Archive for the 'AppleScript' Category

AppleScript Shell

Tuesday, December 19th, 2006

A few months ago, Cameron Hayne told me about his nifty AppleScript Shell (ash), which offers an interactive command-line interface to AppleScript, and lets you do some nifty tricks like “tracing” a script’s execution, printing the resulting value for each executed statement.

But I just discovered something about ash that’s truly magical. Think “Remote Script Editor”! [...]

Cheap And Easy NNW Syncing

Tuesday, December 12th, 2006

I really love NetNewsWire - it fits the bill for (almost) all of my aggregation needs. It even has a rather sophisticated syncing mechanism, which got even more advanced after the the product was purchased by NewsGator.

But syncing isn’t really for me. Don’t get me wrong, I want to read news from more than one [...]

iTunes Scripting Seizure

Tuesday, December 5th, 2006

I love iTunes, but it has a number of rough edges that leave me constantly praying that a major revision will come along one day soon. Most of my complaints have to do with it being simultaneously the “only way to manage music and podcasts on the Mac” and yet being frustratingly feature-incomplete in some [...]

Scripting The Hard Way

Tuesday, November 28th, 2006

I’ve been working on iTunes integration for FlexTime. My model for this feature is roughly approximated by GarageBand’s “Send To iTunes” feature, which packages up the current song into an M4A format, sends it off to iTunes, starts playing it, and makes sure the playlist into which it was added becomes visible in the iTunes [...]