applescript
I always enjoy reading what other people are AppleScripting as it usually gives me some ideas about how to better use my Mac. I use LaunchBar as my application launcher, so Brett Terpstra’s script didn’t directly hit the sweet spot of fixing a problem I had, but it did get my thinking about what I do when I want to hide the current application.
The other day I got temporarily stuck on an AppleScript I’ve been tinkering with because I could not figure out how to test for what I perceived as a “null” value. I had set a variable to a property of a class and was getting the result “missing value”. Here’s how I solved it.
I’ve been taking a look at TaskPaper of late and stumbled across this page on their company wiki. This is a gem. It’s like an AppleScript Dictionary on steroids for the application.
am starting to “think in AppleScript”. I question pretty much anything that I do that seems remotely time intensive or rote and ask myself, “can you script that?” I am adding scripts to my “ideas list” faster than I’m able to write them at the moment.
This morning I read that DropBox announced their new iPhone app, and it occurred to me that you could set up the Dropbox iPhone app to clip images directly into Yojimbo with very minimal effort. I was so pumped. The lack of an iPhone app for Yojimbo was the reason I started using Evernote, so this was a total game changer
I have been pushing myself of late to take my Mac knowledge to that next level, and as far as I am concerned the path to get there goes straight through Mac OS X’s automation tools, and Applescript in particular.
This Applescript is a folder action I wrote that moves screenshots taken with Mac OS X from my Desktop to a designated screenshots folder.
Every now and then I need to copy text into my Twitter client app and need to know if I am bumping against the 140 character limit. I wrote this quick applescript to simplify my life. It counts the number of characters in the clipboard and subtracts that number from 140, so you know if [...]