mailboxalert 0.13.2

Ok I finally got around to trying out Mailbox Alert with Thunderbird 3. There were a few nasties hidden in the changed API’s, but I am quite certain I found most of them. FWIW, i’ve been running it for a day here and it all seems to work fine. Oh and the license is now officially BSD. Note that those are the only things I did in this version, there are no other changes.

tb3

I am very much aware of the release of Thunderbird 3.0, and Mailbox Alert will be updated as soon as i get to it. Unfortunately i have neither the time nor the access to a machine where tb3 actually seems to run for the next week or so, so it’ll have to wait for a bit.

play2

It’s here! It got in yesterday, making the total count 134 days. I see that by now the game has gotten cheaper, though the package was gracefully accompanied by no apologies at all. Thanks Play.

play

##Play.com: 3-5 days delivery. Unless it’s longer. A lot longer.## Being a pretty regular customer at play.com, with around 60 orders placed over the last couple of years, I never really had to deal with their customer support. Once, quite some time ago, I had an order that didn’t arrive. I sent them an e-mail, and they sent another copy. Very nice. So a while ago a friend and I decided it was time that we go and tackle Resident Evil 5 together.

mailboxalert 0.15 a

It’s been quite some time, and it will be quite a bit more, but I have restarted work on Mailbox Alert. I’m just about rewriting the whole thing to add a few much requested options. Don’t exactly know which will make it into the next release though, just hang in there ;) In the meantime, someone told me of another configurable notification tool, Notifu. Haven’t tried it myself, but it looks really nice.

Eee

So, I finally got my hands on an Eee. There’s only one store over here that sells the Linux version of the 901, which is the only model that has exactly everything I’d want from it. Here are my experiences with it so far. I’ve played with it for a couple of day now, and am very happy with it. It came with Asus’s own software based on Xandros, which was not really to my liking; the software I use most isn’t directly available, and the default interface could be a bit slicker.

PKCS11 library

Here’s another one from my software wish-list, a full implementation of PKCS#11 as a software library. Let’s do this as a little brainstorm, in the form of a small FAQ. A software implementation of an API that is designed for hardware interaction… For the love of crypto, why? Very good question! The reason I’d like to see a software implementation is simply because not everyone has cryptoki hardware available at all times, or maybe even not at all.

OpenID Library

So here’s one idea: An OpenID 2.0 Library, in C minor. There are already a lot of implementations of OpenID, but none of them are done in C. Now this might not be the first language that comes to mind when one thinks about it implementing it, especially since OpenID is (at the moment?) mainly targeted at blog-style web sites, which are often programmed in languages like Ruby, Python, or Java.

Wishes

Okay, one of these days I’m going to misuse this news page to put forth some wishes, or other things I would like to do or see done in the near future. I’ll keep the topics to possible software projects, not unattainable stuff like world peace, or finding true love. The idea is mostly to sort my head around various ideas I’ve got floating around in my mind for quite some time now, and maybe sorting them out and putting them down will get me far enough to actually start doing some of them.

More control over sounds in Windows

Scott Crevier has written a little tool to provide more control over what sounds are played in Windows when using Mailbox Alert. I haven’t tried it, or looked at it in depth, but you can find it here. Please let me know how it works for you.