Category Archives: applescripting

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Twitter your Keynote slides via Applescript

11/26/2009 – 9:37 am

You've all heard of a thing called Twitter. Now Gentry Underwood has created an AppleScript that will send predetermined messages to Twitter during your Keynote* slides.
It uses a mechanism where you can simply put [twitter][/twitter] tags in the presenter notes section of a slide. When you get to that slide, the Tweet goes out to [...]

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Sleep in 15 Seconds

12/11/2008 – 2:23 pm

I use a Mac Mini to run my TV set. Gotta love that iTunes. Sometimes, it's important to put the machine to sleep, but putting it to sleep and then putting down the bluetooth mighty mouse wakes it back up. So I wrote an AppleScript that I keep around on my desktop.
It [...]

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My First Widget

1/22/2007 – 10:58 am

Double-click on the widget and follow your dreams.

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Full Circle with iPod Nano

9/15/2005 – 2:38 pm

They *almost* got it right

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Lyrical additions to iTunes

9/8/2005 – 10:19 am

who would have ever thought apple would include lyrics in the meta data for a song?

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AppleScript: Using iCal/iTunes as an alarm clock

4/18/2005 – 8:15 pm

AppleScript is the glue that makes applications work together in ways the developers forgot to implement

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