I want to thank James Duncan Davidson for posting a little snippet about Enkoder. This is a cool little tool that generates a JavaScript script to encode your e-mail address. I have put this on my site as well. This has several nice features:
- It completely hides your e-mail unless someone is using JavaScript, and if they look at the code all they will see is very unreadable arrays
- You can regenerate your link and it will look completely different from the first time you did it (using a genetic algorithm)
- You can use the Web or native OS X version (I prefer the native of course
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Next up is a nice little tool called TigerLaunch from Ranchero, makers of NetNewsWire (an RSS/RDF news aggregator, gotta love it). TigerLaunch allows you to have a Toolbar item for quickly launching your apps. When you first run it it will go through and find all of your apps, then you can configure it to drop the apps that you don’t use that often. A nice little bonus is that if you have a projects folder in your home directory (/Users/me/projects or Projects), it will add that right next to the tiger icon.
Now, this is OpenSource so anyone can download the code and play with it (I plan to in the near future), but here are some features that I would love to see:
- Ability to move items up or down in my drop-down list (I thought this worked, but then couldn’t get it to happen after the first time)
- Ability to create a sub-folder for groupings (like graphics, Java programming, OS X programming, PHP programming, HTML programming, Fun, etc.)
- I don’t know if this is possible, but it would be nice to be able to tell it where in the toolbar I want it (right now it appears to the left, so Eclipse will force it off because of it’s many menus)
I will be playing around with other tools as time permits and will pass any cool ones your way
