A lot of AL users have been asking whether AL6 works with OSX Lion. Unfortunately, it does not. AL relies very heavily on notifications from the OS that networks have changed, or ethernet has come online, etc. Many of these notifications have changed in Lion, meaning that AL6 has to be completely re-worked in order to function. This is also true for many snapshot actions. Given the exciting progress I had made re-writing AL7 from the ground up, it makes most sense to devote myself to completing that. The other issue is that I have started a new and exciting job that is taking all of my free time. I am not able to develop at all.

AirPort Location was a very exciting learning experience, but it now is too big of an animal for me to tame in time for Lion. Hopefully I will be able to update AL in the future, but for now it will remain Snow Leopard only.

Thanks to everyone who has supported AirPort Location!

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Bug Fixes:

• Overhauled Address/Map detection methods to fix memory, network issues
• Updated Adium status to account for fast computers.
• Fixed a bug causing locations to not be properly deleted on some machines
• Various bugfixes…

Final examinations are consuming my time for the next two weeks. Until then, please keep sending reports and suggestions and I’ll do my best to queue them in order of receipt & importance.

I have some very exiting progress on AL7. I think that you all will enjoy it very much.

I am sure that many of you have noticed today that iOS seems to record your location data. This is highly interesting to me, so I downloaded the source and modified it to output the parsed location data as a CSV file.

Here is my modified source

Here is a zip of the modified Application

Personally, I’m not sure how OSX or Windows users can get along without a quick launch application. My personal favorites are Alfred for Mac and Launchy for Windows (although I haven’t regularly used Windows for about two years).
Besides finding files and launching apps my favorite features of these are customized queries with keywords. For instance to search IMDB for me, you’d type: imdb andrew freyer to find out that I’m not listed at all.

Alfred allows custom keyword searches too. By copying a search URL and adding the token {query}, you can use your application launcher to search any website you want. A little known feature of AirPort Location is that it responds to a request for the url al://Snapshot Name. When this URL is requested from any application, AirPort Location will immediately apply the named snapshot. For instance, this would apply your snapshot named Home:

Here’s how to use alfred to set this up:

1. Open Alfred Preferences, and activate the “Features” section.
2. Click “Custom Searches” on the left and click the “[+]” sign to add a custom search
3. For the search URL: “al://{query}“, for the Display text: “Apply AirPort Location Snapshot…” for the keyword, “al“
   

Using this method, you can launch any snapshot just from your keyboard using your favorite application launcher. You can launch your movies snapshot when you want to watch movies, or your working snapshot when you need to be distraction free.