 15 seconds but will wait until the phone silently wakes up (to check your e-mail generally) before it can vibrate again. I'm working on that.

Download it at http://devices.natetrue.com/iphone/smsnotify.zip or just wait for it to appear in Installer.app - my good friend Shaun Erickson is packaging it up. ...

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]]> http://cre.ations.net/blog/post/smsnotify---keeps-your-iphone-vibrating-when-theres-an-unread-sm http://cre.ations.net/blog/post/smsnotify---keeps-your-iphone-vibrating-when-theres-an-unread-sm iphone, sms, smsnotify, script, installer, omgadog Wed, 02 Jan 2008 14:07:08 -0600 <![CDATA[The DHTML thumbnail zooming script: How it works]]> I've gotten more than a few responses to the cre.ations.net photo zooming feature. I really like how trivial it is to click on a photo to see the larger version without having to navigate between pages at all (this is also why no creation on here is paginated). Many have asked how it works, and here is your answer!

From a high-level perspective, here's how it goes down:
  • The user clicks on an image.

  • A script function is run which hides the original image and replaces it with an absolutely positioned image. This allows the image to 'leave' the normal document flow.

  • A timer function moves the image stepwise to its final location, in the center of the document as it is currently scrolled.

  • Focus is transferred to a link hidden off of the top-left corner of the document. This link will de-zoom the photo when it loses focus.

  • The user...

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    ]]> I've gotten more than a few responses to the cre.ations.net photo zooming feature. I really like how trivial it is to click on a photo to see the larger version without having to navigate between pages at all (this is also why no creation on here is paginated). Many have asked how it works, and here is your answer!

    From a high-level perspective, here's how it goes down:
  • The user clicks on an image.

  • A script function is run which hides the original image and replaces it with an absolutely positioned image. This allows the image to 'leave' the normal document flow.

  • A timer function moves the image stepwise to its final location, in the center of the document as it is currently scrolled.

  • Focus is transferred to a link hidden off of the top-left corner of the document. This link will de-zoom the photo when it loses focus.

  • The user...

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    ]]> http://cre.ations.net/blog/post/the-dhtml-thumbnail-zooming-script http://cre.ations.net/blog/post/the-dhtml-thumbnail-zooming-script image, zoom, script, javascript, dhtml, thumbnail Fri, 09 Mar 2007 09:08:29 -0600