On the heels of my previous app which used Apple's Spotlight searching capabilities to create your own personal search engine, I have written a new application to create your own web photo gallery from a Spotlight search.
Spotlight is one of the more interesting, and (for me), useful features of Apple's Mac OSX. While it's superb with locating documents, programs, and the like, it really shines when it comes to the number if built-in and freely available plugins for use.
So, basically, you have an inbuilt system on Mac OS X which will allow you to search text files, html files, images, Word documents, PDF's, the list goes on and on. The really interesting bit (to me, at least) is that there's nothing to configure or tweak. If you are running a Mac, then everything copied over to the file system is automatically indexed, and made quickly available for searching- even from a web browser.
Well, it looks like it's been a while since I updated the site with any new content. A lot of that has to do with work, and things on the weekends crowding all the wonderful time that I used to have dedicated to screwing around on the computer.
Nevertheless, here's a bit of an app that I managed to stop messing with and actually prep for release.
Late summer / early fall always gets me interested in the weather a lot more than other times of the year. I poke around at noaa.gov for weather reports, temperatures, humidity, and all that crap. This year I looked into just pulling the raw information down from noaa, parsing it how I like it, and then working on my local copy of the data.