Damn… It’s been a couple of days since I posted – so I thought I best get something in from the First Jelly at AR. It’s a “video” for the Computadors track Don’t Get it Remixed that I chucked together in Ableton Live – yes – Live! It has some incredibly rudimentary video editing functionality in it – but it does let you chop video to beats in your project: which is perdy cool. The “effects” all come out of Quartz Composer which I found on my mac. Big version below…

We’ve got some more Computerdors stuff comin’ soon too… don’t fret!

And for the employee, that flower takes the form of the Friday Afternoon Beer. The closest most of us will ever come to pure enlightenment.

So to ease the quotidian burdens that lay ahead, here’s a handy tool for tracking your time ’till enlightenment: Beer o’clock – The Firefox extension. A little app that sits patiently, alerting you periodically, reminding you of your purpose in life. Keeping you focused. A great productivity tool.

Here’s how it works – set your office beer oclock time and choose the frequency of notification – for example, every 2 hours. A small beer icon appears in the status bar of your browser. Every 2 hours a message is displayed next to the icon with the message “34 hours, 30 minutes ’till beer o’clock”. Splendid.

To spice it up a bit, the message is not just displayed in hours and minutes, but other time-frames that may be more relevant to you and your office fellows: “15 cups of coffee ’till beer o’clock”, “3500 lines of code ’till beer o’clock”, “10 ridiculous questions from clients till beer o’clock”. You can also add your own messages for non-stop beer/office fun.

So install the Beer oclock extension (Pre-FF2.0 version here…) now and watch those “Work-in-progress meetings” fly by.

Phew, just 1 more blog entry ’till beer o’clock…

Click on the first image and load it into a browser tab. Now start FileFisher from the tools menu. You will see the current URL in the top bar of FileFisher, and many wierd options below it… What we are going to do is swap the “sequence number” part of the URL for our token…. so if the URL in FileFisher is “http://www.allThesesImages.com/media/image01.jpg” manually change the “image01.jpg” to read “imageAA.jpg”.

Then set the numbers you want to try and grab… so, say you want to grab image1.jpg through to image99.jpg, put “1″ in the start field, and “99″ in the end field. Choose your download directory and “go fish”. The AA bit will be substituted with each number in turn, and the files downloaded.

It works with any file type – but for zip, wav and other filetypes that download rather than displaying in the browser, you’ll need to paste the URL directly into FileFisher. Filefisher has a couple of other tricks up it’s sleeve too, but you can read all about them in the Help.

Theres heaps planned for the next version, but I have a very short attention span and it’s amazing it got as polished as it is now. As it stands, the program is filled with bugs and strange behaviour so let me know what interesting and wonderful problems you find.

So get crackin’ and install FileFisher v0.4 (for Firefox 2.0.* and below)