Negative Space: macOS
- 42 Astounding Scripts, Catalina edition
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I’ve updated 42 Astounding Scripts for Catalina, and added “one more thing”.
- Adding parenthetical asides to photograph titles on macOS
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Use Applescript to append a parenthetical to the titles of all selected photographs in Photos on macOS.
- Apple software stops connecting to the Internet; Firefox continues fine
- Starting in the last couple of days, I’ve been having an odd problem with some software being unable to connect to the Internet. They keep telling me I have no internet connection. The problem apps all seem to be Apple apps: Safari, iTunes, Software Update, Mail. But Firefox and the command line connect fine. Restarting mDNSResponder appears to (temporarily, I expect) fix the issue.
- AppleScript, Mail, and deleted messages
- OS X Mail appears to keep trashed messages in their previous folder for a while, resulting in “ghost messages” when you try to get messages from a mailbox using AppleScript.
- Caption this! Add captions to image files
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Need a quick caption for an image? This command-line script uses Swift to tack a caption above, below, or right on top of, any image macOS understands.
- Catalina vs. Mojave for Scripters
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More detail about the issues I ran into updating the scripts from 42 Astounding Scripts for Catalina.
- Catalina: iTunes Library XML
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What does Catalina mean for 42 Astounding Scripts?
- Create universal files on Mac OS X
- When you install MySQL from the easy-to-install packages, you have to choose either x86_64 or i386 (64-bit or 32-bit). But on Leopard server, some applications need the 32-bit version and some need the 64-bit version. Here’s how you can combine them into a universal file without having to deal with recompilation.
- Maven: SQLite front end
- Cutedge has a SQLite3 front-end that almost works.
- Murky for Mercurial
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Murky makes a great front-end to Mercurial for personal projects, including not just programming projects, but CSS and HTML. Anything text-oriented and line-based.
- OS X Experiences
- A log of my experience installing OS X from the supposedly non-beta version 1.0.
- Using appscript with Apple Mail to get emails and attachments
- Python and appscript can be used to get email messages out of Apple’s OS X Mail client, and even to get and save attachments.
More Information
- HyperCardPreview
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“This application displays HyperCard stacks in Mac OS X… it does not edit them, it does not execute them… The look is very close to the original one, with bitmap fonts, old-style scrollers, aliasing. In the Home stacks the look is accurate to the pixel, as in most Apple stacks, but less so if there are colors, and not at all if there are XCMDs.”
- 42 Astoundingly Useful Scripts and Automations for the Macintosh (ebook)
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If you have a Macintosh and you want to get your retro on, take a look at 42 Astoundingly Useful Scripts and Automations for the Macintosh. These modern scripts will help you work faster and more reliably, and inspire your own custom scripts for your own workflow. (Jerry Stratton)
- 42 Astoundingly Useful Scripts and Automations for the Macintosh (ebook)
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If you have a Macintosh and you want to get your retro on, take a look at 42 Astoundingly Useful Scripts and Automations for the Macintosh. These modern scripts will help you work faster and more reliably, and inspire your own custom scripts for your own workflow. (Jerry Stratton)
- 42 Astoundingly Useful Scripts and Automations for the Macintosh (ePub)
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If you have a Macintosh and you want to get your retro on, take a look at 42 Astoundingly Useful Scripts and Automations for the Macintosh. These modern scripts will help you work faster and more reliably, and inspire your own custom scripts for your own workflow. (Jerry Stratton)
