iBose again

A shout out to Rob Griffiths over at Macworld's iPhone Central for closing my iPhone + Bose open loop and tuning up my productivity with a simple-yet-not-less-fabulous feat of headphone surgery.

Stikkit in your pocket

This is just too freakin' cool for words. You know those groovy fold-it-yourself PocketMod booklets?

Using our new Stikkit API, Aaron Straup Cope has stuffed his stikkits into his pockets to take with him when he's away from the keyboard.

Writes Aaron, "The possibilities are endless if by endless you mean four or five letter-sized sheets of paper . . ."

Wow!

Search Stikkit from your Mac

Our recently featured stikkiteer iNik has gone so far as to set up a page of his own for Stikkit tricks. His most recent: search Stikkit from your Mac by adding some simple one-liner magic to Firefox (this'll work for Windows users too), OmniWeb, LaunchBar, and Quicksilver. Nice.

iNik's AppleScript stikkiteering

The other morning during my normal morning routine I ran across a forum post in our "Widgets, Hacks, and more" forum by stikkiteer iNik that had me jumping up and down (literally).

iNik wrote a comprehensive AppleScript package (for Mac OS X) dubbed New Stikkit Package that you can run in various forms: as a stand-alone double-clickable AppleScript application, hook into Quicksilver or Launchbar, or use as a Mac OS X service from just about any other application. It'll even send notifications to Growl.

Seeing people like iNik write useful pieces of code that support an application I care about never gets old. When people ask me, "How's Stikkit going?" I never fail to tell them about people like iNik.

Check out his work, grab a copy and give it a spin, and be to let iNik know what you think.

Thanks, iNik!

Simple Stikkit tricks: Drag and drop an iCal event

On a whim the other night I decided to try dragging an iCal event from iCal to a new Stikkit window, and was delighted to see that it did pretty much exactly what I expected it to do: it pasted in a text version of the iCal event and, lo and behold, Stikkit noticed it too, scheduling without batting an eye.

Watch that event fly!

Stikkit on your desktop

We're always thinking about ways to keep Stikkit close at hand. Assuming you do too ;-), I thought I'd point to a couple of little apps we've come across to do just that.

Steven Frank's lovely little WebKit-based WebDesktop for Mac OS X overlays Stikkit (or any other site for that matter) on your desktop, leaving it dimmed until you start interacting with it. An auto-refresh setting means fresh content shows up without need of a manual reload.

And Stikkiteer bmassey finds Bubbles, a system-tray enhancement for Windows, a perfect way to keep a logged-in instance of Stikkit at hand.

Have a Stikkit hack to share? Pop in to the "Widgets, Hacks, and more" forum and let us know.