Here’s a simple AppleScript that exports all of the email addresses in your Mac OS X address book as a comma-separated list: tell application “Address Book” set emailList to {} set peopleCount to (count every person) repeat with i from 1 to peopleCount set emailList to emailList & (get value of every email of person …
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Broken: Alsoft’s online ordering system
Alsoft is one of my favourite companies. DiskWarrior is the best Mac OS X disk repair utility, hands down. Well, well worth its price. As soon as I found out DiskWarrior 4 had been released, I immediately ordered the upgrade, without even finishing the article. This was around December 11. So, what’s broken? First, Alsoft’s …
My Toronto Star crossword puzzle fetcher
On weekday afternoons, the Toronto Star publishes an eight-page PDF edition, “Star PM.” I download this for one reason: the free crossword puzzle. But sometimes I forget to download this, and since there’s no archive, I lose the opportunity to do that day’s crossword. So I wrote a script to automatically fetch today’s Star PM …
How to fix Safari if it can’t view plugin content
For a while, I haven’t been able to view plugin content (Flash, QuickTime, etc.) in Safari. I decided to do some quick regression to determine the source of the problem. First, I viewed the pages in another browser, Camino, and they appeared correctly. So my plugins themselves were not corrupt. Next, I logged in as …
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Free Macworld Expo admission
Free admission to Macworld Expo in San Francisco, January 9-12. Use priority code E-SFVA.
great deal on SubEthaEdit
Travis tipped me off to a great deal on SubEthaEdit from the CodingMonkeys. There’s something called BLOGZOT 2.0 on MacZOT.com, where they give away software based on the number of people who blog about it (up to $105,000). I just picked up a copy of SubEthaEdit for $6.95. Blog about it/buy now/buy before the end …
blowing up a g4
so some guy got people to donate money so he could buy a G5 and blew up his G4. too funny.
free music from verve
I found a card at SXSW for a free music sampler from Verve. They want you to go to verveforecast.com/sxsw, then register, thenenter in the “download code” of vforecastsxsw. The music sampler (Jamie Cullum, Brazilian Girls, Jackie Greene, Rhett Miller, Susan Tedeschi, Teddy Thompson) comes in four formats, all of which are annoying: WMA, zip …
My favourite Tiger feature
The title here is a bit misleading. My favourite Tiger feature really is Spotlight. But I want to talk about something really cool that nobody is talking about: kABWithinIntervalAroundTodayYearless kABWhat?
Windows 2006 = Mac OS 2003?
Re-Introducing the Real Windows Vista.