A brief apology… of sorts
I thought I needed to apologize to all my, umm faithful readers. (I’m not sure if I actually have any faithful readers, but regardless…) Anyway the apology is to tell you I’m sorry that I’m not funny. I concede my limitations: I’m just not funny on paper (or on the e-paper either. OUCH that was terrible!)
I mean, if I were funny, I might try to use this blog to make you laugh in any manner of ways. For example, I could try to write some kind of funny made-up story:
“This morning, I walked out my front door and on the fence in the courtyard sat a frog. He told me his name was Pete, and he asked me, ’What is your favorite song?’ I told him that I love music, but before I could tell him the name of my favorite song, he exploded. Some of the green goo got on my shirt. It was pretty nasty. That’s too bad. I might have been cool to have a strange talking frog living outside my house. Rest in Peace Pete.”
But I’m just not funny, so I won’t even try. You’ll just have to deal with my serious ramblings about personal and technical things, that you may or may not find mildly interesting. If you are looking for humor, keep looking because you probably won’t find any here, unless it’s accidental. (or maybe if I quote somebody else funny. So I’m not funny, but at least I’m good looking… so I got that going for me - which is nice. (Please don’t tell me if you think I’m not, that would most definitely be not funny, but chances are you aren’t reading my blog if you think that because why would you read the blog of the ugliest person in the world? Especially if he’s not even funny!?)
Well, I tried and tried to think of some sort of funny ending for this not-so-funny post on my not-so-funny blog, but I just couldn’t. My brain started hurting and I think my head was about to implode. Anyway, I got nothing. So, this is the end. Sorry.
I read a comment you left at command-tab, about using QS to control iTunes. How? I have QS and Growl installed but I’m also using another app to control iTunes. I’d love to drop the 3rd app if possible.
Comment by Geoff Taylor — July 26, 2005 @ 6:29 pm
Yeah sure… You simply need to download the QuickSilver iTunes plugin. The plugin already has a few built-in scripts like Next Song, Previous Song, Pause/Play. You’ll probably want to assign some triggers in QS to these various iTunes actions. If there are other things you want to be able to do, you can make your own Apple Scripts to control iTunes and give them triggers too. I have some Apple Scripts assigned to triggers for rating songs.I can send you the Apple Scripts if you want.
For notifications, you simply need to make sure that you have Growl set as the default notification system in QS’s “Notification Hub” in the preferences. Also, make sure you have QS turned on to show notifications within the Growl preference pane. I use the Music Video display style. The only problem with this setup for me is that the QS iTunes Plugin doesn’t currently display the rating in the notification it sends to Growl. I would like to see that implemented, but people have been saying that on the QS boards for months now.
Comment by Scotty P — July 26, 2005 @ 7:02 pm
Might I also add that if you want to see Notifications you should make sure that in QS preferences in the iTunes section (the iTunes plugin preferences) you have CHECKED “Monitor Recent Tracks” and “Display Track Notifications”
Comment by Scotty P — July 26, 2005 @ 7:07 pm