Projects / Clarke

Clarke is a small OS X application for updating your Fire Eagle location quietly, in the background. On Leopard (10.5) it uses Skyhook's API to triangulate your position from nearby wireless access points. On Snow Leopard (10.6) it uses Core Location. It's free, and the source code is available on Github.

Download the latest version: 0.4.0.

Changelog

0.4.0 — 22nd September 2009

• Snow Leopard (10.6) compatibility. Lovely.

0.3.1 — 26th June 2009

• Fixed blank CFBundleDisplayName, which resulted in blank process name for Clarke when viewed in Activity Monitor.

0.3.0 — 17th June 2009

• Now authenticates with Fire Eagle using OAuth 1.0a, improving your security. If you are already logged in, you won't see any difference.

0.2.3 — 5th June 2009

• Fixes a bug where multiple updates (many times a minute) would happen after the app had been running for a while.

0.2.2 — 24th May 2009

• Improved memory management

0.2.1 — 22nd May 2009

• Changed first run behaviour to pop an alert view attached to preferences panel, rather than floating around. Because the application runs without a dock it's very easy for the alert to get lost, locking the application.

0.2 — 22nd May 2009

• Fixed major bug with Skyhook. Clarke will now register each installation with an anonymous, generated username.
• Added option (default is on) to pause location updates when the computer is idle for more than 5 minutes.

0.1.1 — 19th May 2009

• Initial release that was broken.