MacDevCenter: Controlling Your Mac with AppleScript and Java

"AppleScript, while a fantastic language for running scripts locally, has minimal support for doing anything else, like sockets or serving Web pages. This is where AppleScript and Java form a powerful team. Scott D.W. Rankin shows you how to put this dynamic duo to work to control your Mac from remote locations."
7:59:32 PM    

iChatStatus includes scripts to integrate with Sony Ericsson Clicker

Web Entourage Software's Tim Conner notes that iChatStatus version 1.2.0 includes scripts that use the proximity feature of Sony Ericsson Clicker to automatically update your iChat availability status based on physical proximity to your computer. Cool! It will be interesting to see how this feature is used and abused.
7:12:07 PM    

Sony Ericsson Clicker

The web site for Clicker is now available and it includes a yet to be populated AppleScript page. Clicker allows users to remotely control a wide range of applications and scripts with a Sony Ericsson phone.
1:23:35 PM    

InDesign Script: StoryCount

Ray Robertson, of Scripting Matters, announces a freeware InDesign script named StoryCount. The script will count the total words and characters in a selected text frame. In addition, if the story overflows, the script reports the number of words and characters in the overflow. [via MacScripter.net]
1:16:53 PM    

Bare Bones Software: TextWrangler

This new text editor from Bare Bones Software, of BBEdit fame, does not include AppleScript support but there are many features that might be of interest to developers. This includes TextWrangler's ability to function as an integrated external editor with Project Builder 2.1 and the ability to integrate TextWrangler with Unix tools and scripts on Mac OS X, by means of the "edit" command-line tool. Since AppleScript can drive shell scripts, I suspect that AppleScripters have the opportunity to script many of the application's features.
12:10:38 PM    

Mac OS X Hints: Convert anything to PalmDoc format

Anonymous: "With the new PDF workflow command (see this hint) and a little AppleScripting, you can convert the text content of any file into a Palm-readable pdbdoc file." ...
10:57:22 AM    

Mac OS X Hints: Running scripts only once per day

Anonymous: "I'm a cron (Cronnix) user, but because of my erratic work schedule, I occasionally need to run a cron job manually before its scheduled time. The problem is that it runs again via cron when its time rolls around. The following script uses AppleScript properties to avoid delivering the same payload twice in any one (calendar) day." ...
10:52:50 AM    

ScriptBuilders News

Updates: Cache Out X 3.2.2, HTML imageShow 0.2, New: Ejection Seat 1.0b1
9:28:43 AM    

iPod Turbo Cloner 0.6

This OS X script copies all MP3's from an iPod to a desktop folder named "iPod_mp3z" while maintaining the folder structure of the iPod. [d/l]
8:50:55 AM