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| Services
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As is mentioned on the Refinements page of the Mac OS X pages at Apple.com: http://www.apple.com/macosx/refinements/
Services are contextual, configurable, AND customizable. You can create your...
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| Posted by Sal, on Aug 17, 2009 at 08:34 AM, in macOS |
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| MacSpeech
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MacSpeech Dictate is an application for voice command and dictation. It's available at macspeech.com.
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| Posted by Sal, on Feb 17, 2009 at 09:48 PM, in macOS |
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| Caption Palette
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Were you using MacSpeech Dictate? The palette is designed to be controlled using voice dictation using Dictate. Using your voice, you can rate images as well as add captions.
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| Posted by Sal, on Feb 16, 2009 at 07:28 PM, in macOS |
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| Use AppleScript
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You can write an AppleScript script to enable/disable the right mouse click. Explanations about scripting the System Preferences using UI Scripting are on this page...
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| Posted by Sal, on Jan 19, 2009 at 11:22 PM, in macOS |
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| Automator Help
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Try going to AUTOMATOR.US (http://automator.us) and watching the movies. There's a tutorial there for just what you are asking about.
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| Posted by Sal, on Apr 19, 2008 at 12:33 PM, in macOS |
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| Full Screen Flow View
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On a related note, Apple has posted a free one-click script that zooms the frontmost Finder window to fill the screen while displaying in Flow View. One more click and the window returns to normal...
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| Posted by Sal, on Apr 19, 2008 at 11:16 AM, in macOS |
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| ARD and Classrooms
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BTW, the automation support built-into Apple Remote Desktop can be very useful for teachers who don't have the time to learn or master the program. Check out the Teacher's Helpers workflows at ...
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| Posted by Sal, on Apr 19, 2008 at 11:07 AM, in macOS |
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| Making Finder File Links
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Simple AppleScript example:
tell application "Finder"
make new internet location file to "file://localhost/Applications/Utilities/" at home with properties {name:"Open Utilities"}
reveal...
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| Posted by Sal, on Mar 10, 2008 at 03:18 AM, in macOS |
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| Finder and Paths
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Command-Shift-G doesn't work?
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| Posted by Sal, on Dec 30, 2007 at 10:24 AM, in macOS |
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| AppleScript in Leopard
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AppleScript in Leopard is a major advance forward. Check out AppleScript: The Language of Automation (http://www.apple.com/applescript) for details and examples.
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| Posted by Sal, on Dec 29, 2007 at 01:42 AM, in macOS |
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| Automation
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What kind of things do most users want to do?
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| Posted by Sal, on Dec 29, 2007 at 01:38 AM, in macOS |
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| Delimiters
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This works fine for me in 10.5.1:
set this_string to "Sal Sue Bob Carl"
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to " "
set these_names to every text item of this_string
set AppleScript's text...
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| Posted by Sal, on Nov 23, 2007 at 11:59 PM, in macOS |
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| AppleScript
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Leopard is a big release for AppleScript! Check out www.apple.com/AppleScript for details. It is the native scripting language of Mac OS X and will continue to be advanced and improved. Thanks, Sal
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| Posted by Sal, on Nov 19, 2007 at 05:52 PM, in macOS |
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| "Watch" for Events
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Try this:
<http://prefabsoftware.com/uibrowser/>
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| Posted by Sal, on Nov 19, 2007 at 02:39 AM, in macOS |
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| Automator Info
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FYI guys, there's a tutorial on how to rename on the AUTOMATOR.US website. Also contains a lot more information on Automator and free downloads. Check out AUTOMATOR.TV for videos. Enjoy!
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| Posted by Sal, on Jul 5, 2007 at 12:35 AM, in macOS |
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| I don't believe you can use AppleScript to...
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I don't believe you can use AppleScript to generate Smart Albums in iPhoto. The term "Smart" does not appear anywhere in its scripting dictionary.
But, here's how you would make new albums from a...
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| Posted by Sal, on May 28, 2006 at 08:16 PM, in Applications |
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| Use the Pad Images Action
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The Pad Images action can be used to scale and resize the images to widescreen dimensions. It is found in the Preview action library.
