Dan Wood: The Eponymous Weblog

Dan Wood is co-owner of Karelia Software, creating programs for the Macintosh computer. He is the father of two kids, lives in the Bay Area of California USA, and prefers bicycles to cars. This site is his weblog, which mostly covers geeky topics like Macs and Mac Programming.

Useful Tidbits and Egotistical Musings from Dan Wood

Categories: Mac OS X · Cocoa Programming · General · All Categories

Wed, 10 Sep 2003

Putting your picture into your mail messages

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Users of Apple's Mail program are used to seeing pictures attached to people's email messages, but only if they are .mac users.

I noticed a tip on Mac OS X Hints that led me down a path towards installing my picture on my outgoing mail messages, even though I don't use a mac.com account.

The trick: use the terminal to specify a custom header to be attached to your outgoing mail messages. Here is mine, what I had typed into the terminal to add the preference to Mail (while it's not running):

defaults write com.apple.mail UserHeaders '{"X-Image-Url" = "http://www.karelia.com/dan_watson.jpg"; }'
If you have a web site where you can put your own 64x64 image, you can make your image available to other Mac users as well!

Several more Watson tools get updated

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Today, a new batch of minor updates to Watson tools, too late to make it into the recent 1.7.3 release.
  • Epicurious - Fixed a bug where web pages wouldn't be opened in the background, even if the user had specified that preference
  • Movies - If you specify a large city (e.g. "San Francisco, CA") in the settings drawer, you will now be notified that you need to enter a Zip code instead, so it can locate your exact neighborhood.
  • Pricegrabber - Installed an updated database
  • TV Listings - a few more tweaks to yesterday's unanticipated major update:
    • Searching should now work consistently better
    • Data should now be copied to iCal and EyeTV correctly
    • Removed formatting problems for certain grid items
    • Added [cc] to grid listings that specify it