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. [...]
December 14, 2009 – 14:23
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 [...]
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 [...]
How’s that for a TitleCased title?
So I’ve been checking out Path Finder again. The thing with Path Finder is that it’s very nearly awesome, but there are a few things that bug the hell out of me. I may or may not come back to the most irritating shortcomings in a later post, but I’m [...]
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February 25, 2009 – 01:14
Ever since Stuart Colville presenteded hi TextMate Twitter bundle I’ve been above mildly amused with by being able to twitter straight from whatever arcane code I’m currently working on.
The problem that it somewhat detracted from my awesomeness that I had to point it out to people all the time. Somehow “Look at me! I’m [...]
Scenario: You’re working with the Flex SDK and you’re tracing messages to the Terminal via flashlog.txt. The damn logfile has heaps of clutter in it from the last project you were working on, and you want to clean it up.
Solution: Save this snippet and assign it a Quicksilver hotkey:
try
do shell script [...]
Fairly robust AS3 utility class for evaluating, parsing and tagging URLs.