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| Posted by Sal, on Apr 23, 2006 at 08:22 PM, in macOS |
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| Script to Remove Name
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Thank you to BareBones for putting AppleScript support into TextWrangler!
1) Before using this script, launch TextWrangler and in Preferences > Text Files: Opening, deselect the Translate Line...
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| Posted by Sal, on Mar 26, 2006 at 09:30 AM, in macOS |
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| Contextual Menu
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So you want the Finder contextual menu to display saved Automator workflows at the bottom, without the Automator sub-menu?
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| Posted by Sal, on Mar 26, 2006 at 08:35 AM, in macOS |
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| While it is understandable that direct plug,...
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While it is understandable that direct plug, shoot, and import into Aperture is preferable, tehtered shooting using the Aperture Hot Folder script is not that big of a deal -- is it? The results are...
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| Posted by Sal, on Mar 1, 2006 at 12:10 AM, in Applications |
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| Automator Info
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Automator info, actions, and workflows:
http://automator.us
http://www.automatorworld.com/
http://automatoractions.com/
http://homepage.mac.com/jkevinwolfe/otto/
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| Posted by Sal, on Feb 19, 2006 at 09:54 AM, in Applications |
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| Learn Automator
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To get up to speed with Automator quickly and esialy, visit: <http://automator.us>, Take the quick tour and try a couple of the example workflows.
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| Posted by Sal, on Jan 15, 2006 at 04:15 AM, in Applications |
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| Here's the AppleScript code for hiding all apps...
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Here's the AppleScript code for hiding all apps except the one in the foreground:
tell application "System Events"
set visible of (every process whose visible is true and frontmost is false) to...
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| Posted by Sal, on Jul 18, 2004 at 02:19 AM, in macOS |
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| Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Applescript Help
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Here's an example Folder Action script for attaching to the Volumes folder to check to see if a particular drive is mounted. Save the Folder Action script to the Library > Scripts > Folder Actions...
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| Posted by Sal, on May 25, 2004 at 08:17 PM, in macOS |
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| Re: finder change all folders to be viewed as list
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Run this script and choose the parent folder. Every folder within the entire hierarchy of the parent folder will be set to display in list view:
set this_folder to choose folder
tell application...
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| Posted by Sal, on Feb 27, 2004 at 07:20 PM, in macOS |
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| This thread is why we use Macs.
Thanks to...
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This thread is why we use Macs.
Thanks to Stone for continuing to contribute to the AppleScript community.
Thanks to MacNN for providing a place to swap ideas and information.
And thanks to...
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| Posted by Sal, on Feb 27, 2004 at 07:13 PM, in macOS |
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| set the URL_list to {"http://www.apple.com",...
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set the URL_list to {"http://www.apple.com", "http://www.macnn.com", "http://www.adobe.com"}
tell application "Finder"
repeat with i from 1 to the count of the URL_list
set this_URL to item i...
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| Posted by Sal, on Feb 18, 2004 at 11:34 PM, in macOS |
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| FYI, using AppleScript:
tell application...
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FYI, using AppleScript:
tell application "Finder"
set the source_folder to (choose folder with prompt "Folder containing items:")
set the destination_folder to (choose folder with prompt...
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| Posted by Sal, on Feb 7, 2004 at 04:15 AM, in macOS |
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| Re: iPhoto: removing pictures from album and library.
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Delete Album and Contents - This script will remove a chosen album and the images it contains from the iPhoto library. Use this script carefully as its actions cannot be undone.
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| Posted by Sal, on Feb 2, 2004 at 03:43 AM, in macOS |
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| If you want a script that syncs and then waits...
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If you want a script that syncs and then waits for the sync to be done and quit iSync, add an Idle Handler to the script and save it as an application with the Stay Open option checked, as in this...
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| Posted by Sal, on Jan 21, 2004 at 07:01 PM, in macOS |
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| Re: auto isync
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If you want to automatically sync when you log in, save this script as an application and add it to your login items:
tell application "iSync"
if syncing is false then synchronize
end tell
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| Posted by Sal, on Jan 12, 2004 at 11:29 PM, in macOS |
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| Just and FYI, but apparently many people don't...
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Just and FYI, but apparently many people don't realize that you can run Shell and Perl scripts from the system-wide Script Menu utility:
Applications > AppleScript
Just place the text file...
