It’s hard to believe FastScripts is just over ten years old. When I first started developing the app, one of my primary goals was to improve upon the relatively slow launch and execution time of scripts when using Apple’s own built-in script menu. At the time, my analysis suggested that the sluggishness was primarily due [...]

Michael B. Johnson wondered out loud on Twitter about the possibility “focusing” on a single calendar in Apple’s default Calendar app for the Mac: In Calendar on the Mac, is there a way to “mute” or “invis” all calendars but one? I have a sparse calendar, and many non-sparse ones… — Michael B. Johnson (@drwave) [...]

Today, Apple released iTunes 11, the anticipated update that has been due “sometime in November” since they announced it earlier this year. Judging from reactions on Twitter it’s having a mixed response: the new UI is, as expected, either refreshing or distressing depending on your particular attachment to the old look-and-feel, and the extent to which [...]

I released FastScripts 2.6.1 today, which restores support for Mac OS X 10.4 and 10.5, and also includes a few bug fixes and enhancements. One cool trick in 2.6.1 is the way FastScripts behaves when your scripts include “keystroke” commands to synthesize keyboard presses. In the past, these scripts were tricky to get right in FastScripts, [...]