Chat with people in Apple Stores (iChat | AIM)(lehnerstudios.com)

35 pointsby a904guy15 lat temu7 comments

Chat with people in Apple Stores (iChat | AIM)

http://www.lehnerstudios.com/stuff/applestorechat/

6 comments

Didn't work for me. I tried almost a dozen stores that should be open, (it's almost 4PM GMT right now) and I couldn't find a single terminal to chat on. Good idea, but it needs some fine tuning.

tudorachim15 lat temu

How is this implemented?

X-Istence15 lat temu

The account names used on the computers at Apple stores apparently follow a pattern, the script using that pattern creates all of the accounts possible at a store, then using an API available from AOL grabs the current status of that "username", and their user icon, displaying online or offline status.

The actual script doing the fetching and whatnot is very easy to read: http://www.lehnerstudios.com/stuff/applestorechat/applestore...

joshu15 lat temu

suggestion, put the store town name first, so i can keyboard complete. nobody's gonna type in store numbers to find them.

zbowling15 lat temu

I know! drives me nuts.

mikeflynn15 lat temu

I already noticed some of the locations are wrong:"West County" store is in Des Peres, Missouri, not Iowa.

opian15 lat temu

Good way to crawl mail adresses.

Deviatore15 lat temu