I was just writing an AppleScript to look up words on the excellent NinjaWords and decided to post it in case someone else needs something similar. Since one snippet of AppleScript is not a very meaty post, I’ll throw in a couple extra.
Look up word on NinjaWords
Select a word and copy it to the clipboard. [...]
When Iceland went bust and started selling .is domains I grabbed martin.is. Of course I did. That’s the kind of guy I am. Even as I swiped that credit card (and by “swipe” I mean “typed in all my info into the appropriate boxes.”) I knew I had no idea what I was going to [...]
A short while ago I wrote about my disappointment with the O’Reilly iPhone apps. The other day I noticed that three of the four titles I originally bought had an update. I’ve finally had time to have a look at them and I have to say that I’m pleasantly surprised.
The 1.1 versions are infinitely more [...]
I noticed that my little app for migrating your data from Things to The Hit List still gets some hits. I haven’t really looked at it for ages, but I wasn’t terribly surprised to see that it’s broken under Snow Leopard.
I decided to fix it, expecting AppleScript projects in Xcode to work pretty much the [...]
Update 2: New versions of several of these apps have been released. Things are a lot better.
Update:I’ve had feedback on this post from O’Reilly both by email and in the comments. Both Andrew and the other O’Reilly representative I’ve been in contact with seem sincere when they say that these apps will be updated with [...]
I’ve been a Solid Grey Desktop man for ten or twelve years, but GeekTool; a tool that lets you add all sorts of more or less useful info to your desktop, made me spring a pretty colorful theme today (click the image…). Not in the least because it requires some fiddlin’ around in the terminal [...]
Lately the internet has had a wave of sites using the cherished Konami Cheatcode to reveal easter eggs or similar functionality in the site or app.
I wrote a (crappy but working) class to implement such functionality in ActionScript about a year ago here.
I decided to polish it up a bit for the benefit of myself [...]
Edit: I updated the app to work on Snow Leopard. Go here to get the app or source code.
So this all started out with me pining for the release of the fabled iPhone version of The Hit List. I started out just wanting to create a script that would let me use Things Touch to [...]
Do you use any Adobe products? Tell me if this sounds familiar: “Oh hai! I need to update some totally unrelated stuff on your machine! You know, some camera raw stuff or InDesign whatchamacallits, so I’m just going to force you to quit all your browsers, because lordy lordy who knows what might happen if [...]