After having upgraded to iPhoto '09 and having the application scan through my photo library of approx. 8000 photos in search of Faces for a while, I sat down to look at the results. At first it seemed to do quite a good job. And after supplying some names to faces it got better. But then I noticed quite a few misfires. It seems the algorithm iPhoto '09 uses for faces looks for circle shapes with 'holes'. I am not a mathematician so I have no idea how it really works but from the results this is the idea I got. Often iPhoto '09 thinks car tyres seen from the side are faces. Fair enough. But then I came across this photo, taken in the catacombs of Paris a few years ago.

I came across this cute little plugin for Apple Mail (on Tiger and Leopard): SignatureProfiler. It adds the "currently being played song in iTunes" to the signature of your e-mail messages. After messing about with it I got it to work. I didn't fully understand the example that the developer put up on his site but in the end this is what I did:

1. Create a signature for a specific emailaddress which contains the placeholder {itunes.display.info}
2. Set this signature as default for this address - so you don't have to select one everytime you write a message.
3. Create the additional signatures for the 4 iTunes states (Playing, Paused, Stopped and Not Running) with the placeholders {itunes.playing.song}, {itunes.playing.artist} and {itunes.playing.album} (only Playing and Paused states would use this I suppose)
4. In the plugin preferences assign the right signature to the right iTunes state.

I think that is it! I might add some screenshots later. I'm not sure whether there are more placeholders than the ones mentioned. {itunes.playing.year} would be nice, album year that is. But then again, that probably is just me.

Update: I noticed it's not really working as it should: when iTunes was stopped (after the end of a playlist) and I created a new message it would just repeat the text of the standard signature, in this case:"best regards, Nils Hendriks" (Twice).