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This might come out as old news for some.. But what I wished exists!
The Dvorak Keyboard Layout is available for the iPhone.

These two blog entries have enlightened me… Muahaha… Probably the first thing I’ll do to my iPhone 3G. (if I ever get one..)

Hmm.. While blogging my previous entry… I noticed that ScribeFire doesn’t handle multi-line preformatted text properly for some reason. I wonder what’s behind that. Forget that. Might’ve been some fluke. Weird.

Also, the Add a Link keyboard shortcut doesn’t work properly. The Ctrl M doesn’t do anything at all and Cmd M just minimizes the window (I’m on a Mac and it’s supposed to do that). If ScribeFire is opened in a window of it’s own, then Cmd M works. (but in a way, that breaks the window minimizing shortcut)

I also don’t like the fact that you can’t change the default font of the text you blog in.

I just wrote an AppleScript for setting the status on Adium using Quicksilver. It’s dedicated to usage with FriendFeed, which I recently registered at. It’s not something new (read below) but at least this works.

Here goes:

using terms from application "Quicksilver"
  on process text ThisClipping
    tell application "Adium"
      if (ThisClipping is not "" and ¬
        (first character of ThisClipping is "/")) then
        set theCommand to first word of ThisClipping as text

        if (theCommand is "o" or ¬
          theCommand is "off" or ¬
          theCommand is "offline") then
          go offline
        else if (theCommand is "i" or ¬
          theCommand is "invis" or ¬
          theCommand is "invisible") then
          go invisible
        else if (theCommand is "a" or ¬
          theCommand is "away") then
          if ((count words of ThisClipping) is 1) then
            go away
          else
            go away with message ¬
              (texts (offset of (word 2 of ThisClipping) in ThisClipping) ¬
                thru -1 of ThisClipping)
          end if
        end if
      else
        go available with message ThisClipping
      end if
    end tell
  end process text
end using terms from

This was written after referring to these two blog entries. (I didn’t even bother changing the ThisClipping variable name, as you can see.)
Paste the code into Script Editor. As written in the first blog entry I’ve mentioned, you can save this in “~/Library/Application Support/Quicksilver/Actions“. If the directory doesn’t exist, just create it. And restart QuickSilver after that.

I named my script “Adium Status.scpt”, so I could use it after typing “A” and “S”. (of course, I could also type “status”, or whatever.)

Features:

• “/a”, “/away” changes your status to Away
• “/i”, “/invis”, “/invisible” changes your status to Invisible
• “/o”, “/off”, “/offline” tells Adium to go Offline

You could type “/a Something” and your status will be set to Away with a custom status message of “Something”.
Your custom status message is set leaving your Status as Available on default.
The custom status message only works with the Away command because you can’t have status messages while you’re Invisible or Offline. (duh)
This is tested with the latest 1.3b5 beta of Adium and latest build of Quicksilver.

This is what I did on Friday. Wanted to blog it but I didn’t have the chance until now.

Kate Spade’s website’s store locator is pretty misleading. I think the only stores you can’t trust to be existing are the ones in the stores list. Those found by the store locator may not really exist. Anyways, the White Paper Fax store turned out to be a Gracie’s Market.

Anyways, it pretty much felt like travelling alone for the first time for me. It was just really lonely. There was this sense of a rush of freedom. That’s only because I’ve been tied up by my sister-in-law/brother’s family lifestyle. It pretty much like NS over here. Nothing close to a great holiday. It’s US. I’m staying at home pretty much everyday. If I leave, it’s to somewhere nearby to play pool alone. Yea. Fun huh?

I went to Pasadena to shop around on Colorado Boulevard. I had Japanese Udon + Shrimp Tempura + Mushroom and a tobiko for lunch. It cost me 12.35 inclusive of tipping. Not too bad. The udon wasn’t very smooth and the soup didn’t have any seaweed. But still, atmosphere and service was good.

Went to Kate Spade after that to look around and look for something for my friend. Couldn’t find it anyway.

Spent more than an hour half at Armani Exchange after that. Bought two plain coloured plos with AX embroidery designs, a long sleeve and a t-shirt. USD137, including tax.

Went to play pool at Jake’s Billiards since it was 5.30pm already. Not too bad. People there looked rather intimidating even though it was so early in the evening and it had just opened at 5pm.

Went back after that. Good day. Productive. Finally.

Gotta go sleep now.