What's new?

2006-11-06

At last! A new version of Mailbox Alert!

See the Changelog for more information. Or, if you're in a hurry, you can download it directly.

The new version will be uploaded to http://addons.mozilla.org shortly, but confirmation usually takes a few weeks. If you want it now, download it from my site.

2006-08-24

I have had reports that Mailbox Alert's 'show a message' option produces an error when using it on mac OSX. Apparently this part of the Thunderbird/XPCOM library is disabled for OSX at the moment. Users are adviced to use Growl for showing alerts.

2006-08-16

Got something like munin or mrtg, with regularly updated graphs on a webpage somewhere?

Want them in your gnome background, while working nicely with nautilus icons, and still visible through your transparent terminals?

Get gwallscript!

2006-08-06

New version of Mailbox Alert!

There have been a lot of changes in the internals, it is queue-based now, you only get one alert when there are multiple new messages in a folder. You can also specify complete accounts, and some bugs have been fixed.

See the complete Changelog for more information. Or, if you're in a hurry, you can download it directly.

Since Mailbox Alert is on addons.mozilla.org, the automatic update will from now on check there, and not my site. Of course, new versions will always show up here first, so if you want to stay ahead, check my site regularly, or join the Mailinglist , where i will post announcements of new versions. If you just like Mailbox , Alert, or you have something to say about it, you are welcome there too :)

2006-07-30

I've set up some mailing lists for two of my projects, you can find them at http://jelte.nlnetlabs.nl/mailman/listinfo.

2006-07-29

My ipod broke down yesterday, so i'm forced to use my old 256 mb mp3 player, and i did not want to spend any time compiling a music collection for such a small device, so i threw together a small perl script that randomly chooses up to X megabytes of mp3 from a directory tree containing mp3 files. You can get it from my Small Stuff page.

2006-06-08

I got into the Mozilla extensions list :) See?. This will probably mean that i'll stop providing an update feed from here, but i'm not sure about that yet. If so, i'll make one in-between version to point to theirs.

2006-05-19

I have now got enough points to be a CAcert assurer. So if you meet me ask about it. If it is not at a conference, be sure to bring a form or tell me to :)

2006-05-14

Big additions to Mailbox Alert!

I've added an option to use the internal alert service from mozilla, which shows an alert suited to your system, with the icon you select. You can also specify a sound to be played now. Of course, calling an external tool is still possible.

It should also be a lot more user-friendly now, with browse buttons etc.

I think this is the last major feature addition before 1.0, so any ideas you might have must be really good to get into that ;) I will of course fix any bugs that are left, and have a few things that i will add or try to add in 0.9, the most important ones of those are:

• Internationalization support Replace the built-in english texts with language keys, so other languages can (eventually) be supported.
• Junk mail At the moment, you also get alerts when junk mail arrives, because Thunderbird puts it in the folder before removing it again. I don't know if this can be recognized but it would be nice if this is possible.
• Support for Virtual Folders

2006-05-05

There's a second version of the windows Popup tool out, and i've built some better error messages for Mailbox Alert. check it out.

2006-05-02

A friend of mine, who wishes to remain anonymous, whipped up some c++ code to show a popup from the system tray, so you can have nice messages in Windows

You can download the source and binary at the bottom of the Mailbox alert page.

2006-05-02

If anyone knows of a command-line tool to show notification messages in Windows (2k, XP) or if anyone has built something like that (i guess with the Shell_NotifyIcon() call or something), please let me know, so i can refer to it from my Mailbox Alert page as an alternative to libnotify/kdialog/gmessage etc.

2006-04-19

Got a bug submission for mailbox alert: mailbox alert < 0.4 puts a space before every argument of the specified command. Of course this breaks commands that include options, since the first character is no longer a '-'. Version 0.5 fixes this. Project page.

2006-04-19

And right after the bugfix release, i got some feature requests. So here's version 0.6 :)

Gogogogo

2006-03-20

And yet another clcms release. Please see the changelog on the project page for additions. Most important ones are that page.meta files are now called page.attr files, and file name options have been moved to attr: lines in the .page files themselves.

This means that it is not backwards compatible with 0.5 sites if they use page.meta files or filename extension options. For the latter case there is a script (convert_extension_options.py) but please back up your data first, it is not very well tested.

Go get it!

2006-03-10

The 0.5 version of clcms does not produce strict html (there are some badly placed p's near headers and lists). It has been fixed in trunk, expect a minor update soon.

2006-03-10

I have had some requests to change the wiki syntax to that of Wikipedia, so here's a start.

New version of clcms! The only real change is the aforementioned wiki syntax change, but it is already more advanced and flexible than the initial one.

There's an update script to translate your pages, so please don't be mad about the broken backwards compatibility :)

Project page (direct download Changelog)

2006-02-16

New version of clcms! I've rebuilt about the complete page-generation algorithm. One regression is that if you change a macro or .inc file, the pages it is used in are not regenerated unless you specify -f.

I've also changed the documentation layout, it's based on this one for now :)

Maybe next time i'll get around to dropping a 'real' documentation layout in it.

Project page (clcms 0.4, changelog)

2006-02-10

Trying out yet another layout, partly to show one new feature of the upcoming version of clcms, the _selected_ menu macro. This makes the tab style menu possible.

I have rewritten just about the complete page creation code, data based this time, it should be as good as backwards compatible, only the interface to the macro changed (it will not get a bunch of separate variables to use, but only the page the menu is for, and from that every data that is needed should be reachable).

I'll need to clean it up some more, and rewrite the documentation, but expect a 0.4 release soon.

I'm also thinking of providing some form of id to pages and items, so they can be more easily linked in-site. But i'm not sure if that will be finished for the next release.

2006-01-29

New version of Linktag (0.9, Changelog)

Now performs link tag toggling on all tabs in the active window.

2006-01-22

Fixed some bugs in Mailbox alert. Go get it.

2006-01-17

I've released a new version of clcms (0.3, Changelog)

This new site layout is rendered with it. Oh i know it looks bad in IE, get a standards-compliant browser. I'll probably change it soon anyway (mostly to try out the capabilities of clcms)