Sunday, February 10, 2002

Web Entourage released Blog App 1.0 for OS X today. Very cool. I downloaded it and had it configured and running within a minute or so. The trick is to use a username of 'default' and an URL of 'http://localhost:5335/RPC2/'. The only problem is that it has no awareness of Radio's categories. Not that it should-- categories are not a part of the Blogger API. It appears that you can simply 'post' from Blog App, then go into your local Radio desktop and categorize the post prior to publishing there. Of course, there is the chance that the rather proactive Radio should-I-upstream-right-now test will upstream prior to your categorization... 10:20:13 PM

Kay Narumi asked if there was some way that Bad Clock Detector could automatically fix the date in some fashion. Without a network connection, there isn't as AppleScript does not directly provide a means of setting the date and any indirect means is going to end up with the user in the System's date and time panel anyway to perform final adjustments (My best guess is that I could remember the last date/time the script was run, set the clock to that and at least get the user to within a few days/weeks of the correct time). However, if there is a network connection, there is no reason why the clock can't be set from network time. This version offers that functionality. In particular if the script detects that the system clock's year is preposterous (prior to 2002), it asks the user to reset the clock either manually or via the network. If the user answers 'via the network', then the script executes 'ntpdate' against Apple's time servers. This requires administrator privileges and, as such, the script will ask for the user's password (all source is provided if anyone wants to do a security audit). Of course, the user can cancel entirely. An RTF document describing installation and implementation in detail. 11:35:26 AM