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| Posted by Sal, on Jan 1, 2004 at 09:25 AM, in macOS |
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| If you turn on Remote Apple Events and have a...
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If you turn on Remote Apple Events and have a user account on the target computer with permission to send Apple Events, you can control iTunes across the Internet!
Substitute the IP address of the...
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| Posted by Sal, on Dec 13, 2003 at 06:29 AM, in macOS |
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| http://www.apple.com/applescript/folderactions/ ...
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http://www.apple.com/applescript/folderactions/
property label_index : 0
on adding folder items to this_folder after receiving these_items
set label_index to label_index + 1
if label_index...
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| Posted by Sal, on Dec 10, 2003 at 02:07 PM, in macOS |
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| Although you may not be able change the format of...
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Although you may not be able change the format of the screen capture files, you can use the new Image Events architecture in Mac OS X 10.3 to convert the pdf file to jpeg with the following droplet...
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| Posted by Sal, on Nov 16, 2003 at 04:48 PM, in macOS |
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| Just an FYI.
You can set the view method of...
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Just an FYI.
You can set the view method of every folder window of a directory�s hierarchy with this simple script:
tell application "Finder"
close every window
set the current view of the...
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| Posted by Sal, on Nov 15, 2003 at 11:20 AM, in macOS |
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| I made an important change to the script. I used...
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I made an important change to the script. I used the "quoted form" property when creating the POSIX paths. This property does encoding and places single quotes around the path string. This prevents...
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| Posted by Sal, on Nov 15, 2003 at 02:37 AM, in macOS |
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| I'm not sure about the correct syntax of the...
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I'm not sure about the correct syntax of the shell command, but the structure of the script should be something like this.
NOTE:
1) create a "Done" folder in the attached folder and either move...
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| Posted by Sal, on Nov 14, 2003 at 11:32 AM, in macOS |
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| Just an FYI, with iCal 1.5.1 you can now run...
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Just an FYI, with iCal 1.5.1 you can now run AppleScripts scripts as the action for timed events!
For complete details, go here:
http://www.apple.com/applescript/ical/
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| Posted by Sal, on Nov 10, 2003 at 09:10 PM, in macOS |
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| Re: Simple AppleScript Program
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Here you go. Save this script as an application with the Stay Open option checked.
It assumes that Internet Explorer is your default browser.
on idle
ignoring application responses
open...
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| Posted by Sal, on Nov 10, 2003 at 07:46 PM, in macOS |
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| Something like this. Note that you must move the...
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Something like this. Note that you must move the added items to another folder to keep the folder action from being triggered again when the item is compressed.
on adding folder items to...
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| Posted by Sal, on Nov 5, 2003 at 02:45 PM, in macOS |
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| Re: Folder Actions help
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Start here:
http://www.apple.com/applescript/folderactions/
Your folder action script will most likely use the "do shell" command to archive items with the "compress" command or something...
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| Posted by Sal, on Nov 5, 2003 at 02:36 PM, in macOS |
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| Good work! A couple things:
1) use the...
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Good work! A couple things:
1) use the generic term "home" instead of hard-coding the path
2) the logic was a bit off in the repeat and it was attempting to move the entire group of items each...
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| Posted by Sal, on Nov 3, 2003 at 01:55 PM, in macOS |
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| Re: Folder Actions
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Mac OS X does not currently support folder badging in the Finder so you'll have to add your own custom icon to identify attached folders.
Glad you found the included scripts useful. More info at: ...
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| Posted by Sal, on Nov 1, 2003 at 04:10 AM, in macOS |
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| Full details here:
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Full details here:
www.apple.com/applescript/scripteditor/12.html (http://www.apple.com/applescript/scripteditor/12.html)
URL Protocol Support in the new Script Editor solves the problem of...
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| Posted by Sal, on Oct 27, 2003 at 12:21 AM, in macOS |
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| AppleScript in Panther is one of the most...
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AppleScript in Panther is one of the most significant releases of the last decade.
For an overview of the big features:
www.apple.com/applescript/macosx/...
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| Posted by Sal, on Oct 26, 2003 at 11:23 PM, in macOS |
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