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	Here you'll find various bits and pieces of code that I think others
	may find useful.  They aren't full-fledged software, and aren't likely
	to be useful to you if you're not a programmer.
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	<h3>sporkstorms</h3>
	<p><strong>web-based content management</strong> (blog)</p>
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	<h3>Pinyin to Unicode tone marks in Objective C</h3>
	<p><strong>Objective C class</strong></p>
	<p>
	This was written for <a href="ss_software.html#yafca">Yafca</a>, but you
	might find it useful for other applications.  It converts Pinyin
	marked with digits to proper Unicode with accent marks. (example:
	"zhong1 wen2" becomes "zh&#333;ng w&#233;n")
	</p>
	<p>
	<strong><a href="code/pinyin2unicode/">download the files</a></strong>
	<br />
	<code>example.m</code> shows how simple it is to use this class.
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	<h3>Applescript</h3>
	<h4>(better) combine Safari windows</h4>
	<p><strong>AppleScript "Script Menu" script</strong></p>
	<p>
	Apple's script menu comes with a script to combine all browser windows
	into a single tabbed window.
	It only combines the front-most tab of each window though, making it
	entirely useless to me.  So I fixed it. This script combines all tabs
	in all windows into one tabbed window.
	</p>
	<p>
	<em>Caveats</em> - Safari's "always show tabs" option must be enabled,
	<a href="http://www.apple.com/applescript/uiscripting/">GUI scripting</a>
	must be turned on, and (obviously) the
	<a href="http://www.apple.com/applescript/scriptmenu/">script menu</a>
	must be enabled.
	</p>
	<p>Stick the compiled script in <code>~/Library/Scripts/Applications/Safari/</code>
		<small>(that's the <code>Library</code> in your home folder)</small>
	</p>
	<p>
	<strong>download <a href="code/Applescript/Better%20Combine%20Windows.scpt">the compiled script</a>
	or <a href="code/Applescript/Better%20Combine%20Windows.txt">its source</a>
	</strong>
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	<h3>Xchat Keyword Log</h3>
	<p><strong>semi-unfinished OS X application</strong> <small>(ie: mostly finished)</small></p>
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	<h3>OpenLyrics.org</h3>
	<p><strong>unfinished SOAP web service project</strong></p>
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	<h3>Arrow buttons with Cocoa</h3>
	<p><strong>Objective C class</strong></p>
	<p>
	If you want an NSButton to respond to the arrow keys, your first
	instinct will probably be to simply use <code>setKeyEquivalent:</code>.
	Unfortunately, it's not this simple.  If you've tried this, you found
	that the button "clicks" twice every time you push the arrow key.
	This is because the button responds to both <code>NSKeyUp</code> and
	<code>NSKeyDown</code>.
	</p>
	<p>
	To work around this, I created a simple subclass of NSButton that
	ignores <code>NSKeyUp</code>. To use it follow these steps:
	</p>
	<ul>
		<li><strong><a href="code/ArrowButton/">download 
			<code>ArrowButton.h</code>
			and <code>ArrowButton.m</code></a></strong>
		</li>
		<li>add them to your project</li>
		<li>in <code>Interface Builder</code>, make a subclass of
			<code>NSButton</code> called <code>ArrowButton</code>; set your
			button's "Custom Class" to <code>ArrowButton</code>
		</li>
		<li>In an <code>awakeFromNib</code>, invoke
			<code>[theButton setType:aType]</code> where
			<code>theButton</code> is an outlet to your button and
			<code>aType</code> is one of <code>ArrowButtonTypeLeft</code>,
			<code>ArrowButtonTypeRight</code>,
			<code>ArrowButtonTypeUp</code>, or
			<code>ArrowButtonTypeDown</code>
		</li>
	</ul>
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	<h3>Objective C HTTP client wrapper class</h3>
	<p><strong>Objective C class</strong></p>
	<p>
	<code>NSURLConnection</code> is entirely worthless for making
	asynchronous POST requests (probably GET too?).  So, I wrote my own
	wrapper around the Core Foundation's HTTP functions.  It's not going
	to handle anything fancy (like authentication), and
	isn't meant to.  It's served its purpose and done so admirably.
	</p>
	<p>
	Before you even try to mention  <code>CURLHandle</code>...
	I hate curl, so naturally I hate that
	bloated wrapper around libcurl <small>(don't <strong>even</strong> try
	to reason with me on this :-p)</small>
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	<h3>IMDb to SQL</h3>
	<p><strong>Perl scripts</strong></p>
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	<h3>Pipsqueek modules</h3>
	<p><strong>Perl modules</strong></p>
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