Tag: APPLESCRIPT

Falling asleep to music, podcasts, audio books, or online radio can be very pleasant, but what's not so pleasant is waking up in the middle of the night with audio still playing. If you fall asleep listening to iTunes on your Mac, Lifehacker suggests checking out an AppleScript called iTunes Sleep Timer that will automatically stop playback in iTunes after a pre-set amount of time. Don't worry if ...

When switching from one operating system to another, sometimes it's not obvious how to do something that was straightforward to do on the previous OS. As someone who switched from Windows to a Mac a couple of years ago, I was able to find easy solutions to most of the things that I originally struggled with. But there is one irritant that has stuck around for the past two years, and though I've ...

If you have a website, it's pretty likely that you want to know when people are linking to you, and what they're saying. This is a fairly straightforward process if you're not getting linked to every day, but if your site is relatively popular, keeping track of incoming links can turn into a bit of a chore. Daniel Jalkut of Red Sweater Software came up with an interesting tool to help make this ...

Most days I'm totally happy with my Windows PC, but some days I want a Mac.* I've got a thing for scripting of all kinds, and the days I most want a Mac, it seems, are when I see someone doing something really cool with AppleScript, like RubyOSA. To quote its web site, "RubyOSA is a bridge that connects Ruby to the Apple Event Manager infrastructure. In big words, it allows you to do in Ruby what ...