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Here is a short preview of the upcoming version of iPinchMe, called iPinchVU. It uses the handvu library for hand tracking:

Drawing a box with your hand opens iTunes, moving left/right triggers play/pause or switches to the next track. I really hope to release this version soon, but I am incredibly busy right now. Anyways, thanks to everyone who is reading this and commenting. Without knowing that there are people out there appreciating this work, I would have stopped a long time ago.

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I am proud to release a little side project of mine: MacTheClapper.

Description: MacTheClapper is a small program running in your system menu that listens on your Mac’s builtin microphone and executes a user defined applescript when it detects a double clap (or finger snap) sound.

Download: mactheclapper.zip

Howto: Download the application and unzip. Start the program. A small “MC” icon will appear in your system menu. Click on the icon and choose “Settings”. A dialog will popup with wich you may configure MacTheClapper. Everything should be mostly self explanatory. Be sure to quit MacTheClapper and restart in case you changed the AppleScript command. Once you have configured MacTheClapper,  click “Start” in the MacTheClapper menu.  Clapping twice loud enough should now trigger the AppleScript command.

That’s it for now. Drop a comment if you liked the program or have some trouble using it.

For all of you who don’t know what the “clapper” is:

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I’ve decided to stop experimenting and just use some mature open source code. Instead of using my own homebrew hand tracking code, the next version of iPinchMe will use HandVU. Results seem to be promising. Hopefully, I will find some time these days to release the new version. As HandVU is GPL-licensed, the next version of iPinchMe will be released together with all of its source code under a GPL license.

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