Archive for the 'FastScripts' Category

FastScripts 2.6.9: Bug Fixes

Thursday, December 10th, 2015

FastScripts 2.6.9 is now available from the FastScripts home page, and will be submitted to the Mac App Store for review by Apple. This is a minor bug fix update to address a couple issues. One has to do with subtleties around the way shell scripts are executed by FastScripts. Previously, FastScripts was inadvertently passing […]

Cmd-Number Shortcuts For Safari 9

Thursday, July 9th, 2015

If you’re a Safari user and you’ve updated to the Safari 9 or OS X 10.11 beta, you may have noticed a minor change in the default keyboard shortcuts for the app. In Safari 8 and earlier, keyboard shortcuts combining the Command key and a number, e.g. Cmd-1, Cmd-2, Cmd-3, would open the corresponding bookmark […]

Yosemite’s Automation Improvements

Wednesday, October 29th, 2014

Ray Robertson of Automated Workflows offers a good rundown of the automation changes Apple provides in OS X Yosemite and their iWork suite of apps. When you look at the mass of changes, including enhancements to AppleScript, Automator, and the addition of an all new JavaScript dialect for application scripting, it reads like a pretty […]

FastScripts 2.6.8: Fix Folder Aliases

Friday, October 24th, 2014

FastScripts 2.6.8 is available now from the FastScripts home page, and will soon be submitted to the Mac App Store for review by Apple. For years FastScripts has supported the ability to follow Mac OS X aliases, so you can drop an alias to a script, or an alias to a folder of scripts, and […]