AppleScript - Master It #2 - Dialog Boxes

Hey everyone,

Display dialog

A dialog box is basically just a box which displays some text with customizable buttons and possibly a text input box as shown in the image above.
To bring it up use the display dialog command. Type -


Display dialog "Text comes here"

Now compile and run it.

Display dialog with Text Field

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Applescript - Master It #1

This is the first in a series of blog posts that I will be writing about Applescript. Applescript is basically just a very easy automation language just for mac. With it you can make your very own Applications and automation programs. It is similar to English and the commands are fairly basic. So to start open applescript...

Applescript Editor

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Make Your Mac Speak

Make your Mac speak to you in awesome voices. Open TextEdit or any other text editor. Type whatever you want it to say. Select that text. Now right-click, select speech and click start speaking. Your mac will now speak the text to you.

- Shiv Sakhuja ( www.controlyourmac.com )

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Navigation With the Keyboard - Become an Expert

Generally, when I use a mac, it's on very rare occassions that I reach out to hold the mouse. In fact, sometimes when the battery of the magic mouse dies, I don't bother replacing them for quite a while. Mostly everything I do, I use the keyboard and this habit of mine increases my speed on the mac exponentially.
One of the few things we have to use our mouse for is navigating. Either to click on the spotlight button on the top right, to open a new finder window, to open a folder, to open a file, etc. Some easy tricks to remember and try and make a habit are -

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Shift Dock's Position with a Single Click!

Shift the position of your Dock to bottom, left or right end of your screen with a simple click. Simply put your mouse on the seperator ( shown in the image above ) and click and drag it to the left, right or to the bottom while pressing option+shift.

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RSS feed as a Screensaver ?!

What's an RSS feed, you might ask. Basically, an RSS feed is a live update of any updating material on the web such as a blog. For example, mine's here - http://controlyourmac.blogspot.com/rss.xml. Well, you can have an RSS feed of anything you like as YOUR screensaver!

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Top Tip for iTunes - Show Duplicates

Think you might have too many duplicate songs in iTunes ? Clean it up with a couple of clicks.
Open iTunes. Click on File in the menubar. Now click on "Display Duplicates". Now just select and delete the duplicates.

- Shiv (CYM)

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The Mac App Store - Now Live with 1000+ Apps

The mac app store is now live, with  a 1000 apps and counting. To install it simply update your computer to the latest software update for Snow Leopard by clicking on the apple icon (top left corner of menu bar), clicking "Software Update" and then downloading the latest update for Mac OS X. Hopefully, the app count on this store too will increase rapidly like in the iPhone App Store. The app store brought about another couple of nice touches. For example, now when Mac doesn't know what application to use to open files with a particular extension, it also gives the option to find an app in the App Store. Most of the apps in the app store are small files and download in a couple of seconds. Another nice touch to the app store is what happens when you click on download - the app's icon flies into the dock and starts downloading with a progress bar. And now only time will determine the success of the app store.

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