Archive for May, 2008

Core Intuition – New Developer Podcast

Core Intuition is a new podcast from the makers of MarsEdit and Wii Transfer. The first episode was interesting and gave me some insight into the issues relevant to indy Mac developers. Here’s to hoping that the two keep it up!

ScriptBuilders: Safari Web Site Validator 1.0

Safari Web Site Validator is an AppleScript application that will send the page of the currently viewed URL in Safari to W3C Markup Validation Service. Really quick if you validate a lot of pages.

An AppleScript to Duplicate the Current Tab in Safari

Here is an AppleScript that will duplicate the current tab in Safari.

Neat Freak Window Management AppleScripts – macosxhints.com

Neatness freak (not his real name) gives us a few more AppleScripts to move and organize windows. I love this stuff.

Open Safari and Cocoalicious Together with AppleScript

The ability to store your bookmarks online is one of the greatest advancements of internet culture to date. Here is a simple AppleScript to keep the Del.icio.us client Cocoalicious running and ready to post whenever you need it.

Some Words of Mac Wisdom from John Gruber

Words of Wisdom: “I’ve long held that Apple’s share of the overall profits in the PC hardware industry would be a far better measure of success than their unit sales share, in that their product line eschews the high-volume/low-profit commodity market.” John Gruber.

5 Awesomely Named Mac Software Companies

Third party Mac software is what makes OS X such an amazing platform. And if you develop for a cool platform, best to have a cool name to promote your products. Here are the five best named companies in the Mac universe.

Create Drag-and-Drop Clippings in QuickTime Pro

Create a video clip in QuickTime Pro by dragging your selection from the main window into Finder. Simple and easy. Open the clipping and re-save it as a .mov file and you’re ready to go.

2 AppleScripts to Simplify Your MarsEdit Workflow

The biggest objection that one might raise about MarsEdit is its conspicuous lack of a WYSIWYG editor. When composing long and link heavy posts in MarsEdit, text-markup tags can begin to clutter your view and make it difficult to find your place when editing. Here are two AppleScripts to provide a solution to the problem.

Google’s Picasa iPhoto Plugin

A good plugin to send iPhoto photos to Google’s Picasa (via Maciverse). I use Flickr and really like it, but if you’ve a Mac and a Picasa account, this sounds like a convenient way to get your pics onto the site.