Archive for the 'FastScripts' Category

Safari Link Sniffing

Friday, September 9th, 2005

Keeping with the Javascript theme of my last entry, I’d like to share one of the ways I’ve used Safari’s AppleScript accessible javascript model to improve the quality of my web browsing experience. It occurred to me one day while reading some long article on Salon.com that something had been bothering me for a long […]

Bug Report Friday

Friday, September 2nd, 2005

When I first read Dan Wood’s plan for Report-An-Apple-Bug Friday, I was amused but a little disgruntled by the idea. Turns out this once long-term Apple employee has a bit more loyalty than he thought he did. Or is it just empathy? The part that turned me off was the idea that everybody should cooperate […]

Rock the Funky Finder Regex

Wednesday, August 24th, 2005

I’m on a bit of a productivity kick lately. I’m trying to listen to the little voice in my head that speaks up when I’m doing something incredibly tedious and error-prone, and could clearly be automated. Some people would say that spending 3 hours cranking out a script that might save you at most a […]

FastScripts 2.2.5

Tuesday, August 23rd, 2005

FastScripts 2.2.5 has been released and is available for download. This update fixes a few minor bugs and adds a significant new feature: custom menu sorting. FastScripts now recognizes scripts and folders named with the “BBEdit style” organization convention, and will sort them appropriately in the FastScripts menu. For those of you unfamiliar with this […]