One missing feature from Adium that’s been bugging me for ages is a way for the file transfer window to auto close.
There doesn’t seem to be any such future for this feature, so I thought I’d knock up a little AppleScript to do the work for me.

Simply drop this into the AppleScript editor of your choice and save it somewhere on your mac, then follow the instructions underneath.

tell application "Adium"
	tell window "File Transfers"
		set visible to false
	end tell
end tell

• Open Adium Preferences and click on the Events icon.
• Find File transfer completed successfully, select it and then click Edit in the bottom right corner.
• Under the action drop down box choose Run an AppleScript.
• Browse to the AppleScript you’ve just saved.
• Apply those settings and you’re done!

You could also add the same AppleScript to the other file transfer events, but that’s up to you. I’m trying to work out a way for the AppleScript to clear the download list, but I’m not getting anywhere at the moment!

MacHeist is over for another year, but you still have six days left to pickup 12 great mac only pieces of software for just $49.
The total retail value for all 12 would be just under $500 and you can get them for just $49, with 25% of that going to the charity of your choice.

I thought I’d share with you a few images I took at the end of last week when Adrian and I were working on a project in iMovie. Each year we film a spoof panto performance at one of the theatres we work at.
Each year we manage to find something about iMovie or iDVD that either causes us issues or makes us laugh.

To the left is a picture of my hard drive status. Nothing really to laugh about as there weren’t any problems. I was just quite impressed at how much input and output activity there was. iMovie HD 6 doesn’t seem to utilise much CPU or RAM, especially on an 8-core mac pro.

The next image I share is something we found both this time round and last year when using iDVD and iMovie. The “less than a minute” remaining count down.

In reality, the less than a minute count down ends up taking anywhere from five minutes to an hour!

I was however quite impressed with iDVD this time round. Once you’ve got your menus built it starts encoding them in the background to enable a faster creation time. This worked pretty well and nothing else ran slowly, even with Aperture running. I do wonder why it starts creating them though when you can quite easily scrap them and start again?!

Nial’s set up a very cool mac only software torrent search portal over at iTorrent.co.uk.
If you like things simple, this is definitely the site to use. It’s fast and helps the end user by combining identical torrents. It’s also mac specific so you won’t have to root through windows stuff.

NetNewsWire 3.1 is free!

By free I mean both that we’ve released it from its cage and that it costs no money. Zero dollars.

NetNewsWire is a great news reader and the fact that it’s now free will surely entice lots more mac folk to use it!