I was wondering if I could make available to the public a freeware utility program for the Mac which allowed Mac users to interact with the bitzi web site? The utility offers a Mac style interface to produce a window for each file where the various hash values can be computed. (It also uses a goofy hack of the desktop database to store values once they've been computed just like I will be using in Mactella). Each window has a submit button which sends an IPC packet to the users default browser which sends a bitprint to the bitzi web site. This should enable the user to find metadata that might already be stored or to offer his own metadata.

I also plan to offer all the source code which includes the slightly edited source code from bitzi. The utility is a Carbon application so it runs native in both OSX and pre OSX systems. I use the bitzi style 'b' as its Finder icon.

Absolutely!

We've wanted such a tool to be available for a while, and thanks for your effort!

If you approve of making such source code "public domain", we'd also be interested in hosting the code and compiled executable/installer at our existing SourceForge "bitcollider" project.

(At some point, we could also be interested in adding the same sort of auto-submit-extracted-metdata functionality that the Win/Linux Bitcollider achieves -- via a temporary HTML file and POST -- but Mac-based lookup would surely interest a bunch of Bitzi followers who've been limited in their use so far.)

Please feel free to coordinate with myself and Rob further by email, and thanks again!