http://context.aetherial.net Musings about context-sensitive and adaptive user interfaces and applications. Tue, 26 Aug 2008 16:01:26 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Pennyworth Punch Clock 1.0b4 is now available for download. This release includes minor bug fixes, new support for iCal calendar time streams, and simultaneous values. Sensors supporting simultaneous values will report them automatically. To manually enter simultaneous values, use a semicolon (";") as the delimiter between values. (e.g. Visitors: Tom; Sally; ... http://context.aetherial.net/2008/08/26/pennyworth-punch-clock-10b4/ Pennyworth 1.5 is now available for download. This update fixes a variety of bugs and adds support for a new idle time sensor. This release addresses application hangs caused by badly behaving AppleScripts and supports individual Growl notifications for individual context aspects (activity, location, social context). Prerequisites MacOS X 10.5 "Leopard" Growl (Recommended): Pennyworth ... http://context.aetherial.net/2008/08/26/pennyworth-15/ Pennyworth 1.4 is now available for download. This update fixes a variety of bugs and adds support for selectively enabling and disabling specific sensors: Prerequisites MacOS X 10.5 "Leopard" Growl (Recommended): Pennyworth can be used without the Growl notification system by viewing the current predictions, but this occupies precious screen real estate and you ... http://context.aetherial.net/2008/08/15/pennyworth-14/ Pennyworth Punch Clock 1.0b3 is now available for download. This release includes minor bug fixes, a new detailed report, support for user-specified date ranges, and a hot key (Command-Control-P) for quickly updating manual streams. Prerequisites MacOS X 10.5 "Leopard" Source There is not a source distribution available yet, but if you'd like the source ... http://context.aetherial.net/2008/07/30/pennyworth-punch-clock-10b3/ Pennyworth 1.3 is now available for download. This update fixes a variety of bugs and adds support user-defined rules and a system-wide hot key (Command-Control-C) that allows you to more quickly make context predictions. Prerequisites MacOS X 10.5 "Leopard" Growl (Recommended): Pennyworth can be used without the Growl notification system by viewing the current ... http://context.aetherial.net/2008/07/30/pennyworth-13/ I wanted to post a quick note a some major new feature that will be available in the next release of Pennyworth. After many requests and some usage of my own, I've implemented a rule-based system in the system to compliment the machine learners. The interface looks like this: On the ... http://context.aetherial.net/2008/07/28/pennyworth-new-rules-functionality/ Pennyworth 1.2 is now available for download. This update fixes a variety of bugs and adds support for undoing the last context prediction by selecting "Undo Last Prediction Correction" from the menu in the status bar. The undo feature is useful for correcting situations where only correct one prediction when two ... http://context.aetherial.net/2008/07/25/pennyworth-12/ After a decent amount of work, I'm happy to announce the release of the first application designed specially for Pennyworth: the Pennyworth Punch Clock. The Pennyworth Punch Clock (PPC) is a time tracking utility for monitoring the predictions produced by Pennyworth (activity, location, social context) along with other relevant events (active ... http://context.aetherial.net/2008/07/24/pennyworth-punch-clock-10b1/ Pennyworth 1.1 is now available for download. This update fixes a variety of bugs and adds support for disabling some sensors from within the application preferences. Prerequisites MacOS X 10.5 "Leopard" Growl (Recommended): Pennyworth can be used without the Growl notification system by viewing the current predictions, but this occupies precious screen real estate ... http://context.aetherial.net/2008/07/17/pennyworth-11/ Thanks everyone who sent in comments and suggestions. They were immensely helpful. I've gone ahead and added the following to my PPC to-do list: 1. Application Stream: This will be an optional time stream (enable in the preferences) that can be turned on to track which applications are active at any given ... http://context.aetherial.net/2008/07/15/updated-thoughts-and-to-dos-regarding-the-pennyworth-punch-clock/