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We've (finally) updated talkingpanda.com today with a fresh new look and a new product: iBar.

iBar turns your iPod (any iPod with a screen and a dock connector) into an "ultimate bartending tool" with over a thousand drink recipes, mixing techniques, and even a couple history lessons. Like any good bar should be, it's stocked. Altogether, the Notes content adds up to over 3 megabytes (yes, that's text!) with more than 40 minutes of original, professionally recorded, audio.

Like its sibling iLingo, iBar ships with installers for Mac OS X and Windows XP/2000 (everywhere iTunes is supported) that make installation painless.

And for relevance, here's a little bit about how it's all put together:

• The Mac OS X installer was developed with Python 2.3, PyObjC 1.2, and bundled up with py2app.
• The Win32 installer was developed with Python 2.4, win32all, Tkinter, PIL and is bundled up with py2exe and then made self-contained with NSIS.
• The build scripts for the installer application actually use even more open source stuff. We use JExcelAPI to convert Excel spreadsheets to XML, and Win32::Exe to swap out the ICO resource out of win32 executables -- but no Java or Perl makes it into the redistributable :)

We're also blogging updates and podcasting some of our content, so point your NetNewsWire or Safari RSS over to Talking Panda News!

I've put together a quick bdist_mpkg build of PIL 1.1.5b3:

• Imaging-1.1.5b3-py2.3-macosx10.3.zip for Mac OS X 10.3 (Pre-installed Python 2.3.0)

UPDATE: This is out of date. There is a newer version and other installers available at pythonmac packages.

It's statically linked against:

• jpeg 6b (from darwinports)
• tiff 3.7.1 (from darwinports)
• freetype 2.1.9 revision 1 (from darwinports)

_imagingtk is dynamically linked with the Tcl and Tk 8.4 frameworks installed to /Library.

I've written two read-only PIL plugins for obscure image formats over the past few years. I offered them up for PIL inclusion on image-sig, but received no response whatsoever.

Anyway, here they are:

icns:

Decoder for the Mac OS X 'icns' resource format

SoftimageImage:

Decoder for lossless Softimage PICT (.pic) files

This is a quick hack, you'll need PIL with JPEG support installed to use it.

import glob, Image
print 'n'.join([fn for fn in glob.glob('*.jpg') if Image.open(fn).info.get('progression')])