Archive for the 'FastScripts' Category

FastScripts 2.3.2

Monday, June 4th, 2007

FastScripts 2.3.2 has been released, and contains a few very significant bug fixes: Support for aliases to folders in script hierarchy! Improve performance of syncing changes to script folders Fix display of keyboard shortcuts on non-US keyboard layout Avoid adding menu item separators for empty script folders This was easily the most difficult bug-fix release […]

Are You Feeling Lucky, Punk?

Wednesday, April 11th, 2007

In the years since I first started developing FastScripts, all manner of keyboard-shortcut type solutions have popped up, including the enormously ambitious Quicksilver, and the refined, trigger-action-oriented Butler. But some of us still appreciate FastScripts for its simplicity. Put scripts in the standard Apple-location, cmd-select them from the FastScripts menu, and assign a keystroke. FastScripts […]

FastScripts 2.3.1

Friday, December 8th, 2006

I’ve been sitting on this release too long, because of a very minor unreproducible (harmless!) bug that I’m trying to track down. Anyway, there’s no reason to hold out any longer. Those of you wanting to use the Tab, Escape, and Return keys in your script keyboard shortcuts will be happy with this release! FastScripts […]

Random Color Terminal

Thursday, November 2nd, 2006

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 […]