Because the bundle somehow didn’t work for snow leopard, now it does, and you can get it here. of course 
. So basically, your mac adressbook is now able to get the gravatars again.. hrhr-
It’s that simple. just download the bundle, drop it to Library/Address Book Plug-Ins/ and restart Address Book. Once you click on an E-Mail address of one of your contacts, it will update the image using gravatar.com .
Have fun.
Update
There is a version available for Snow Leopard now, just check out the new post.
So this is great news on a monday morning. Just before I started to work my MacBook died. There was nothing I could do for it. The CPU-Fan stopped rotating at about 9:50am. May it rest in peace.
A short note on a previous post where I talked about my project of a simple File-Sharing applications that basically works using drag’n'drop and some zeroconf to find other peers. I wasn’t exactly surprised to find something that matches that description pretty well, but here it is, it’s called giver and should run on any platform that has support for some kind of .net/mono framework. I haven’t tried it yet, but I’ll sure give it a shot and tell you about it.
I’m already thinking about dropping the Java-project and instead do a client for the giver-protocol in Cocoa. I would be excited to have someone reporting about the actual use of giver! Moritz.
I guess you’ve already witnessed Microsoft dropping it’s zero-drug policy, and the first obvious result. The Microsoft Songsmith Spot was certainly created by some kind of PR-genius. They are using a MacBook Pro to actually demo the software in the clip, a good choice, but don’t you think that it’s a bit too obvious how they’re making fun of themselves? “Microsoft, so it’s pretty easy to use, hu?” should be enough. But it’s about your opinion, so just watch and learn.
I’ve been writing about the server side implementation aspects of Bonjour for Java a while ago, and I promised to explain the client side, which is a bit more tricky. The reasons therefore is that it makes heavy use of asynchronous callbacks, leaving you no other choice but to implement some interfaces and understand the way things work behind the curtain. Continue reading
So it is. I have a MacBook, the beautiful ( at least it used to be ) white, 13″ screen, first model. But as with any living being, death is certain and signs for its arrival are mostly undeniable. Would my MacBook be a human patient, he would be approaching multi-organ failure. But let’s step over to the comprehensive list of failures.
Bluetooth seems to work only when Moon and some other planets are in a constellation allowing certain, yet to be discovered, microwaves to be sent to the outer world, thus enabling bluetooth. I can assure you that this planetary constellation is indeed very, very rare and so is my bluetooth.
I wouldn’t bother just because of a broken bluetooth device, but fun is that one of the two USB-Ports seems to have been infected by the same disease little Bluetooth already has. Random failures. Just random.
There are days when I just don’t care about these little details. Its the days when the display starts to flicker. I’m not the only one ( the above reported issues are also well-known ), as you can see here. I’m glad to have a external display allowing me to take back control – and actually see it!
That’s it? Nope. Battery life is over, okay, no comment here, just normal. But case life too? Actually its broken in two places, and it appears to me to be just lousy. really. I’m quite confident though that it won’t happen with a new Alu MacBook, which I’m going to buy as soon as I find out about my fathers credit card number. Any hints welcome.
Good night.
Update: After I posted this here, my ComboDrive began making strange noises. And hasn’t stopped doing that since. Hmlz.