Sep 08
2011

Thanks to a comment from Evaryont on the original SMS from the command line with Google Voice post, a problem that was causing Error 500s in the script has been solved.

Jul 02
2011

A reader named Tony left a comment on my Duplicating Safari browsing sessions post, recommending that I try out appscript for my AppleScript bridging needs. I frequently use system calls to osascript to do this, and I’ve shied away from scripting bridges in the past because they make things much harder to share and distribute. I thought I’d give it a try, though.

Mar 07
2011

After my epic three-part post on Saturday, I spent the rest of the weekend doing more “useful” things. Now it’s Sunday night (Monday morning, I think), and I’ve got some kind of minor food poisoning which is currently keeping me awake. Thus a “hey, cool trick” post.

I actually already own an app which can do this to some extent, and I know there are more available…

Feb 20
2011

I’ve been flirting with a plain-text to-do system again. The biggest problem for me is that a plain text system opens up so many possibilities for fiddling and scripting. I always end up fiddling more than working when I try it. I don’t see any reason this time would be different, but it’s Sunday and I have some extra time on my hands after being snowed in today. So I’m fiddling.

Feb 06
2011

I know, I said I was done with the Lorem Ipsum generators. Then Dr. Drang responded with a brilliant solution which doesn’t require Internet access to generate some beautiful dummy text. I set it up and ran it myself, and loved the results. Then I found myself wanting to expand it to do more, such as multiple paragraphs, list items and other things I use regularly when making…

Nov 19
2010

I needed a script send an SMS today, and I found a very handy post at sudocode to send one via Google Voice, using PHP. I wanted to make it a little more command-line-friendly, so I rewrote it (ham-handedly) in Ruby and added some options parsing to it. It’s designed for—and only tested on—OS X, but may work fine elsewhere.

Oct 18
2010

A quick script in response to Donald’s query on my TextExpander Experiments post. He wanted to know if I could make the bit​.ly script—which expands to a bit.ly-shortened version of a url in the clipboard—work with an authenticated account, presumably for click tracking. Well, sure! Just adjust the script below to contain your bit​.ly username and your API key (in lines 6 &…