{"id":25,"date":"2008-02-15T06:16:39","date_gmt":"2008-02-15T10:16:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bruji.com\/articles\/2008\/02\/15\/did-you-know-gcards\/"},"modified":"2008-02-15T06:16:39","modified_gmt":"2008-02-15T10:16:39","slug":"did-you-know-gcards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bruji.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/15\/did-you-know-gcards\/","title":{"rendered":"Did you know? Gcards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the reasons we collect things is of course to impress others. So what&#8217;s the best way to impress your friends with your latest Super Nintendo Space Invaders? If they&#8217;re Mac users, and of course any real friend of yours will be, send them a gcard.<br class=\"webkit-block-placeholder\" \/><br class=\"webkit-block-placeholder\" \/>Gcards are files that you can quickly create by dragging an entry from Gamepedia&#8217;s table view to your desktop. Attach the resulting file to an email and send it off to all your Mac-loving friends. All they have to do is download the demo version of Gamepedia, double-click the gcard to open it and marvel at your latest aquisition.<br class=\"webkit-block-placeholder\" \/><br class=\"webkit-block-placeholder\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bruji.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/gcard.png\" margin=\"20px\" align=\"center\" alt=\"gcard.png\" \/>\u00a0<br class=\"webkit-block-placeholder\" \/><br class=\"webkit-block-placeholder\" \/>(Of course the other Pedias have this feature as well, only the files are called bcards, dcards and ccards, depending on the program.)<br class=\"webkit-block-placeholder\" \/><br class=\"webkit-block-placeholder\" \/> To really bowl your friends over, send them whole collections. What the heck &#8211; go for your entire library! For that, use the .gamepedia export format found in the export feature.<br class=\"webkit-block-placeholder\" \/><br class=\"webkit-block-placeholder\" \/>For the coders: gcards are standard XML and could be used by any program or scripting language, including web servers. Furthermore, they use the Apple Property List style, making it a snap to use in a Cocoa environment. They can be imported to any program with the following line of code:<br class=\"webkit-block-placeholder\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: Courier; font-size: 13px\">NSDictionary *importedGCard = [NSDictionary dictionaryWithContentsOfFile:pathToGCard];<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the reasons we collect things is of course to impress others. So what&#8217;s the best way to impress your friends with your latest Super Nintendo Space Invaders? If they&#8217;re Mac users, and of course any real friend of yours will be, send them a gcard.Gcards are files that you can quickly create by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[25,26],"class_list":["post-25","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programs","tag-did-you-know","tag-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bruji.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bruji.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bruji.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bruji.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bruji.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bruji.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bruji.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bruji.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bruji.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}