Posted in Technicalon Sep 1, 2009
While still in college, I wrote my first Mac OS X program to upload documents to Google Docs. The program is called GDocsUploader, and it supports drag-and-drop uploading of documents, spreadsheets, presentations, photos, and PDF files.
Today, almost 9 months since my last release, I am happy to release an updated version of the program. The new updated version will allow users to upload PDF documents, a very much requested feature.
You can download the new version from the Google Code project site.
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Posted in Technicalon May 6, 2008
I released version 1.2 (download) of my little GDocsUploader program. After being published on a few websites and having over 4000 downloads, I thought it might be nice to update the app a little.
There are bug fixes, better error dialogs, a new icon (used under a creative commons license) and uploading of photos into Picasa Web Albums. A bulleted list of changes is published in the project wiki.
GDocsUploader is a small Mac OS X program that I wrote to quickly upload documents to Google Docs, simply by dragging and dropping a document icon onto the uploader icon.
Posted in Technicalon Apr 22, 2008
A while ago, I found myself needing to upload many document files into Google Docs. I saw that Google had a new API for doing such, so I decided to write a quick little app for the Mac to do just that. Just drag and drop documents onto the icon, and away their uploaded.
I had never written any sort of real Mac application, so I just kind of glued something together out of Python, applescript, and a couple of helper apps. I threw the source up at Google Project Hosting, which has been good, because otherwise I would have been supporting the thousands of downloads.
Recently, my little droplet app became more famous. It was featured on lifehacker.com as a featured Mac Download. My favorite line from their post was, “Gdocsuploader is still new and a bit unpolished.” I think it should be considered more than just a bit unpolished. They should have said, “this thing might work, and is about as unpolished as lava rock.”
There have been a multitude of other posts about my little project:
Thanks to everyone who wrote something nice about it.
Posted in Technicalon Oct 16, 2007
With the latest release of OS X Leapord being released soon, I thought I would take another look at some of the features of Leapord server. One of the things I’ve been anticipating is the new calendaring server. Apple says that the new server “works well with others,” but maybe not as well as they were first saying. It seems that Apple who was once touting Microsoft Outlook compatibility is now being quite hush about it. Consider this sentence from their old iCal Server features page:
iCal Server uses open calendaring protocols for intergrating with leading calendar programs, including iCal 3 in Leopard, Mozilla’s Sunbird, OSAF’s Chandler, and Microsoft Outook.
The same sentence recently changed to omit any reference to outlook:
iCal Server uses open calendaring protocols for intergrating with leading calendar programs, including iCal 3 in Leopard, and popular CalDAV clients from Mozilla, Open Source Application Foundation and others.
Despite having a pretty cool name, Cyberduck is a pretty cool program. It is an FTP/SFTP program for Mac OS X. I like using it to upload files to my webserver using SFTP. It integrates in with my Mac operating system pretty well, and best of all, it is open source. Being open source means that I’ll never be charged for it, and I can copy and redistribute it as much as I want. I can even change part of the program if I want. Anyway, I just wanted to give a shout out and applaud those who have worked on Cyberduck and say, thanks.
Posted in Technicalon Apr 4, 2007
I’ve been using OpenOffice.org on macs long before I even owned a mac. OpenOffice.org was just barely turning 1.1 back in those days, and installing it on a mac required learning how to install and get running X11.
NeoOffice is a version of OpenOffice.org rebuilt entirely for the mac. I’ve been using versions of NeoOffice for some time, but it has finally hit a level of maturity that makes me feel more confortable about showing it off. The latest version, 2.1, is available for download and is based off of OpenOffice.org version 2.1.
This is the first version of NeoOffice that is completely convincing as a mac application. Read the rest of this entry »
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