Very quickly hide desktop items and bring them back with a command.
MarsEdit’s blog selector and post manager is one of the things that makes the application such a joy to use. Here’s an AppleScript to bypass it altogether.
The following AppleScript with take the current Safari tab and the tab to the immediate right and open them up ‘side by each’ for you to compare. Vive le Québec libre!
Add a simple feature to TextEdit via AppleScript and Growl.
TUAW has a neat little write up on using TextEdit plus BackDrop to make a minimalist, distraction free writing environment. I quite like the idea, so I wrote up an AppleScript to automate the process.
I download and try lots of apps from the App Store. When I like one enough that I want to broadcast my find to the world, my first stop is Twitter. Here is the fastest way I know of to get App Store links onto the clipboard in a Twitter ready format.
While we wait for a power user release of Twitterrific, here are a few of my own tricks and scripts that make the little app more usable for me.
Someone ask a question on Twitter and you’d like to see the answers they get? Search for replies to the Tweeter with AppleScript.
CompFight is the best way to quickly find Creative Commons images for use on your blog. Use this script to search CompFight right from MarsEdit.
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.
An AppleScript to make opening an application’s icon in Preview a one click affair.
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!
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.
Here is a simple AppleScript that will allow you to search 5 popular torrent engines by keyword and open your search results in tabs.
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.
