During the vacation this summer, I began working on creating an app that would help me respond to calls of attention when my auditory sensory capabilities were compromised courtesy the noise cancellation capabilities of my Bose headsets. Well, I managed to make a few mods to that script, used a touch of applescript (thank god OS X apps are scriptable) and introduced a bunch of new behaviors:
-> When a Skype call is in progress, the app stops listening.
Ok, not a bunch, just one. Also, this is not exactly an app you should be using since it relies too much on quirks in my own computing environment. Anyway, for more details you can head over to http://shriphani.com/Shriphani_Website/Listener.html.
So, a few screenshots:
Apart from that, I also wrote a protein function matching script as part of my research this semester. I will be putting it up soon. Wow, I have been more productive in these three weeks than all of last year.
ever heard of Growl
http://growl.info/
nm, guess i should have read the site…
Haha, wow, that’s an amazing idea — having the microphone of the computer listen to surrounding noise while using headphones to visually reciprocate audible calls of attention.
A better way to display it could be recoloring some part of OS X, like the menubar or something. Tint it red, I don’t know.
Chris,
I know of Growl and it actually is the way to go with this script. But I have had a lot of problems trying to compile Growl on this machine and geektool is the only way right now to get this to work.
LE,
Thanks for the kind words. The menubar sounds like a cool idea. I am OS X n00b and I need to learn a bit more to be able to do that. Thanks for the input though :)