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Calling Scripts from SignaturesApril 9, 2007

Many users will find this new feature of SignatureProfiler very exciting. It allows you to interject any data that you can get in text form from any command line into a signature. You could easily incorporate iChat status, uptime count, random quote from a database, etc into you signatures. In addition any standard SignatureProfiler placeholders will be replaced after the script contents are inserted into the signature, so in truth a single signature calling a script can be as dynamic as you are inside that script.

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Using the New Random Quote FeatureApril 8, 2007

With the release of version 1.4.2, you now have the ability to create a simple text file that can be used as a source of random quotations to be incorporated into your signatures. Once you have created this file you can simply insert a simple {random.quote} placeholder into your signature to have it pick one for you. In addition, you can associate an author and a citation/source to that quote to be inserted separately. Read on for more details and some examples.

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Using the iTunes Integration with SignatureProfilerNovember 5, 2006

Although the iTunes integration into signatures is a rather frivolous need, it's one of the original things that I had wanted to do. After all, we Mac users like to share stuff right? There used to be an even cooler shareware tool that would create an image and upload the image to a server even few minutes of what was playing in iTunes. Then you could link to that image in an email or web site or whatever. I liked that very much and thought it was cool, but they could no longer support the server so the service disappeared. That program (whose name I unfortunately can't remember) was better because it always showed the current status. I had to settle for showing what is playing when the message is sent.

Example iTunes Signature

Anyway, below the fold are some examples of how these signatures can be used and a couple of gotchas to look out for and avoid.

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Inserting Link and Image Placeholders

The addition of these two placeholders facilitates the inclusion and editing of images and hyperlinks in a signature. Although the current Signature preferences pane does offer the ability to insert a hyperlink, it's not as obvious as it should be how to properly format it and editing it is even worse and very error prone. Although the solution that SignatureProfiler provides is not perfect, it seems better to me. I hope to improve it even more in the future.

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Using Tail Signatures

You might be wondering how to best utilize the Tail Signature feature of SignatureProfiler. I'll give an example here that will hopefully make this feature clear. It isn't really complicated, but examples are always good to see to give a good idea.

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Adding HTML directly to your signature

With version 1.3 of SignatureProfiler, you can now insert HTML and Web Archive files directly into your signatures through the Signature Preferences pane. Although the process of adding the file is simple, there are some basic things you should know before you try this. See below the fold for more information.

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