I came across this cute little plugin for Apple Mail (on Tiger and Leopard): SignatureProfiler. It adds the “currently being played song in iTunes” to the signature of your e-mail messages.

After messing about with it I got it to work. I didn’t fully understand the example that the developer put up on his site but in the end this is what I did:

1. Create a signature for a specific emailaddress which contains the placeholder {itunes.display.info}
2. Set this signature as default for this address - so you don’t have to select one everytime you write a message.
3. Create the additional signatures for the 4 iTunes states (Playing, Paused, Stopped and Not Running) with the placeholders {itunes.playing.song}, {itunes.playing.artist} and {itunes.playing.album} (only Playing and Paused states would use this I suppose)
4. In the plugin preferences assign the right signature to the right iTunes state.

I think that is it! I might add some screenshots later.

I’m not sure whether there are more placeholders than the ones mentioned. {itunes.playing.year} would be nice, album year that is. But then again, that probably is just me.

Update: I noticed it’s not really working as it should: when iTunes was stopped (after the end of a playlist) and I created a new message it would just repeat the text of the standard signature, in this case:”best regards, Nils Hendriks” (Twice).

It’s been awhile since my last post but guess what? I’ve been busy!

Yes indeed. Apart from getting adjusted to a new country and its customs and climate, going on a 5 day trip to Bangkok I have also been keeping myself busy doing some work at home. Created a business card, put up a website for Popel and edited some of the other older sites I still maintain.

And last but certainly not least: I got an iMac!!!

And I have been playing with it ever since I unpacked and installed it. I think I have my work flow set up ready to go now. Still using Komodo Edit for XHTML, CSS, JavaScript and PHP. Transferred all the important data from my old desktop PC (which typically died a few days later only to be mysteriously resurrected the day after).

So I am ready. Bring it on!