11 posts tagged ‘AppleScript’
Retiring Script Debugger
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Mark Alldritt and Shane Stanley: January 2025 marks Script Debugger’s 30th anniversary. It’s been a very long run for a two-person effort. Script Debugger began as a Classic MacOS product, survived Apple’s near-death experience, transitioned to macOS X and migrated across 4 CPU processor types. We are so grateful for the support we’ve received over […]
Cascable Studio Rejected From the App Store
Daniel Kennett: I’ve been shipping apps to the App Store for well over fifteen years now, and although there are App Review horror stories aplenty, I’ve always hoped I’d never be in a position to write one myself.[…]What you just scrolled past was the history of my (eventually successful) attempt to get the new Mac […]
NetNewsWire 6.1.6
Brent Simmons (release notes): The theme of this release is using less bandwidth (and, as a consequence, less battery). It fixes a conditional GET issue and it now pays attention to Cache-Control response headers and 429 response codes. It also fixes an AppleScript bug I reported. Previously: ReadKit 3.3 News Explorer 2.0 NetNewsWire and Conditional […]
Firefox at 20
Kevin Purdy (Hacker News): Back in June 2002, Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth was experiencing space for the first time, the Department of Justice’s antitrust case against Microsoft was reaching its final arguments, and Adam Price, using what was then called Mozilla on a Mac, had an issue with persistent tooltips.That relic is no more, as […]
The Sad State of Mac Calendar Scripting
AppleScript support with popular Mac calendar apps is surprisingly limited. With Apple Mail, it’s easy to write a script that operates on the selected e-mail messages, and I’ve written many such scripts. I’d like to do this same with calendar events. For example, sometimes I want to make the same change to one of the […]
SpamSieve 3.0.3
SpamSieve 3.0.3 is another maintenance update. The main focus is working around various cases where Apple Mail doesn’t behave properly, resulting in hangs or messages not being filtered or trained. Some interesting bugs were: Some customers were seeing a crash when SpamSieve updated its Dock icon badging. It turns out that setting NSApplication.applicationIconImage will throw […]
Opening URLs in Private Safari Windows
Jeff Johnson: The problem with using both private and public windows is that when I open a URL in Safari from another app, such as Mail app, or such as my own Link Unshortener, which I use as my default web browser, I can’t control where exactly the URL opens. If the frontmost Safari window […]
Filing Mail Messages on Sonoma Using the Keyboard
Adam Tow: As I continue to investigate how to bring MsgFiler to macOS Sonoma, here’s a tip from a user that allows you to file messages via the keyboard on Sonoma. It also works on previous versions of macOS dating back to 2011.Select a message to fileClick on the Help menu or press Command-Shift-/Type in […]