Moo! The Musings of a Plaid Cow

A good long time ago, there was a screencast of what you could do with FastScripts. Unfortunately, the screencast didn’t do it justice. The problem with doing a screen cast for an application/script launcher is that it is highly dependent on the applications and scripts that you have available. And, for the most part, this is not a tool that does things, it allows you to do things. So what do I have set up? Here is a sampling:

System Level

• iTunes control - Prev (F9), Play/Stop (F10), Next (F11)
• Ping GrowlTunes (Cmd-F10) - Ping GrowlTunes to re-show the current playing track.

Finder

• New Named Folder (Cmd-Shift-N) - Will suggest a name for a new folder (based on the selection), then move all of the files to that new folder
• Rename Files (Cmd-Shift-R) - Open the selected files with R-name
• Rotate Images (Cmd-Opt-R) - Rotate the selected images (a dialog asks clockwise or counter-clockwise)
• Move Files Up (Cmd-Shift-U) - Move the selected files to the parent folder.
• Move to Filename Folders - Move the selected files to folders based on a portion of the name.
• New Document (Cmd-Opt-N) - Create a new document of a type selected from a dialog. (Like a right click in windows.)
• View as Preview (Cmd-Shift-J) - Change to view by icon w/ large icons & show preview.
• View by Icon (Arranged by Name) (Cmd-Shift-1) - Changes to view by icon, sorted by name
• Slideshow in GraphicConverter (Cmd-Shift-D) - View the current folder as a slideshow in GraphicConverter
• Open Terminal Here (Cmd-Shift-T) - Open a Terminal session with the directory set to the current folder

Mail

• Mark Read (Cmd-T) - Mark the selected messages as read
• Mark Unread (Cmd-Shift-T) - Mark the selected messages as unread

iTunes

• Rename Files (Cmd-Shift-R) - Rename the currently selected files (based on the tag data)
• Organize Files (Cmd-Shift-O) - Move the currently selected files (based on the tag data)

Safari

• Open Text as New Tab (Cmd-Opt-T) - Opens a new tab with the selected text as the location

This is all I can come up with off the top of my head…and these are just ones with keyboard shortcuts. There are plenty of others that are just in the menu.

Yes, I’m moving on up. And will no doubt hose something in the transition. So if you can’t access the site, come back in a couple of days.

The bug reporter for all of my AppleScripts is now online. You can view what is there without an account, but to post a new bug or comment on any of the ones there you will need to create an account.

In the tradition of Erik’s QoTD, I offer YouMoo!. It’s like the question of the day, but without the requirement that I think of a question each day. All readers are encouraged to post relevant banter in the comments or on your own weblog.

A new beta version of the Replace Text script for iTunes was finally released. Based on Pashua, it should have a better shelf life for users. Let me know if you want to become a beta tester.

The Moo! has finally changed to MovableType and the rest of the pages should be updated with a good style real soon. The formatting will definately be changing, but I hope that the URLs will not. The original blog is still available, for a limited time. Probably because I’m too lazy right now to create the forwarding pages (which I need to do for all of my pages that show up on Google that pointed to my ISP, before I got a dedicated domain host).

It’s time to get your Moo! on.

As with my work about once a year, I have realigned some of the categories since I realized that everything was ending up in “Random Thoughts.” I guess I should have made the unsorted bin the default for where everything went. And since I reorganized stuff, I probably broke some link that you had made. (If I actually broke links, please let me know. I can’t imagine that anyone is linking to my page.)

“Random Thoughts” is now just “My Life,” which should include only personal stuff.” On the Road” will contain all of the wonderful thoughts I have while driving around this country, but mainly about the license plates that people put on their cars. “Rants” is mainly about stupid people, “Well Said” about smart people. Not many things there yet.

I have added my concept of a ring banner in the navigation bar on the main blog page. I think it looks pretty good. Please let me know what you think.

The Yahoo! Groups suite is currently under some major reconstruction, and after a few files are put together, I should be ready to actually post the results. The main code base has been split into a library and interface sections. All of the UI is done outside of the main library code (which stores all of the data and does file input). The biggest improvement so far is the removal of the data structures from the AppleScript code. By using Unix utilities and the do shell script command, I was able to keep the data stored in a single place and no longer have to worry about keeping the multiple copies in sync, allowing for import/export, or viewing of the data through simplistic list dialogs. The whole thing is much better now.