Catfood WebCamSaver added the following new locations today:
Bonners Ferry, Idaho, USA
Hachinohe, Aomori, Japan
If you use Catfood WebCamSaver these webcams will be added in your next automatic update. They'll also go into rotation in our Google and Vista webcam gadgets. Enjoy!
Most Catfood Software products are the result of an itch I couldn't find a way to scratch. Sometimes I write software just to learn something new. Often I do it because there is no other product that does exactly what I need, or it's going to be faster to write it than search for it.
Catfood FTP is the very first Catfood Software product - 1.00 was released in 1998. File Transfer Protocol is a standard for moving files between computers. It's commonly used for updating websites. Back in 1998 I was working on Catfood Magazine and needed to send changes to our host at Demon Internet. This was a slow dial-up connection to a UNIX host so as well as sending the files I also needed to chmod scripts so that they had permission to run.
I couldn't find any software that really made life easier, so Catfood FTP was born. I wrote it as a command line tool that simply uploaded an entire directory structure. To help with the slow dial-up connection I added an option to only send files that have the archive bit set - this is a flag that Windows sets whenever a file is changed. Catfood FTP clears it after upload, so after uploading a site you only need to send the files that have actually changed. I also added chmod support based on extension, so you could for instance automatically set the right permissions for Perl scripts.
Over the years Catfood FTP has added support for downloading files, scripting, excluding or included specific file types and more. From version 3.00 there's also a Wizard that makes it easy to run a quick transfer or to configure a script that can be automated in a scheduled task.
I use Catfood FTP daily. It's still my tool of choice for updating websites and I also use it for automatic daily backup of several databases from my web host. The command line version is free and included in the Catfood FTP Wizard download. The Wizard is a free trial (for twenty transfers) and if you find it useful you can buy a license at the Catfood Store.
Catfood WebCamSaver added the following new locations today:
Saco, Maine, USA
If you use Catfood WebCamSaver these webcams will be added in your next automatic update. They'll also go into rotation in our Google and Vista webcam gadgets. Enjoy!
This screensaver shows the twitter public timeline, posting a new tweet every three seconds. I wrote it while experimenting with the twitter API and I love watching the deluge of random thoughts.
Download CatfoodTwitterScreensaver.exe. Once downloaded right-click the file and choose Install (Now packaged in an installer so just run / double-click to install the screensaver).
The screensaver requires that .NET 2.0 is installed. You probably have this but it you see an error when you try to run the screensaver you might need to install it. (.NET now automatically installed if needed)
If you don't see any updates (just a blue screen) make sure that your firewall is configured to allow TwitterPublicTimeline.scr to access the Internet.
If you have any problems get in touch here. Please leave a comment on this post for any feature requests. Also, if you like the screensaver please follow @CatfoodSoftware.
(Updated 2009-02-25 to 1.00.0080: Improved tweet display and support systems with multiple monitors.)
(2009-04-22: Profile pictures aren't displaying correctly at the moment - you just get the default twitter image. This is a known issue with the Twitter API. As soon as the Twitter bug is fixed the screensaver should start displaying the right pictures again.)
(Updated 2009-05-08 to 1.10.0138: You can now add your own account (or accounts) to follow as well as the public timeline. Colors are also now configurable. I've added an installer so just download and run to get started.)
Catfood WebCamSaver added the following new locations today:
Magione, Umbria, Italy
If you use Catfood WebCamSaver these webcams will be added in your next automatic update. They'll also go into rotation in our Google and Vista webcam gadgets. Enjoy!