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First off - the WTYM site’s been updated, so check it out!

I’ve updated the Features page with more screenshots and descriptions, as well as a potential roadmap for the project. I’ve also added a poll to the front page, so give me your feedback! There’s a million directions this project could go, and I want to make sure I’m adding the features you’ll actually use, so let me know what you want  

As for v0.2.2, I’ve added two new applications: Spotlight and Running Applications. The Spotlight app lets you search your entire computer straight from your iPhone. The Applications app lets you navigate and control the menubar of all running applications, as well as launch new applications on your Mac.

I’ve also made lots of smaller updates: better icons and thumbnails for picture files, better meta data support for media files, album and cover art for music and movies.

Check out the full changelist on the Downloads page, or just download v0.2.2 now!

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I had the joy this week of my 1TB network storage dying on me. It now sits on my desk making horrible clicking sounds at me hours on end… Luckily, my irreplaceable music + photos are safe, but I’d literally spent days meticulously ripping, encoding, tagging, and importing my DVDs into iTunes, and I’m not remotely excited about doing all that work again… not excited at all…

However, it did give me a great excuse to go buy two 1Tb My Books from the Apple store today - so that almost made up for it.  And after a bit of rsync research, I wrote up a nice shell script to keep the two disks mirrored.

My next instinct was to set up a cron job to daily-sync everything at some ungodly hour in the morning, but to my surprise OS X 10.5 does not support croncron is deprecated in OS X! I’ve tried setting up launchd plists to get it syncing, but am having exactly zero luck. I even abandoned the command line for a launchd GUI app and still couldn’t get it working…

Is anyone else doing this? How do you daily-run tasks in OS X?

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This has been an extremely relaxing vacation weekend. I took a few days off at the end of last week till today to have an early Thanksgiving dinner with the fam. Really good times - and best of all - I had time to kick around some new code for WelcomeToYourMac!

I just released version 0.2.1, which is already leaps and bounds better than the previous version (though still not close to a 1.0 ).

Features include:

1. Control your Mac’s screen from your iPhone / any browser
2. Control iTunes, Front Row, SlingPlayer, DVD Player, and more with the Universal Remote application
3. Peek through your Mac’s iSight webcam
4. Lots and lots of code cleanup, faster icon generation (so faster file browsing!)

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