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Friday, March 28, 2003
HomeRun 1.3
HomeRun is a scriptable application that allows users to control and schedule just about any simple home appliance from a Mac running Mac OS X. It also has AppleScript commands designed to integrate with Sony Ericsson Clicker and a qualified Bluetooth enabled phone. This release includes new features, enhancements and bug fixes.
10:15:23 PM
ScreenSaver as Desktop 1.1
This OS X script allows users to use the current screensaver as their desktop picture. Release notes: New, enhanced dialog box to make your selection. You can now launch your screensaver as a desktop foreground effect. You can now open your Screen Effects preferences from the script. Significant code enhancements. New name.
8:29:54 PM
Trash It! 3.02
Trash It! is an AppleScript that force-empties stubborn trash items, deletes dropped files and folders immediately, and more. Release notes: Addresses a critical error where dragging a directory onto Trash It! would not delete the directory.
7:35:04 PM
PreFab UI Browser 1.1
UI Browser is a utility to help scripters write user interface scripts using Apple's new GUI Scripting technology for AppleScript in Mac OS X version 10.2.3 and higher. Release notes: Fixes several minor problems, improves speed, and adds many new features, including hot keys to get information about the UI element under the mouse cursor. Normally priced at $39.95, PreFab is offering an introductory price of $24.95 through April 19, 2003.
2:59:16 PM
Custom Login Message 1.0
Custom Login Message is an Applescript Studio application that can be used to quickly edit the com.apple.loginwindow.plist file in /Library/Preferences to add a custom message to the login panel in Mac OS X 10.2 or later.
2:06:06 PM
Script Debugger 3.0.6 updater re-released
Some Script Debugger users have experienced problems during the update to version 3.0.6. The problems would cause the installer to error and the update would not complete. Late Night Software has quickly responded to this problem with a new updater. If you experience update problems, and you have downloaded the updater before Friday, March 28 at 9:30 AM PST, you are urged to download the new updater.
12:58:46 PM
Entourage Events2Web 2.0.6
Events2Web allows users to transfer calendar events from Microsoft Entourage X (Office X) to a web-based calendar Examples: Original Entourage calendar and Events2Web calendar. [release notes]
12:31:11 PM
Mac OS X Hints: Reset Terminal window environments via AppleScript
mblakele: "I've been building a complicated, brittle system of shell scripts and AppleScript for switching all the little things that 'Location Manager' doesn't handle (privoxy's forward settings, stunnel settings, etc.)." ... "Lately I've been finding that what bash can't do, AppleScript can." ...
11:11:00 AM
Mac OS X Hints: An AppleScript to look up NetBIOS names
xeroply: "When pointing the Finder or Print Center at an SMB (Windows) file share or printer (see this hint), NetBIOS names don't seem to do the trick. Mac OS X wants DNS names or IP addresses." ... "Fortunately, Jaguar comes with some Samba UNIX tools that can help out with this problem, but they're kind of obscure. After much headache and stumbling through web tutorials, I wrote the following AppleScript to make them easy to use for name/address translation." ...
11:05:01 AM
HomeRun is a scriptable application that allows users to control and schedule just about any simple home appliance from a Mac running Mac OS X. It also has AppleScript commands designed to integrate with Sony Ericsson Clicker and a qualified Bluetooth enabled phone. This release includes new features, enhancements and bug fixes.
10:15:23 PM
ScreenSaver as Desktop 1.1
This OS X script allows users to use the current screensaver as their desktop picture. Release notes: New, enhanced dialog box to make your selection. You can now launch your screensaver as a desktop foreground effect. You can now open your Screen Effects preferences from the script. Significant code enhancements. New name.
8:29:54 PM
Trash It! 3.02
Trash It! is an AppleScript that force-empties stubborn trash items, deletes dropped files and folders immediately, and more. Release notes: Addresses a critical error where dragging a directory onto Trash It! would not delete the directory.
7:35:04 PM
PreFab UI Browser 1.1
UI Browser is a utility to help scripters write user interface scripts using Apple's new GUI Scripting technology for AppleScript in Mac OS X version 10.2.3 and higher. Release notes: Fixes several minor problems, improves speed, and adds many new features, including hot keys to get information about the UI element under the mouse cursor. Normally priced at $39.95, PreFab is offering an introductory price of $24.95 through April 19, 2003.
2:59:16 PM
Custom Login Message 1.0
Custom Login Message is an Applescript Studio application that can be used to quickly edit the com.apple.loginwindow.plist file in /Library/Preferences to add a custom message to the login panel in Mac OS X 10.2 or later.
2:06:06 PM
Script Debugger 3.0.6 updater re-released
Some Script Debugger users have experienced problems during the update to version 3.0.6. The problems would cause the installer to error and the update would not complete. Late Night Software has quickly responded to this problem with a new updater. If you experience update problems, and you have downloaded the updater before Friday, March 28 at 9:30 AM PST, you are urged to download the new updater.
12:58:46 PM
Entourage Events2Web 2.0.6
Events2Web allows users to transfer calendar events from Microsoft Entourage X (Office X) to a web-based calendar Examples: Original Entourage calendar and Events2Web calendar. [release notes]
12:31:11 PM
Mac OS X Hints: Reset Terminal window environments via AppleScript
mblakele: "I've been building a complicated, brittle system of shell scripts and AppleScript for switching all the little things that 'Location Manager' doesn't handle (privoxy's forward settings, stunnel settings, etc.)." ... "Lately I've been finding that what bash can't do, AppleScript can." ...
11:11:00 AM
Mac OS X Hints: An AppleScript to look up NetBIOS names
xeroply: "When pointing the Finder or Print Center at an SMB (Windows) file share or printer (see this hint), NetBIOS names don't seem to do the trick. Mac OS X wants DNS names or IP addresses." ... "Fortunately, Jaguar comes with some Samba UNIX tools that can help out with this problem, but they're kind of obscure. After much headache and stumbling through web tutorials, I wrote the following AppleScript to make them easy to use for name/address translation." ...
11:05:01 AM