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Now that I have an iPod Touch, I’m much more conscious about the appearance of my iTunes library. Here are a few tricks to make sure your music looks as good as it sounds.

Backdrop overlays a picture or solid color on your desktop and hides all any files that may have accumulated there. Here is an AppleScript to toggle Backdrop on and off behind your active application.

Macs are easy to use, but they also allow for significant customization. Here are 10 tips to help you become a Mac power user.

An AppleScript to make opening an application’s icon in Preview a one click affair.

Everyone loves freeware! But developers work hard on their creations, and giving everything away for free doesn’t pay the bills. Here are ten of my favorite shareware applications that I was more than happy to shell out a bit of cash for.

The font selection panel in OS X is somewhat uninspiring. Here is an AppleScript to turn your font folder into a mini application.

When the inspiration for a new AppleScript strikes, I’m often working in the application that I want to automate. Nevertheless, if the target task is minor, those few moments that it takes to open Script Editor and enter in the skeleton of tell blocks occasionally dissuades me from creating the script at all. Thankfully, the solution is simple - create an AppleScript to automate the task of creating AppleScripts!

The AppleScripts included with OS X are an excellent source of code to raid when writing your own automations. But I don’t run them ‘as is’ very often and therefore wanted to minimize their presence in FastScripts menu. Here’s how I did it.

Online video sites can provide a quick fix if you’ve a few minutes to spare and don’t want to crack open that Dostoevsky novel. Here is a script to help you watch online movies in style.

It isn’t often that iTunes isn’t running on my Mac. Music is the lubricant of my life, and doubtlessly I’m not alone in this. Here is the best way to quickly bring iTunes to the front, hide it if that’s where it currently is, or launch it otherwise.

What if you could automatically search out movie links in a webpage and open each one in its own QuickTime Player window?

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

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.

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.

Safari is easily my favorite browser for OS X. It’s clean interface, advanced rendering capabilities and quick load times make it almost painful for me to use anything else. Here are a few tricks and tips to supercharge Safari and get the most out of your browsing experience.

Here is a simple AppleScript that will allow you to search 5 popular torrent engines by keyword and open your search results in tabs.

Choosing Safari as your primary browser does come with some sacrifices, and the most prominent among which is Safari’s relative non-extensibility. Learn how to extend Safari’s power by installing SafariScript and linking AppleScripts to hotkeys.

I’ve never been entirely convinced by the little green button on OS X windows. It can be difficult to predict exactly how pressing it will resize some windows, and occasionally, full-screen, regardless of what is being displayed, is exactly what I am after. Here is the fine-grained and keyboard friendly solution that I’ve hit upon.

Recently I’ve been listening to a good deal of audiobooks, especially when falling off to sleep at night, and of course my Mac plays them for me. A major annoyance with this setup, though, is the super bright laptop screen illuminating the room and making me feel as if my bed is on a [...]