Apple Scripts are actions (or sets of actions) that can be launched from almost all of your Mac’s (bundled) Apple applications.
These scripts are time saving solutions especially for repetitive actions.
And here’s an example with iTunes and some of the best Apple Scripts (to me).
First thing to do, check if you do have the scripts folders for iTunes, the best way to make sure you do have it is to run iTunes and take a look at the menu bar, it should looks like this:
The Apple Scripts logo is the one you see before “help”.
If you don’t see it, just go to your Home Folder:Library:iTunes and create a folder and name it “Scripts”:
To find my Top 3 iTunes Scripts, please make the jump. Read the rest of this entry »
LeopardAssist enables you to install Leopard on any Power Mac G4; the program cheats with Leopard’s installer making him think the Mac you’re installing from OS X is faster than it really is.
Firefox developers improved once again Java Scripts execution’s speed on the Firefox Nightly build (beta) 3.1, and here are the results based on a benchmarking made on a MacBook Pro via Sunspider:
Apollo is like Adium for iPhone, I missed this superb multi clients IM application for the iPhone, and finally it is back thanks to the 4th version of Installer!
To install you have to have a jailbroken iPhone, then follow these easy instructions:
Too lazy to write some words, or just want to be sure of its spelling, here’s a trick on how to get a list of words that start with the few letters you typed.
iChat: as you type the first letters of a word, press Escape (without moving the mouse cursor) and you’ll see this list:
On any other Mac OS X application, the same trick works with F5 (Mail in the image below):
If there are a lot of words in the list, it will only shows the first 100 results, sorted alphabetically. The results come from Mac OS X’s built-in dictionary.
The back up process can be a pain for iPhone users who have a lot of applications installed on their device.
If you’re impatient (or bored of the backup process) to synchronize only your iPhone and try to cancel the backup, the iPhone won’t sync, since it makes the backup before it synchronizes your datas. Worst, according to a blogger:
The other problem is that if you ever cancel a backup (by clicking the ‘x’ next to the progress bar), it apparently corrupts the existing backup — so if you do then go to restore your iPhone, the backup won’t be usable.
The solution is a command line to type from the Terminal; it will prevent your iPhone from backing up the datas and directly sync. Prior to do this be sure iTunes is closed. Read the rest of this entry »
