Watcher 1.1 is now available from its home page. New in 1.1: Changed the default feed URL to everyone’s public photos tagged with flowers on flickr Created an icon Some window layout tweaks Removed extra embedded installer for exe file; app is now installed from the output of py2exe. Changed default photo slide time from [...]
Lots of trying to find a good way to make an icon (including: exporting from Photoshop using a file export filter that knew how to write .ico, writing script to convert .gif to .ico, and browsing free icon sites for something I liked). Finally settled on using LiquidIcon, a freeware icon editor to hand-roll a [...]
I forced myself to make a release of Watcher last night. I feared if I didn’t release it then it might languish on my disk like all of my other little gadgets. Forcing myself to release it meant I had to finish it at least enough to not be entirely embarrassed by it. Tonight, I [...]
Last night at around 1:00 a.m., A friend and I were discussing an application that watched a Flickr RSS feed and popped-up IM-alert style notifications when new photos were posted. Over the course of the next 8 hours or so, Watcher was born. It’s my first released application written in wxPython. It’s crude and the [...]