Why does GlimmerBlocker’s Sparkle-based updater have a fake Apple menu?

Today Ben asked me to help him get Bluetooth proximity detection scripts working for him so his MacBook would activate the Screen Saver (and require a password to get back in) when he left his desk and to deactivate the Screen Saver upon his return (without having to manually enter his password).

He found a nice blog entry describing how to get it set up, so I made up a git repository with the scripts and the needed C program to notify the loginwindow process that you changed a user preference for the Screen Saver.

So, how do you work this thing!?

You will need the Proximity application and to download the repo from github. Then just follow the README file and point Proximity to the scripts you downloaded.

Enjoy, thanks a lot to Jesse Hollington for figuring this stuff out!

So, things are staying busy as usual. The boys are doing well and getting big! Work has been a bit hectic as we were acquired by Barracuda Networks. It’s been exciting but fast. It is definitely good news for the customers as we will have more resources to both do fixes and push new features.

So we will see how things go and if they calm down soon :)