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 Wednesday, October 16, 2002
Daring Fireball: Stepping on eWeek's Blue Suede Shoes

- John Gruber offers his take on a report earlier this week of a journaling file system code-named "Elvis" in OS X 10.2.2.
8:41:53 PM    

MacScripter: Adobe Systems joins the AppleScript Pro Sessions in New Orleans

- MacScripter.net has all of the details.
4:31:05 PM    

ScriptBuilders News

- Here's a new ScriptBuilders submission from Jeremy Clark which uses the Jaguar feature mentioned by Ken Bereskin today. AutoRip 0.1b will import songs from a CD automatically if they are not already in the iTunes library.
4:13:46 PM    

Mac OS X Hints: Make Spam Sieve easier to use in Entourage

- Anonymous: "I was very exicted about Spam Sieve, but it's a little cumbersome to use in Entourage. Spam Sieve adds Bayesian (as in Jaguar Mail) spam filtering to Mailsmith, Entourage, and PowerMail. I've updated the Applescripts that come with it to make it easier to use, and I thought you might be interested in sharing these ideas with other users."
10:56:11 AM    

AppleScript Studio example: Saving 'Properties' between launches of an app

- Jesse Shanks, in a message to the applescript-studio mailing list: " If you are up to AppleScript Studio 1.2, you can pretty easily read and write user defaults in a plist and it is quite similar to the old properties behavior. Here some examples from a Quicktime controlling app I have been working on." AppleScript Studio beginners: If you have scripts that store properties between runs, and you plan to move the scripts into Studio apps, this is an example of what lies ahead. In essence, you'll need to create a preference file/plist to store the properties. A plist is a property list.
9:27:19 AM    

The Little Page of AppleScripts has moved

- The home of AppleScript Web Publishing System (AWPS), ASTest and numerous script libraries and applications has moved. Please update your bookmarks to reflect the new URL.
8:44:41 AM    

Jaguar: More control over CD/DVD player when disk is inserted

- Apple's Ken Bereskin continues to reveal the 150 new features in Jaguar: "There's a new System preference that gives you full control over what happens when you insert a CD or DVD in Jaguar." ... "For example, let's say you have the world's coolest AppleScript"...
8:03:39 AM