{"id":654,"date":"2008-12-11T00:57:26","date_gmt":"2008-12-11T04:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.red-sweater.com\/blog\/?p=654"},"modified":"2008-12-11T01:23:17","modified_gmt":"2008-12-11T05:23:17","slug":"fastscripts-is-a-team-player","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/654\/fastscripts-is-a-team-player","title":{"rendered":"FastScripts Is A Team Player"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These days, most of you know Red Sweater Software and my work for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.red-sweater.com\/marsedit\/\">MarsEdit<\/a>, the amazing desktop blog editor that I acquired from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsgator.com\/\">NewsGator<\/a> almost two (!) years ago.<\/p>\n<p>\nBut I love my other apps, too.  And among these, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.red-sweater.com\/fastscripts\/\">FastScripts<\/a> is one of the oldest.  Even before expanding my product line a couple years ago, I didn&#8217;t bother promoting FastScripts much, because it&#8217;s very much an application that &#8220;you either get, or you don&#8217;t.&#8221;  Fortunately, as the years have passed, people continue to get it without much work on my part. Coincidentally, <a href=\"http:\/\/inessential.com\/\">Brent Simmons<\/a>, the original developer of MarsEdit, recently caught FastScripts fever and summarized his thoughts:\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I actually have a fighting chance at keeping up on email thanks to FastScripts! Easily worth more than its price.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\nSee, FastScripts is <em>kind of a nerd tool<\/em>. You won&#8217;t know you need it until you <em>need it<\/em>. And if you never do? More power to you!\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe latest example comes from Dr. Drang, who discovered FastScripts<a href=\"http:\/\/www.leancrew.com\/all-this\/2008\/12\/launchbar-fastscripts-jumpcut-quicksilver\/\"> makes a nice adjunct<\/a> to a couple other tools, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.obdev.at\/launchbar\/\">LaunchBar<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/jumpcut.sourceforge.net\/\">Jumpcut<\/a>. In his post, Dr. Drang describes how he&#8217;s replaced the ever-popular <a href=\"http:\/\/docs.blacktree.com\/quicksilver\/what_is_quicksilver\">Quicksilver<\/a> with this trio of tools:\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The combination of LaunchBar (for launching applications, opening folders, and occasionally running scripts), FastScripts Lite (for running scripts most of the time), and Jumpcut (for keeping and accessing a Clipboard history) has made me a happier and more productive Mac user.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\nFastScripts continues to be a project of love for me, and I am always gratified when I find that love reflected back from users who try it and discover it &#8220;fits the bill&#8221; for them.  There are lots of improvements I can think of for the utility, but it satisfies its core feature requirements very well. Need to run scripts quickly and possibly at the touch of a keystroke? FastScripts might be the right tool for you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These days, most of you know Red Sweater Software and my work for MarsEdit, the amazing desktop blog editor that I acquired from NewsGator almost two (!) years ago. But I love my other apps, too. And among these, FastScripts is one of the oldest. Even before expanding my product line a couple years ago, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fastscripts","category-links"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=654"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":657,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654\/revisions\/657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}