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Apple Releases Sherlock 3 SDK

Posted by pudge on from the go-go-gadget-sherlock dept.

stevenprentice writes "Ken Bereskin's Radio Weblog just announced, 'Big news on the Sherlock 3 front. We've released an SDK that allows you to build your own Sherlock channels. The user interface of your channel is built using Interface Builder and the logic of the channel can be written in JavaScript and/or XQuery. You need to have the Mac OS X Developer Tools installed along with the 10.2.2 update and the SDK adds a technical reference on building a channel, a Project Builder template, the Interface Builder palette and a sample channel to help give you a jump start.'" It took them long enough, but better late then never.

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  1. Slashdot by bats · · Score: 5, Interesting

    So Pudge, where's the /. channel already?

  2. TV listings with HD info! by Twirlip+of+the+Mists · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I'm not sure if I'll have the time or the motivation to do this myself, but I really would like to build a Sherlock channel for TV listings, similar to Watson's TV channel, but including information about whether a program is available in HDTV or not. The web sources for such info aren't that hot; TitanTV, the best-known, is slower than ass and a pain to use.

    Maybe some enlightened reader with free time and energy will take this idea and run with it.

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    1. Re:TV listings with HD info! by Twirlip+of+the+Mists · · Score: 5, Interesting

      I use Sherlock almost every day. I keep an eye on a number of stocks, and Sherlock shows me their activity and news about them. I use the Yellow Pages feature regularly. The killer for me was the map feature: every entry you find comes with driving directions and a map automagically. Same with the movie browser; Sherlock shows me a list of theaters in my city and the movies playing at them. Click a movie and the trailer starts downloading automatically. Finally, the flight info tracker is critical to anybody who travels even occasionally. It's really neat that it gives you a real-time map of the plane's location as it's in flight, too.

      And all of this without advertising. It's schweeeet.

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  3. Re:SDK? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    What, did you just think Mac software emerged from dirty rags via spontaneous generation?

    SDK's have been available for every new mac technology at least since the early 90's. Eventually the winners get merged into the OS.

    One could argue that Apple pioneered the modern SDK with the Mac Toolbox, which it shipped in ROM in 1984. The Mac *was* a SDK.

  4. Can't beat Watson by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Actually, the plug-ins are not Cocoa bundles like watson's they're scripts ( can you spell S-L-O-W? )

    Watson's SDK is sooooo superior.