Filed under: Software, Productivity, Freeware
Track your life with Onlife
Remember that snazzy tool Active Timer? Onlife is like Active Timer on steroids. Let me tell you, it is totally freaky. Created by a former MIT Media Lab student, Onlife is currently in Beta and free as in beer. So what does it DO?It records (almost) everything you do, say, create, or see in six default apps: Safari, iTunes, TextEdit, iChat, Mail, and Firefox. By "record" I mean just that. It collects (and can tag) your conversations in iChat, your email in Mail, websites you visit, and puts the song info into a database, not unlike Spotlight. However, you also have this nifty graph to see everything, and what you did when. To top it all off, this works in 10.3, which means you holdouts sans Spotlight can get a taste of the power we Tigers take for granted...
It's an interesting concept, though not entirely perfect (hey, it's a beta). Dynamic pages requiring logins don't show up properly, at least in Firefox. In the site screenshots I see NetNewsWire, though there's no support in the app? Apparently the developer is crafting plug-ins, ala QuickSilver, so you may be able to hook in to more apps in the future. Keep an eye on this one...
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
El Payo said 11:35PM on 9-21-2005
You're might be seeing NetNewsWire because it uses Apple's WebKit to render pages... just a guess.
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El Payo said 11:35PM on 9-21-2005
Too bad there's no way to edit comments for ridiculous grammar errors like the one in my post above.
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Gary Yuen said 11:51PM on 9-21-2005
Excellent. Even before Microsoft and someone else was talking about doing something similar, I've thought that someday, the only way the computer will understand you and become more friendly like a real person is, well, to get to know you.
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Richard. said 12:30AM on 9-22-2005
Sounds like advanced spyware is coming to the mac...
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Sean said 12:08AM on 9-23-2005
Doesn't this sound a lot like the Journal in MS Outlook? Since the company I now work for doesn't use Outlook I don't remember anymore, but this sounds familiar.
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marc cardwell said 12:00PM on 9-22-2005
hmmm. looks cool, but what is the cpu and drive space overhead? after a few months, will it eat up gigs of space?
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Jonathan H. said 6:50PM on 9-22-2005
I got Onlife a few days a go, and my only question is: why can't it run in the background? There are plenty of other apps that run in the background and give you a visual output if you open the actual App.
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