We have made this little app, well... its not really an app as much as a little script. What it does is give us a bit of information (nothing dangerous though, we are completely open about it!).
imakeprofile sends the name of the apps you have in your application folder to our server and present you with a nice interface that shows you the apps you use on iusethis. This makes it super-simple for you to add the apps you forgot to your iusethis profile, as well as discover what apps you forgot to reinstall since the last time you formatted your harddrive.
Find it here and try it out, maybe you even want to digg it, we really think it rocks!
dugg!
http://www.digg.com/apple/imakeprofilemakingiteasiertomanageyouriusethisapps
404: http://static.iusethis.com/imakeprofile.dmg
Blogged.
:: thinks ::
Do I want someone to have access to the names of the files I’ve written? And to know so much about me… The one’s I’ve written myself and run on my local machine?
and will my code somehow end up in the searchable google code-finder thingy?
It’s quitting for me when I try to start it. Is there a fix/update?
this app seems awesome, nbut it’s not working.
Nice! The applications does appear in my profile, but it doesn’t say “stop using”.. Meaning that I must cehck every application manually.
The app fails silently if there’s no /Users//Library/PreferencePanes directory…only found out the problem through the terminal
“Forgot” to reinstall? Maybe if You forgot about the app You’re better off without it ;)
works great, but doesn’t seem to look in ~/Appications and is thus missing most of my apps.
oops that should have read ~/Applications
I haven’t yet tried it, but one thing seems somewhat important to me: An interface. I’m all for perl scripts, but I like to know specifically what it’s collected, if only for my own use. Perhaps even a way to just dump it to the console for perusing.
I honestly don’t know how to program for OSX yet (just starting C in my classes), but I’d be more than willing to make a GUI for this if anyone else wants it.
Ah ha ha ha. Might as well not post that one. Nice app (I hadn’t run it previously).
Where can I find the tool?
I modified the script to search my ~/Applications directory (trivial), but I also had to update the invoke of curl for proxy access. I don’t know how to set up shell environment variables so they’re “seen” by .apps (if someone does know, I’d be much obliged), and curl (nor other such commands) does not pay attention to System Preferences. I’m not quite sure how you’d have to modify the script to support automatic configuration from the system preferences file, but I presume there is such a mechanism….