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I recently posted an AppleScript for X-Chat Aqua that displayed iTunes’ currently playing track. However, there were a few limitations and needed improvements, including:

• Complicated installation — made more so by the fact that X-Chat’s user commands menu kinda sucks.
• It’s not contained — you needed an AppleScript file lying around your system.
• Limited functionality — it was impossible to output the information in an action, for example.

I finally got around to digging a bit …

I’ve released SmartyPants 1.0, a plugin which filters the entry titles and content through SmartyPants, a typographical filter by John Gruber which does things like curly quotes and proper hyphens. This plugin uses PHP Markdown, a PHP implementation by Michel Fortin.

I recommend Habari Markdown in combination with this plugin.

Go to the SmartyPants project page to download it now.

I’ve released Footnotes 1.0, a plugin for Habari that adds, well, footnote functionality. Right now it’s pretty basic (it works, is easy to style with CSS, and did I mention, works?), but I hope to expand the feature set in future releases.

Special thanks to the WP-Footnotes plugin which inspired the concept and some of the initial features.

Go to the Footnotes project page to download it now.

I’ve released Cleaner Dashboard 1.1, which fixes a bug with the width of the boxes. It turns out that if the text is too long (such as the name of a trackback’s title), the text is all jammed up and hard to read. So I fudged with the margins and widths a bit, so hopefully the added spacing will solve that.

Thanks to Mark Jaquith for spotting the bug.

Go to the Cleaner Dashboard plugin page to …

I’ve actually had this code done and sitting around for a few days, but some issues with the WordPress plugin repository delayed my release, but now I can announce that I have released 1.0 of Cleaner Dashboard, a WordPress plugin.

This plugin does two things to your dashboard:

• The WordPress News and Other WordPress News sections are removed. You don’t even load them. Why? So you won’t have to bother with the AJAX …

Inspired by the Underscore Permalinks plugin for WordPress done by Ryan Boren, I created the equivalent for Habari. It makes use of code added in changeset 905, so make sure you’re using that revision or above.

Go to the Underscore Permalinks project page to download it.

Special thanks to Owen for the new plugin filter.