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Thursday, January 23, 2003
AppleScript and application services in the closet
"It's good stuff, Apple, show it off."
8:09:49 PM
Easily toggle graphics in Mail
Two recent Apple KnowledgeBase articles discuss how HTML graphics in mail relate to spam and how to turn HTML graphics on or off. Instead of making a trip to the Preferences window to change the HTML graphics option, here's a simple AppleScript to toggle that option. [MacMegasite]
7:09:18 PM
oopener 0.9
oopener is a AppleScript script that integrates OS X, X11.app, and OpenOffice 1.0.1. The two main features are: (1) automatically open X11.app as needed, open OpenOffice, bring to front and (2) drag office-type docs into its icon to pull up the document in OpenOffice.
3:40:30 PM
Daring Fireball: Scripting Safari URLs
John Gruber: "In my initial review of Safari, I complained about its lack of scriptability. Ends up that criticism was somewhat misguided — Safari actually is fairly scriptable."
3:23:28 PM
Schedule iTunes AppleScripts with iCal
Doug Adams offers advice and scripts to help get you started using iCal to schedule iTunes scripts. A visit to Apple's iCal scripting page is recommended to prepare iCal for the scheduled scripts.
Note: On January 19, it was noted here that the instructions on the iCal scripting page were incorrect. The error has since been corrected.
3:13:48 PM
Startup Syringe 1.0.6
Startup Syringe is a AppleScript script that allows users to change the Apple logo, displayed at startup time, to an image of their choice. This version works only with Mac OS X 10.2.4. For 10.2 through 10.2.3, use Startup Syringe 1.0.5.
12:14:44 PM
ScriptBuilders News
Updates: Cache Out X 2.5.1
11:45:47 AM
Dev Note: Special Move 1.0
Special Move is a free drag'n'drop application that let's you enable or disable the auto-extraction feature of disc images (.dmg files) that was silently introduced with Mac OS X 10.2.
10:10:50 AM
"It's good stuff, Apple, show it off."
8:09:49 PM
Easily toggle graphics in Mail
Two recent Apple KnowledgeBase articles discuss how HTML graphics in mail relate to spam and how to turn HTML graphics on or off. Instead of making a trip to the Preferences window to change the HTML graphics option, here's a simple AppleScript to toggle that option. [MacMegasite]
7:09:18 PM
oopener 0.9
oopener is a AppleScript script that integrates OS X, X11.app, and OpenOffice 1.0.1. The two main features are: (1) automatically open X11.app as needed, open OpenOffice, bring to front and (2) drag office-type docs into its icon to pull up the document in OpenOffice.
3:40:30 PM
Daring Fireball: Scripting Safari URLs
John Gruber: "In my initial review of Safari, I complained about its lack of scriptability. Ends up that criticism was somewhat misguided — Safari actually is fairly scriptable."
3:23:28 PM
Schedule iTunes AppleScripts with iCal
Doug Adams offers advice and scripts to help get you started using iCal to schedule iTunes scripts. A visit to Apple's iCal scripting page is recommended to prepare iCal for the scheduled scripts.
Note: On January 19, it was noted here that the instructions on the iCal scripting page were incorrect. The error has since been corrected.
3:13:48 PM
Startup Syringe 1.0.6
Startup Syringe is a AppleScript script that allows users to change the Apple logo, displayed at startup time, to an image of their choice. This version works only with Mac OS X 10.2.4. For 10.2 through 10.2.3, use Startup Syringe 1.0.5.
12:14:44 PM
ScriptBuilders News
Updates: Cache Out X 2.5.1
11:45:47 AM
Dev Note: Special Move 1.0
Special Move is a free drag'n'drop application that let's you enable or disable the auto-extraction feature of disc images (.dmg files) that was silently introduced with Mac OS X 10.2.
10:10:50 AM