Project: applescript


Just starting this one

One of the things I am fasinated with is programming (mostly because I am lousy at it) In steps AppleScript, something I am sad to say I am just learning about. It really looks like a great tool for controlling something that we spend hours on every day with a fairly straight forward language. I am still in the process of reading and playing around with it. I have used some scripts to automate DVD burning for iTunes that were written and graciously given out for everybody to use. It is an incredible thing to start the process and watch your computer work without any more input from you! I can already say with my limited experience that it's pretty easy to write very simple scripts and very hard to write complex ones. As with most things you get out of it what you put into it. Anytime people can make there living doing something it pretty much means its way more complex than it lets on. None of this should discourage you from getting a book and going for it though, you can automate a lot of stuff that you do on your computer everyday. There are also loads of scripts on the web that you can put to use today.

Places To Get Great Script

Here are some great web sites to get you started learning and using AppleScript, Automator and Services. Don't forget about Services, in Snow Leopard services are greatly imporoved and tie right in with automator and applescript. Learning some of this will make your computer work much easier and faster.