Negative Space: Astounding Scripts
- 42 Astounding Scripts is live!
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Ready to get your retro on? Type in programs for your Macintosh and make it play music, roll dice, and talk to you? Customize your services menu? 42 Astoundingly Useful Scripts and Automations for the Macintosh is the book for you!
- 42 Astoundingly Useful Scripts and Automations for the Macintosh
- MacOS uses Perl, Python, AppleScript, and Automator and you can write scripts in all of these. Build a talking alarm. Roll dice. Preflight your social media comments. Play music and create ASCII art. Get your retro on and bring your Macintosh into the world of tomorrow with 42 Astoundingly Useful Scripts and Automations for the Macintosh!
- About Astounding Scripts
- Because I can!
- Catalina: iTunes Library XML
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What does Catalina mean for 42 Astounding Scripts?
- Create your own ASCII art palettes with densitySort
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You can create your own ASCII art palettes from special (fixed pitch) fonts and specific collections of characters, using the densitySort script here.
- Let mortal tongues awake
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Samuel Francis Smith’s America—more commonly known as “My Country, ’Tis of Thee”— is short, direct, and a wonderful hymn to God as the soul of liberty. It’s a perfect hymn for the Fourth of July. It’s also very easy to play using the piano script from 42 Astounding Scripts.
- Play music faster in the Music App
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If you enjoy Marvin and the Chipmunks, you’ll love this AppleScript.
- Smashwords Post-Christmas Sale
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Smashwords is having a sale starting Christmas day, and both Astounding Scripts and The Dream of Poor Bazin are 75% off.
- Using version control with AppleScripts
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AppleScripts aren’t stored as text, which makes it impossible to track changes in AppleScript files using version control software such as Mercurial or Git.
