Applescript to Populate Address Book with Jabber-MSN Contact Info

Thursday, May 1st, 2008 Posted in Tips | 2 Comments »

I recently setup a Jabber account on my server and started to use the MSN transport on it to access my MSN account. Thus I am now able to use the fantastic iChat as my only IM client (since iChat ...

Applescript to Duplicate Terminal Tab

Saturday, April 12th, 2008 Posted in Tips | No Comments »

From my personal experience, I realized that I'd always need at least two terminal tabs whenever I do any Rails development: one to run the server ($ ./script/server) and one to do the rest of the rails stuff (generate things, ...

Email News Item from NetNewsWire with Mail.app [Updated Jan/17/2008]

Thursday, January 10th, 2008 Posted in Tips | No Comments »

One the the feature that's missing from NetNewsWire (as of v3.1b38) is the ability to email someone an article. The following Applescript does just that: tell application "NetNewsWire" set articleTitle to (title of selectedHeadline) as string ...

Applescript to Sync iPhone/iPod

Thursday, October 4th, 2007 Posted in Tips | No Comments »

Unless I am mistaken but I don't think iTunes would automatic perform "Sync" operation while the iPhone/iPod is docked. It would perform a sync operation the moment a iPhone/iPod is docked, but if one changes a entry in the address ...

Applescript to Restart Finder and Dock

Tuesday, September 25th, 2007 Posted in Tips | No Comments »

Just a little script to restart the Finder and Dock ... do shell script "killall Finder && open /System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app" tell application "Dock" to quit