Archive for the 'AppleScript' Category

Usable Keychain Update

Monday, January 7th, 2008

Some time ago I shared a free AppleScript interface I put together for accessing the Mac OS X keychain with some degree of speed and grace. The download, named “Usable Keychain Scripting” was my frustrated response to the more or less completely unusable Keychain Scripting interface in Mac OS X.

Usable Keychain Scripting was awesome, completely [...]

MarsEdit to EagleFiler

Thursday, September 20th, 2007

How to get linked to from this blog? Write a cool AppleScript solution using one of my apps :)

Eric Blair figured out how to combine the scriptability of MarsEdit with the extensibility of EagleFiler, to provide a one-key “capture” functionality that sends posts from MarsEdit into his EagleFiler archives.

MarsEdit to EagleFiler

This is what I really [...]

Markdown Scripts For MarsEdit

Sunday, August 26th, 2007

Drew Thaler has put together a pair of scripts for streamlined use of Markdown in MarsEdit, when the blog server is not configured to automatically process Markdown for presentaton.

Markdown Scripts For MarsEdit

With Drew’s scripts, you can write a post entirely in Markdown, then easily convert it to HTML before sending it to your weblog. He [...]

Twitter Undo

Saturday, July 21st, 2007

There are three things you should know about Twitter:

You should use Twitterrific on your Mac.
You only get 140 characters to make your point.
Once you’ve made your point, it can’t be edited.

It’s really frustrating when you type out a tweet quickly and send, only to realize that you’ve made an embarrassing typo or worse, said something [...]