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 […]

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 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 […]

If you’re like me, you take great comfort in the presence of the Terminal in Mac OS X. I love a great GUI, but the fact is that many tasks on the Mac are still best accomplished from the behind the wheel of a shiny new pseudo-tty. Usually I get the need for command-line access […]