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How-To: Proximity Automation

Written on June 11, 2009 by Bryan Schuetz and 20 people have commented

Would you like to be able to use the magic of Bluetooth to automatically pause iTunes, set your away message in Adium, and lock the screen simply by standing up and walking away from your desk? Of course you would — it’s future-tastic (jetpacks not included)! Let’s take a look at how to pull this [...]

Scripting iWork: Numbers and Yahoo! Finance

Written on February 09, 2009 by Bob Rudis and 8 people have commented

When iWork ‘08 was released it felt like a half-implemented suite for a whole host of reasons: lack of interoperability between the applications, very basic functionality, performance issues — especially with Numbers ‘08 — and lack of scripting. Apple’s new iWork ‘09 suite has addressed many of those issues, and the one feature that truly [...]

Tales From the Command Line: textutil

Written on December 18, 2008 by Bob Rudis and 8 people have commented

I really enjoy the overall experience reading books and articles on my Sony PRS-500 eBook reader, but dislike having to fire up Boot Camp or VMware into Windows in order to purchase books from the Sony eBook Store, especially when there are thousands of books in the public domain and tons of blog and article [...]

Auto-Remount Disconnected Shares

Written on May 15, 2008 by Jenny Kortina and 6 people have commented

Some server administrators set share drives to auto disconnect users after a set time of inactivity (ie fifteen minutes). As a user it’s super frustrating to connect to a server every time you need access. I’ve written an AppleScript that first checks to see if the share is mounted, if it is mounted [...]

MacTech Offers Free Scripting Book For Office 2008

Written on March 27, 2008 by Bob Rudis and No one has commented

Microsoft made no attempt to hide the fact that they would be dropping support for VisualBasic scripting when they released their new office suite for the Mac. While this has caused some serious angst in corporate environments, the uproar was slightly muted due to the inclusion of pretty decent AppleScript support in all of the [...]