→ Aurora 3.3.3 (3.8 MB, Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard only)

The regular Aurora 3.3.3 probably won’t work for anyone using Leopard, so I prepared this Leopard build just a few minutes ago. One thing that probably won’t work is switching to Front Row’s “Now Playing” (it’s disabled for that reason) but everything else seems to be working. I say seems because I did like 10 minutes of testing right at the WWDC buffet here – let me know if it works for you or if it doesn’t. This build uses GC and won’t run on Tiger.

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→ Home Zone beta 9 (Mac OS X 10.4 only)

I’ll call it the Birthday Release, since today is my birthday. What’s new:

• Added Network IP/Host trigger
• Added Airport enable/disable actions
• Added iChat/Adium status action
• Added intelligent trigger evaluation; zone availabily test will check easiest triggers first and skip unneccessary checks of harder triggers. Order is Network, Airport, Bluetooth. This way, you can save bluetooth power by also defining a network/airport trigger in a zone where “any” trigger is sufficient to determine availability. You can also cut airport scan load by defining a network IP trigger with your router’s IP address instead.
• Made actions rearrangable, defining execution order (drag to rearrange)
• Improved responsiveness
• Copy any custom actions to ~/Library/Application Support/Home Zone/Actions/ as Home Zone updates will override your actions otherwise

As always, please feel free to comment on problems, suggestions or things that just work.

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As I reported here earlier, Apple has been so generous as to offer me a student scholarship for their most outstanding developers conference next week. It’s my first WWDC, so I’m pretty excited and I can’t wait to arrive in San Francisco on saturday evening. For sunday I planned to attend WWDC student sunday, but since this has been moved to monday this year, I’ll try to get a good look at the largest gorilla crowd I’ve ever witnessed at the Great Gorilla Run and you’ll find me at sfMacIndie later that day.

Not only is this my first WWDC, though, it’s also the first time at all I’m in the US, so I’ll happily take advice on which of their beers are safe for a german to drink in exchange for one of said beers. If you’d like to talk to me without drinking beer, that would also be more or less fine, just let me know. My favorite topics include application updates, bluetooth proximity detection, dropping out of college and becoming a pirate, iTunes alarms, the lack of autobahn speed limits and lots more.

PS: Why only why did Apple need to release MBPs so close to WWDC that my placed-at-lightspeed order by far won’t make it to my doorstep before I leave for WWDC? That’s mean!

PPS: You should definitely check out this widget, though. Just so you know how late your order will be.

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