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February 28th, 2012: How to Check if Growl is Running with AppleScript
Here's the AppleScript syntax to check if the Growl process is currently running.
February 21st, 2012: Brett Terpstra's TextExpander tools for AppleScript
Brett Terpstra released a set of TextExpander snippets for AppleScript.
February 20th, 2012: An AppleScript to Create a Linked List Post
Here's how I use AppleScript and BBEdit to create linked list posts for this blog.
January 30th, 2011: Brett Terpstra on Toggling and Hiding Apps via AppleScript
I always enjoy reading what other people are AppleScripting as it usually gives me some ideas about how to better use my Mac. I use LaunchBar as my application launcher, so Brett Terpstra's script didn't directly hit the sweet spot of fixing a problem I had, but it did get my thinking about what I do when I want to hide the current application.
October 22nd, 2009: An AppleScript Function to Zero Pad a Value
An AppleScript function to zero-pad integers.
October 14th, 2009: Testing for Missing Value in AppleScript
The other day I got temporarily stuck on an AppleScript I've been tinkering with because I could not figure out how to test for what I perceived as a "null" value. I had set a variable to a property of a class and was getting the result "missing value". Here's how I solved it.
October 9th, 2009: Great Examples of TaskPaper AppleScripts
I've been taking a look at TaskPaper of late and stumbled across this page on their company wiki. This is a gem. It's like an AppleScript Dictionary on steroids for the application.
October 7th, 2009: Thinking in AppleScript
am starting to "think in AppleScript". I question pretty much anything that I do that seems remotely time intensive or rote and ask myself, "can you script that?" I am adding scripts to my "ideas list" faster than I'm able to write them at the moment.
October 1st, 2009: Use Dropbox to Create a Yojimbo iPhone App
This morning I read that DropBox announced their new iPhone app, and it occurred to me that you could set up the Dropbox iPhone app to clip images directly into Yojimbo with very minimal effort. I was so pumped. The lack of an iPhone app for Yojimbo was the reason I started using Evernote, so this was a total game changer
September 30th, 2009: Learning Applescript... One Script At A Time
I have been pushing myself of late to take my Mac knowledge to that next level, and as far as I am concerned the path to get there goes straight through Mac OS X's automation tools, and Applescript in particular.
September 30th, 2009: An Applescript to Move Screenshots From the Desktop
This Applescript is a folder action I wrote that moves screenshots taken with Mac OS X from my Desktop to a designated screenshots folder.
June 29th, 2009: Applescript: Count Characters in Clipboard for Twitter