iPhone Applications

rometheus

There are many apps for reading Wikipedia. Prometheus is different. It's an editor for the Simple English Wikipedia

Simple English Wikipedia is like regular English Wikipedia, but it's written with simple words and grammar, so kids and non-native speakers can easily grasp it.

Shake to get a random page. Or search and browse with purpose. Editing is as simple as tapping the word you want to change.

Learn More   |   Download from the iTunes App Store

Requires an iPhone or iPod Touch

Mac OS X Applications

IMLocation homepage IMLocation

IMLocation does useful stuff for you, based on where your laptop physically is, and what you are doing with it.

It can mute your speakers in libraries. It can automatically put up the away message "Watching a DVD" when you are using the DVD Player. It can change your status messages to let your friends know where you are.

You can have IMLocation automatically run an Automator workflow, to do literally anything in response to where you are.

Learn More  |  Download

Requires a laptop with Mac OS X 10.5.

Information about Automator Automator Actions

These "micro programs" can be used with Automator to get the most out of your Mac. Learn more about Automator.

Otto, the Automator iChat Icon Set iChat Status

Set your status message, and availability in iChat; using the same familiar interface as iChat.

Set iChat Status Screenshot

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Requires Mac OS X 10.4 or later.

Otto, the Automator Screen Saver Icon Close Private Webpages in Safari

Automatically detect and close risque content, using the same technology that powers Mac OS X's Parental Controls. The sensitivity is adjustable, and behavior for hard to classify pages can be manually overridden.

Never leave confidential webpages, like a your bank account or email, open again. Don't let a link from a friend embarrass you.

Close Private Webpages in Safari Screenshot

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Requires Mac OS X 10.5 or later.

For best results, use IMLocation, which includes this action.

Otto, the Automator Screen Saver Icon Set Screensaver Security

Adjusts the time until the screen saver activates, and if a password is required to unlock it.

Set Screen Saver Security Screenshot

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Requires Mac OS X 10.4 or later.

For best results, use IMLocation, which includes this action.

Otto, the Automator Set Default Printer Icon Set Default Printer

Set Default Printer Screenshot

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Requires Mac OS X 10.4 or later.

Web and JavaScript

Twitterglyphs.com

An experiment that replaces whole words with unicode symbols, to squeeze every last character out of a tweet. So pirate becomes ☠, flag becomes ⚐, etc.

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