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

AppleScript is a powerful tool and should be respected as such. Ghosts in the code…

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

TUAW’s neat little script to create iCal todos.

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.

Apple should abandon AppleScript for JavaScript: “I hold a soft spot in my heart for AppleScript. But I’m slightly more of a pragmatist than a romantic. If JavaScript is what Apple cares most about, and JavaScript is where massive performance improvements are going to be made, then Apple should leverage those improvements to the benefit [...]

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

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.

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

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

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.