Posts catagorized 'MacMembrane AppleScripts'

An AppleScript to Launch Backdrop Behind Your Current Application

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.

A Quicker Way to Extract Application Icons Using AppleScript

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

Use AppleScript to Turn Your Fonts Folder into a Mini Application

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

Create An AppleScript From the Frontmost Application - Using AppleScript

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!

Show, Hide or Launch iTunes in Context - AppleScript

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.

Open All Linked Safari Movies in QuickTime with AppleScript

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

An AppleScript to Duplicate the Current Tab in Safari

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

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.

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.

Search Popular Torrent Sites with AppleScript

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

Resize Any Window Quickly and Exactly With AppleScript and FastScripts

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.

Send Your Mac Monitor to Bed with Sleep Display

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 [...]