Entries from mistersquid: a digital fiction tagged with 'scripting'
Instant Gratification: Saving Web Bookmarks Everywhere Using Yojimbo, AppleScript, and MobileMe
I’ve been working with Save PDF to Yojimbo and Yojimbo Collection From Front Window for just a little over a month and I’ve experienced some weird glitches. The most difficult of these glitches seems to happen when I have...
Saving Web Documents Everywhere Using Yojimbo, AppleScript, and MobileMe
As a former academic and currently unaffiliated researcher, I feel fairly compelled to meticulously and comprehensively document my reading, including my online web reading. Years ago, I made the shift to RSS and began using client-side bookmarking software and...
Image Maps with Rollover Effects
Image maps were interesting for about three and a half minutes in 1992. Then JavaScript came out and offered developers and users interactive feedback for linked images. Image maps and their associated <area> tags could not (and still do not)...
Paste Clipboard Contents as Plain Text: An AppleScript
The MacOSXHints community has responded to the script I provided in my last entry with two excellent observations.1 First, it doesn't make much sense just to transform the contents of the clipboard. Better would be to paste the transformed contents....
Convert RTF Clipboard Contents to Plain Text
Much of the work I've been doing recently involves moving information between PDF and RTF documents. Often, the information I'm copying is formatted and Mac OS X presently copies that formatting by default. As a result, pasted text retains the...
Symbolic Links in the GUI via AppleScript, PLUS
Members of the MacOSXHints community have commented and provided some improvements to my original code and the editor of MacOSXHints.com, Rob Griffiths, has posted a brief webography of related scripts and utilities in the editor’s comments of my hint submission.First,...
Make Symbolic LInks in the Finder Using AppleScript
As much time as I spend “under the hood” (as opposed to in the ’hood) in OS X, I’m surprised I haven’t encountered this problem before, which is: aliases made in the finder (with Command-L) are not navigable from the...
Instant Karma!
On 10 April of this year in “Cure application crashes,” the first installment of a series titled “OS X First Aid,” Landau suggests that badly behaved applications can sometimes be rehabilitated if you 3. Restart Your Mac Select the...
flip man page
You move between operating systems, spend a lot of time at the UNIX command line, and open files in GUI-based text editors. You have trouble with the line-breaks and need a way to determine which kind exist in a file...
squidGothic
Does the icon for Apple’s Preview application give you the willies like it does me? Even at the icon’s largest, the kid looks like he’s done that trick where his eyelids are folded up on themselves and now he’s wandering...
Jig's up.
After a run and breakfast, I booted varmint and noticed that there were 83769 tracks left to be downloaded before the iTunes Music Service had delivered 100 million 200 thousand tracks. My iTunes 100K Countdown widget continues to work,...
iTunes Music Service Countdown
If you own a Mac and use iTunes, you probably know that Apple is giving away 50 "special" 20GB iPod to those who download each of the 100,000th songs between the 95th million and 100th million downloaded songs. The...
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