Posts Tagged ‘macintosh’
**[Question](http://nslog.com/archives/2005/09/25/qotd_beta_testing.php): Have you ever beta tested any software (in an official capacity, not by warezing an early build of Photoshop 17 or something)?** Yes, I’ve beta tested quite a few different pieces of software: * [Quicken](http://intuit.com/) for two years (Trinity and Dakota). I was even named one of the top beta testers, receiving an [Amazon](http://amazon.com) […]
Buried within all of the hype of the ROKR and nano, are a couple of new features in the recently release of iTunes that are actually useful: * Ability to show album art of the song that is now playing. * Folders of playlist (which also act like mega-playlists). My favorite feature in the release […]
When writing [my AppleScripts](http://applescript.plaidcow.net/) I try to allow for enough flexibility for each user to set the script up to his/her liking, without requiring that all of the questions be answered each time the action is performed. In other words: saved preferences. In my latest scripts to be updated ([Rename Files][] and [Remove Missing Tracks][]), […]
I was trying to install an un-named Safari add-on and found that the installer required administrator access, so I sent the company an email and asked them why. The reply came back in less than a day: > [Our program’s] components are installed at the system level, rather than the user level. Therefore, admin privileges […]
Two years ago I was a beta tester for Quicken 2004 (code-named Dakota). That was the second year I was a beta tester, and they haven’t asked me back since. Perhaps it was because I reported the same bugs the second year as the first. Perhaps it was because I [wasn’t enamored][2] with their product. […]
Since the installation of Panther a year and a half ago, I have been running my default account as a non-administrator account, which tends to cause interesting conflicts. Like this conundrum. An early page in the installer notes that if I wish to install this software for all users, then I will need the administrator […]
A while back I got an email from someone who was having trouble running one of [my scripts][PCS] and also couldn’t open it in Script Editor. Though I can’t find the original email, I think I realize why: the Script Editor is doing an exhaustive search (probably across the network in his case) for an […]
This simple script gives away one of the major problems with [AppleScript](http://www.apple.com/applescript/): sometimes it just doesn’t work. This script gives no errors, but does not set the subject of the message: tell application "Mail" set theMsg to item 1 of (the selection as list) set subject of theMsg to "Hello" set theSubject to subject of […]
Along with many other people, I was standing in line on Friday to try out the new version of the operating system from Apple. Now, after a clean disk install, I am trying to get back to speed with everything, installing all of those needed applications. Thi sis my journey. Until I get the introduction […]
Due to Microsoft Entourage’s poor implementation of a script I wrote, I ended up with over 200 Categories named “Untitled”. Since the GUI will only let you delete one category at a time, I came up with an AppleScript solution: tell application “Microsoft Entourage” set theCategories to every category repeat with theCat in theCategories if […]