Hide Desktop Items With an AppleScript
Very quickly hide desktop items and bring them back with a command.
A Faster Way to Open a MarsEdit Post Window
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.
A Side-by-Each AppleScript for Safari’s Tabs
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!
Smattering the Second: 9 AppleScripts
Mac OS X Tips with another 9 AppleScripts for basic hard/software functions, including Airport toggling and smart disk ejection.
A Smattering of AppleScripts from The MacTipper
The MacTipper with no less than 9 AppleScripts to control various soft/hardware elements of your Mac. Power in simplicity.
5 Things in My Dropbox
Dropbox is a service/application that lets you sync files, folders or whatever with an online server and, by extension, between your Macs. Here are a few things that I keep synced between my two Macs with the help of Dropbox.
Get the Word Count of a TextEdit Document in Growl
Add a simple feature to TextEdit via AppleScript and Growl.
Flying Meat Releases an Alternative to AppleScript in JSTalk
Gus Mueller, developer of VoodooPad and Acorn, has released a beta preview of a new Mac scripting tool based on JavaScript called JSTalk. Someone should appreciate the effort.
Quickly Extract a Shortened URL for Anything on the iTunes App Store
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.
Scripts and Tricks for Twitterrific
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.
