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Tuesday, July 08, 2008 --- 61 days ago http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/macuser/~3/329301542/automatically_change_ichat_s
 I've been messing around a lot lately with AppleScript. Why? Because I like being bossy and controlling, and what better way to flex my dictatorial muscle than by ordering my computer to perform various actions using blunt and non-negotiable commands without so much as a "please" or "thank you." To see what this programming prose can do, I began developing developing solutions to all the "I wish I could..."s in OS X that I've built up over the years. The first was just for fun: I wanted a way to automatically change my iChat away status, at a certain interval, to a random selection from a list of messages stored in a text file—one per line—on my Mac. So if I like using funny quotes as my away messages—which I do—instead of having to change it manually every time I'm bored of an old quote, I use an AppleScript to automatically change my status to a random quote every twenty minutes. Neat? Yes. Check after the jump for the AppleScript code, and a line-by-line analysis to help you understand how it works. Click to keep reading... Primary category: Tips Read More - Comments (0) Click to read the rest... Copyright Mac Publishing LLC. This feed is for personal non-commercial use only. Do not re-post. Contact webmaster@macworld.com if you see this on a web page. ... |
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