Erik Barzeski stumbled on a cool trick with Terminal’s scriptability, allowing him to save presets for his favorite color schemes in AppleScript. His approach is especially brilliant since he’s using FastScripts to trigger the scripts! This gave me a little whimsy of an idea, that it would be cool to have a script on hand […]

Relaunch is a nifty application that lends itself toward structuring your time into working “modes.” It lets you save a snapshot of your running applications at any time, and save it for later restoration. So you could keep Relaunch documents around for “Work,” “Composing Music,” etc. It even has a nifty auto-snapshot feature that will […]

You’re a good developer. You’ve tackled lots of tough problems they’ve thrown your way. You are respected by your peers. You’ve done a great job with your life! And then there’s that nagging in the back of your head. You can’t kill the guilt of that glaring omission – the horror of horrors. The place […]

Anybody who’s tried to use Apple’s Keychain Scripting has probably learned that its performance and functionality are both fatally flawed. The quintessential flaw in Keychain Scripting’s performance can be observed by simply asking it to find a key by some attribute test. If it works, then it will take a long, long time. All of […]