My “Apple Bug Friday” entries today are both related to a really cool feature of Mac OS X: process switching while dragging. As the operating system has evolved, dragging in general has improved. One of my favorite improvements is that while dragging you can now invoke the Cmd-Tab process switcher keys to bring another application […]

If you’re developing applications on the Mac, then you’re either familiar with, or about to become familiar with Xcode, Apple’s free development environment. I have been using Xcode for about five years now, if you count the time I spent with its predecessor, Project Builder. I am more or less happy with it, though of […]

Most of the AppleScripts I use are “plain scripts.” That is, they require a host application in order to be run. AppleScript also supports the notion of a script application, which can optionally accept “dropped” items directly to the script’s icon. These script applications are commonly referred to as “droplets.” Most of my droplets are […]

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 […]