Replies with the latest weather forecast for any city or town in Australia, using reliable information from the Australian Bureau of Meteorology. On Mac OS X, it can even cope with having to use a web proxy with authentication! Best used as a Speakable Item, just say "Give me the weather forecast" and hear the reply. Australian Speakable Items users would also be interested in this tip I wrote.
Don't you wish you could make some of your entries in iCal's To Do list appear only after a certain date? For example, ever had an assignment due in four weeks' time but which was only possible or efficient to work on during the fortnight before? Event2ToDo is the solution! Using just iCal and this AppleScript, your To Do list really is your To Do list rather than an unhelpful mix of some current To Do items and some future To Do items.
Three droplets for Java developers. They
automate opening a new Terminal window, changing the current directory
and executing a command on the file.
Don't you wish AppleWorks 5 would display a word count for that essay you're writing, as you type? You can now with this! The current word count of the active document is shown in a window you place along-side your document. You can even enter the word count you're aiming for and have the percentage completion displayed!
Unfortunately AppleWorks 6 introduced some bugs and it crashes after a few word count updates. :-( Even my Sierpinski triangle demo doesn't work anymore.
Keeps your iChat status to the name of the current application you are using. Unlike other solutions, this is not a hack and all that's needed is this script and iChat AV.
A sort of window manager for Microsoft's Internet Explorer for Mac. All open windows can be saved into this application for easy re-opening later. Very useful if you end up looking at 20 websites at once and then you suddenly have to go. Multiple, independent sets of windows can be created by duplicating the application.
With this script (intended for OE's script menu) you can send emails with hyperlinks in their body. You create the links by using a special syntax in your message and then running this script on it before sending. The link text can be anything you want and the link address can too. This is very useful for when you want to include a link in your email but without drawing too much attention to it.
Aliases are fantastic in Mac OS but if you're deleting an original file, there's no way to tell whether there are aliases pointing to it or not. Find Dud Aliases finds every alias on your hard drive whose original no longer exists. You'll probably be surprised how many you'll find.
Drag files onto this droplet to have Sherlock show all files with the same creator code. This is most useful for finding all the documents and preference files created by an application which you now want to remove. I used to keep this next to my trash on the desktop.
A window-less AppleScript application which uses its file name to display the percentage between two dates you put in the script, eg. the beginning and end of holidays. It is designed to be placed on the desktop, right under the menu bar, so you see just the percent display without the icon.
An AppleScript application to quit and relaunch the Finder which was written in response to a buggy and poorly designed 1 MB program which does the same thing. Quitting the Finder is not a terribly useful thing to do, but it could be fun, it gives you a few extra MB of RAM, and you can rebuild the desktop without restarting by holding down Command and Option while the Finder is instructed to relaunch.
I suppose near everyone has one. Here's what you can find in mine: a Tic Tac Toe game, a cool "the computer is computing" display, a utility to find the tempo of your tapping, and a few basic screensavers including a great swimming ASCII fish (it even blows bubbles) which was inspired by my primary school's DOS-based library catalog.
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