August 26, 2011
If you’re a heavy iTunes users with a significant size music collection, you definitely should know about Doug’s AppleScripts for iTunes. Doug Adams has been writing scripts for iTunes ever since Apple’s inception of its popular jukebox. As far as I can tell, iTunes seems to be the most scriptable of all the default Mac applications.
June 7, 2011
You’re wandering around with your iPod on and listening to something awesome, but you can’t work out what the lyrics are. If only you’d bothered to get lyrics for all your tracks in iTunes before! It’s not like getting lyrics into iTunes is a terribly difficult process. These days, there’s lots of sites with lyrics, plenty of programs that will enter them into iTunes for you and a bunch of handy scripts that can do it too.
March 24, 2011
If you’re a fan of using Mac OSX Applescript, you’ve probably noticed some limitations. Namely, that not all programs can be manipulated directly with Applescript. You can, however, use Applescript‘s User Interface (UI) scripting to fill the gaps if you know how. It’s possible to use Applescript to control the user interface of just about [...]
February 28, 2011
If you’re lucky to have two or more Macs in your home or office, you no doubt find occasions where you would like to remote control a Mac either from another room or from another part of the country. You probably know that you can use the Shared feature to remotely control another Mac on [...]
October 29, 2010
In part one of my introductory article about Apple”˜s automation program, AppleScript, I explained how to basically access this application and use a few of the default scripts that come with every version of Mac OS X. In part two of this article I will explain how to use a few cool and practical automation [...]
October 22, 2010
Most computer users know how tedious it can be to perform menial and repetitive tasks like launching applications and web pages, inserting data into text fields, resizing image files, and typing out frequently used words. Many of us perform larger and more intensive tasks involving two or more applications and several clicks or keyboard shortcuts. [...]
July 28, 2010
One of the most hackable applications on a Mac computer is probably iTunes. This program is no longer just a music jukebox, it’s a multimedia player that includes not only song and movie files, but Apple mobile apps, PDFs, audio books and e-books, and several powerful file management features such as smart folders. If all [...]
January 1, 2010
I’m determined to learn computer programming in my lifetime. Yes, it’s all a foreign language to me, but I so admire the work that developers do. I think they should receive Emmy awards or something. Many of them certainly don’t get the recognition (or financial backing) they deserve. If you’re like me and are curious [...]
December 31, 2009
For a long time now, I’ve been searching for a way to start a torrent download from a remote location. And since I’m on the road most of the day, Transmission’s WebUI isn’t any good to me. I couldn’t be bothered to set it up anyway, it would involve having a fixed IP address or [...]
March 15, 2009
Picture this scenario: Arriving home after work, you drive slowly to your front gate, and the gate door opens automatically. The lamps are turned on and the garage door is opened – also automatically – while your car is approaching the garage. A minute later you lock the car, enter the house, the garage door [...]
