Archive for the 'FastScripts' Category

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 [...]

Hit-And-Run

Thursday, June 7th, 2007

O’Reilly’s MacDevCenter has posted the most definitive article I’ve ever seen on attaching keyboard shortcuts to scripts:

Hit-and-Run: Launching AppleScripts With Keyboard Shortcuts

Jochen Wolters explains the why and the how in brilliant detail. Of course, I’m also excited that his description of the how settles on FastScripts and QuickSilver as the best choices. I especially like [...]

FastScripts 2.3.2

Monday, June 4th, 2007

FastScripts 2.3.2 has been released, and contains a few very significant bug fixes:

Support for aliases to folders in script hierarchy!
Improve performance of syncing changes to script folders
Fix display of keyboard shortcuts on non-US keyboard layout
Avoid adding menu item separators for empty script folders

This was easily the most difficult bug-fix release I’ve shipped yet. See the [...]

Are You Feeling Lucky, Punk?

Wednesday, April 11th, 2007

In the years since I first started developing FastScripts, all manner of keyboard-shortcut type solutions have popped up, including the enormously ambitious Quicksilver, and the refined, trigger-action-oriented Butler.

But some of us still appreciate FastScripts for its simplicity. Put scripts in the standard Apple-location, cmd-select them from the FastScripts menu, and assign a keystroke. FastScripts could [...]