Applescript

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• Time Machine: Setup on and restore from a NAS device

  
  Linux/Unix News - motd.ambians.com — Authority: 460
  This hint explained how to set up a network attached storage (NAS) device as a Time Machine backup. To make this process easier, Ive created an AppleScript that makes the creation and setup a one-step process -- just drag and drop your mounted NAS onto the following AppleScript to ready the drive for Time Machine ...
  1 day ago

• Global Variables in AppleScript

  
  The MacTipper Blog — Authority: 124
  Ive always thought that, when writing an AppleScript subroutine, one needed to pass all the terms to the subroutine. However, if youre working with a constant variable, a Global Variable is called for. What is a global variable? Global variables allow you to define which terms should be shared throughout the ...
  5 days ago

• Apple Training Series: AppleScript 1-2-3

  
  Webmaster News — Authority: 144
  You could be saving yourself time and money right now using tools you probably didn’t even know you had. AppleScript, a powerful and free scripting tool included on every Macintosh, enables individuals, professionals, and businesses to save time and money by automating time-consuming, repetitive tasks. Hallmark, for ...
  6 days ago

• Beta Beat: Gruml brings GReader to the Mac desktop

  
  F-Default — Authority: 560
  -: Software , Reviews , Beta Beat I discovered Gruml a while back, but didn’t write about it right away because there were too many glitches in the first beta to make it really interesting. Thankfully, recent releases have smoothed out the vast majority of the kinks, and I can now present — with gusto — a great ...
  2 weeks ago

• Help me write a script in OSX

  
  Ask MetaFilter — Authority: 646
  How do I create a file-handling script in OSX? I want to create a script that will throw whatever is in my CF card in the trash, empty the recycle bin and then eject the card. I frequently transfer pictures from my card to my computer and with lightroom 2 they dont automatically erase off the card so I need to do it ...
  2 weeks ago

• Mac Automation Made Simple (Video)

  
  Life Is Risky — Authority: 437
  If you have thought about getting into Automation on your Mac but have been held back by the less than newbie friendly newbie guides, then take a look at this video. He has 20+ videos out there and they are all geared towards explaining a usable concept in an understandable way. Highly recommended. In this podcast ...
  2 weeks ago

• How to: Sync Address Book entries with phone numbers to iPhone

  
  IPHONETOUCH.BLORGE — Authority: 496
  Are you annoyed that your iPhone includes many records with no phone numbers? Here’s a sweet little trick — including a ground floor primer on copying, compiling and running an AppleScript — to synchronize only Address Book entries that include telephone numbers. As an iPod touch user, I’m quite happy to ...
  2 weeks ago

• Batch move your playlists to an iTunes folder

  
  Macbook Pro, iMac, iPod, iPhone, iTunes, Mac, Apple News and Shopping — Authority: 141
  Filed under: How-tos , Tips and tricks , iTunes , AppleScript Folders, which have been a feature of iTunes since iTunes 5.0, serve as a means to better organize your music. For example, you could create genre- or artist-based folders with corresponding playlists nested within them. But moving playlists into ...
  2 weeks ago

• Batch move your playlists to an iTunes folder

  
  F-Default — Authority: 560
  -: How-tos , Tips and tricks , iTunes , AppleScript Folders, which have been a feature of iTunes since iTunes 5.0, serve as a means to better organize your music. For example, you could create genre- or artist-based folders with corresponding playlists nested within them. But moving playlists into folders isn’t the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Batch move your playlists to an iTunes folder

  
  Sell Off Music — Authority: 162
  Filed under: How-tos , Tips and tricks , iTunes , AppleScript Folders, which have been a feature of iTunes since iTunes 5.0, serve as a means to better organize your music. For example, you could create genre- or artist-based folders with corresponding playlists nested within them. But moving playlists into ...
  2 weeks ago

• Batch move your playlists to an iTunes folder

  
  The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) — Authority: 783
  Filed under: How-tos , Tips and tricks , iTunes , AppleScript Folders, which have been a feature of iTunes since iTunes 5.0, serve as a means to better organize your music. For example, you could create genre- or artist-based folders with corresponding playlists nested within them. But moving playlists into ...
  2 weeks ago

• TextExpander 2.71 Released

  
  clipotech — Authority: 127
  TextExpander allows users to define abbreviations for frequently-used text strings and images, also known as snippets. Whats new in TextExpander 2.7.1: - Imports Spell Catcher shorthand files (exported in XML format) - Supports plain text snippets nested in AppleScript and shell script snippets - Fixed ...
  3 weeks ago

• Applescripting for Dummies

  
  Life Is Risky — Authority: 437
  I have decided to delve a bit into Applescript. There are tons of things I would like to try and figure out now that I have a taste for what it can do. Of course I am just at the learning stage so the changes are slow and pretty painful still but hey, I have time! If you use Applescript I would love to hear about some ...
  3 weeks ago

• Shorten URLs Using j.mps API

  
  The MacTipper Blog — Authority: 124
  If youre scripting something that sends URLs, its a nice touch to shorten the URLs. Fortunately, this is really quite simple using the j.mp API. In AppleScript, use the following code: set the_url to "http://www.mactipper.com/" do shell script "curl http://j.mp/api?url=" & the_url Just set "the_url" to the ...
  3 weeks ago

• I Wish I Could Just Throw It At the Net

  
  Ask MetaFilter — Authority: 646
  Auomating Mac Filter: I want to upload a movie to a free video sharing site from the command line. How? I currently have a system where I email an image to my Mac Mini which upload the image to TinyPic then Twitters the caption and image URL: ("This is a cool picture! - http://bt.ly/example") I want to do the same ...
  3 weeks ago

• SuperDuper! scripts redux

  
  And now it's all this — Authority: 129
  You may have heard that a new version of SuperDuper! was released yesterday, so I thought I’d repost my SuperDuper! scripts. I don’t think I’ve made any changes since these scripts were first posted, but this seemed like a good time to bring them all together in a single article. I use SuperDuper! instead of ...
  4 weeks ago

• Adapting BBC Radio recording scripts

  
  And now it's all this — Authority: 129
  Reader Chris Nelms sent me a nice email over the weekend. He’s a fan of several BBC Radio 4 programs and had been recording them with Audio Hijack Pro for listening to in his car—similar to my time-shifting of Radio 2 shows, except that Chris’s recordings probably have more legitimacy, as he’s a UK ...
  4 weeks ago

• Send Email - With Body - From the Command Line

  
  The MacTipper Blog — Authority: 124
  I mentioned a short time ago about sending emails from the command line. However, in the context of sending emails from scripts, you could only send the subject line of an email. I recently discovered that it is possible to send a scripted email message with both a subject and a body. The code is: echo "This is ...
  4 weeks ago

• AppleScript Studio Programming for the Absolute Beginner

  
  EShare — Authority: 123
  AppleScript Studio Programming for the Absolute Beginner by Jr., Jerry Lee Ford Paperback: 384 pages Publisher: Course Technology PTR; 1 edition (October 27, 2006) Language: English ISBN-10: 1598633031 ISBN-13: 978-1598633030 Description of AppleScript Studio Programming for the Absolute Beginner ...
  4 weeks ago

• Scripting with iTunes artwork

  
  And now it's all this — Authority: 129
  Mac oldtimers remember PICTs. No, not Picts , PICTs . It was the QuickDraw library’s all-purpose graphics format, handling both bitmapped (i.e., MacPaint ) and object-oriented (i.e., MacDraw ) graphics. Back in the day, every Mac graphics program had a way of importing or exporting PICTs. But PICTs have fallen ...
  5 weeks ago

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