Jul 5, 2009

Mac OS X Stack Overflow Status Item!

I’ve become a huge fan of Stack Overflow over the last few weeks. The community there is helpful and fast and there are quite a few questions about Cocoa and Objective-C! It’s gotten to the point where I visit SO whenever my code is compiling - so I thought it was time to take matters into my own hands and make things easier to follow.

I’ve made a Stack Overflow status item for Mac OS X (also a “menu bar item” or a “system icon”) that shows your reputation and lists questions on the front page containing your interesting tags:

SO Status Item in Action

It’s pretty primitive at this point - you can click a question to view it, or click the tiny arrow to go to your user page. It updates every 90 seconds using the RSS and ATOM feeds from the site, so the most active questions are always available at a glance. It’s compatible with Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6 - so download it and give it a shot! I know there are a lot of things that could be added - so leave a comment and let me know what you think.

Download the Stack Overflow Status Item for Mac OS X (0.5 MB)

3 Comments. Comment or Ping

  1. Hamy

    Dude this is sick.

    Jul 7th, 2009

  2. Nick Ludlam

    Does this work on SL? I’ve tried running it, but it stalled on the initial fetch. Could you release the source by any chance? I’m also a bit of a StackOverflow addict and would love to be running it.

    Sep 8th, 2009

  3. Eimantas

    This is really awesome! It could use a smaller status icon though. Some of us have LOTS of icons there ,)

    Jan 2nd, 2010

Reply to 'Mac OS X Stack Overflow Status Item!'

GOTOW.NET CREATIVE STUDIOS