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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!

I pushed out a new version of Reggy this morning.

Release Notes:

• added preference to apply sub-match/capture group coloring: each match or capture group gets a slightly different shade of color —- especially nice for nesting matches
• added preference to automatically use the clipboard contents on startup for the regular expression and/or the testing string
• added menu items to paste the clipboard directly into either the regular expression (Command Shift V) or the testing string (Command Option V)
• added a new and improved Reggy icon (Leopard Compatible/Resolution Independent)
• added help link for regular expression syntax preference (goes to wikipedia)
• updated regular expression engine
• simplified preferences window

Thanks should go to Steve Huff at the Harvard-MIT Data Center for requesting the startup clipboard preferences. It was a great idea that, along with the menu items to quickly paste into the fields, many people will be happy to see.

So anyways, Leopard’s icon size is big, and I mean big:

I had to redraw the icon this morning because the clipping icon I was using was swiped from Tiger. I figured it would probably be proper of me to not steal the clipping icon.

I am really excited to get onto developing a Leopard-only 2.0 version. I am starting to read through the new documentation now. Let me just say thank you to Apple for making developing stuff like Reggy fun and easy.

I just made a small upgrade on Reggy’s website for those of you who haven’t used Reggy.

Screenshots

Enjoy

Reggy has a new home… reggyapp.com

I needed a site to host some things on to do Sparkle integration, so I went ahead and purchased the domain name to host with.

At some point I hope to do a real website with feeds and such, but for now it gives some information and links to places where Reggy can be seen and/or downloaded.

One of the real benefits of having this site is that hopefully you will be able to check just one place for updates to Reggy in the future.

Thanks to a few noble users, Reggy’s Bug Tracker is getting use. Most of the issues are feature requests and I am slowly getting time to get to them.

I already have preferences going. Here are a few screenshots to give you an idea of where it’s going:

Hopefully that will help some people out.

I am not going to release 1.2 until I get Sparkle going for automatic application updates. It looks like that will happen hopefully within this week or next.