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. [...]
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 [...]
If you’re a Mac user chances are good you already know about MacHeist. In summary MacHeist is a bundle of Mac apps sold at a very ridiculously attractive price. Usually if only one or two apps in the bundle appeal to you you already save money by buying the bundle.
This is all well and good, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The misfits.
The rebels.
The troublemakers.
The round pegs in the square holes.
The ones who see things differently.
They’re not fond of rules, and they have no respect for the status quo.
You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them.
But the only thing you can’t do is ignore them.
Because they change things.
They push the human race forward.
And [...]
The odds are good that you have to keep track on how much time you spend on any individual project for billing reasons or what have you. If you’re anything like me (and why wouldn’t you be) your fantastic right hemisphere of the brain makes you profoundly sucky at performing this dreary task.
Enter On the [...]
I love my (1.gen thoroughly hax0red) iPhone and one of the nice things I discovered a while ago (I can’t remember if this is a firmware 2.0 only trick so I can’t say exactly when) is this little trick. When you’re typing a URL in Safari you can hold down the .com key and get [...]
Macs are awesome.
1. Invert the screen
To freak out your friends just wait until they leave the keyboard for a sec and hit CMD – CTRL – OPT – 8.
In fact I used to do this when using my mac during lectures because the inverted screen was less disturbing in the dark.
To reset it [...]
Whenever someone argues their reluctance to buy a Mac I seem to hear the same reasons over and over again. In an attempt to never have to repeat myself again, here's some food for thought on those same old, same old arguments.
1. All my friends have PC's and I need to be able to share [...]