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Beta Testers Aplenty
Thanks for the great response to my call for beta testers yesterday. I've got a great pool of testers and, sorry to say, will be unable to accept any more.
Beta Testers Wanted
I'm looking for a few beta testers for a new application I'm working on. Potential testers must be Mac OS 10.4 or better/iTunes 6 or better users, have access to all privileges of computers on the local subnet (Moms/Dads with home networks are ideal), and must not be afraid of getting their hands dirty with some safe and minimal poking around in the computer. If you are interested, get in touch with me by email. My email address is around here somewhere.
Google Reader Problems
Several people who use Google Reader to view my RSS feeds had complained that links embedded in articles were not rendering correctly. I think I have fixed this. Google Reader is not as forgiving as some other new readers so I had to be much more particular about how certain characters were translated. If you use Google Reader, try deleting and then re-adding my feed links and let me know if you get the same nice results I do.
FWIW, I've Started A Tumblelog
Because I don't think it's appropriate to post things I'm interested in at this site which fall outside the Venn diagram of iTunes and AppleScript, I've started a tumblelog with Tumblr. This is the link to the browser version, and this is the link to its RSS feed. Anything that strikes my fancy (such as berating myself for using the phrase "strikes my fancy") could appear there. I probably should have posted this item there, for example, but then how would you know that I had posted it?
My Web Host Wants You To Know...
As part of our ongoing efforts to improve our hosting platform, we will be performing scheduled quarterly server maintenance between 12:00am midnight and 8:00am EDT on Sunday, March 25, 2007. During this time, your Web site may be inaccessible.
So don't expect mission-critical iTunes AppleScripts to be available this coming Sunday (or whenever; EDT is -4 from GMT currently). I will be asleep when this is going on. Please shut off the lights when you're done.
Featured at Lifehacker
Adam Pash wrote up a nice "Hack Attack" article at Lifehacker which features his 13 favorite AppleScripts for iTunes from Our Little Site. Much obliged, Adam!
How I Do It
I frequently get emails asking how I go about displaying the "Doug's Listening To..." thing, whereby I display the song, iTunes Store link, album art, and lyrics search for the song I'm currently playing. I wish it were easy, I wish I could make it available. But for reasons described here it just would be too much. Maybe you have some ideas?
Why We Love Mac OS X Hints
Rob Griffiths, Mac OS X Hints' progenitor, recently posted a neat weblog entry at Macworld about downloading some cool free Apple fonts from the Apple iTunes AppleScripts download page. (Fonts from an AppleScripts download page?! Read Rob's article to grok.) In the course of the article, Rob casually mentions This Little Site Of Mine, and I'm much obliged.
Then, today, he's posted a hint about the usability of the new format of Google's image search results page. For those of you who may use Find Album Artwork with Google and are frustrated with the results, the hint is worth a look. Spoiler alert: get yourself SafariStand; I love that thing!
Here's What We're Mixing This Weekend
Will The Circle Be Unbroken, Muswell Hillbillies, Exile on Main Street.
Semi-Annual Advisements
A new year, same old reminders (clip 'n' save):
- 1. AppleScripts are for Macintosh computers only.
- 2. AppleScripts are for Macintosh computers only.
- 3. AppleScripts are for Macintosh computers only.
- 4. Do not bookmark scripts from your address bar. To spread the word about a particular script, right-click or Control-click its green "link to this entry" button and choose your option.
- 5. iPod AppleScripts will not work if your iPod is formatted for Windows.
- 6. The 30 Most Recent AppleScript postings are available via this RSS feed.
- 7. Before emailing me, check the FAQ.
- 8. Yes, I am very familiar with the other Douglas Adams (and my poor old elderly mother curses him because I have had to use the diminutive "Doug" in order to avoid the obvious; best joke: at bookstores I tell salespeople my name used to be Emily Bronte but I had to change it because...).
- 9. I do not much respond to custom script-writing requests. However, if you have an interesting idea, I'm all ears.
- 10. I think it's great that you have modified scripts from this site for your own use! BUT PLEASE, unless you have created something unique, do not send me script mods. They probably won't get posted.
Thanks for making this site a popular stop on the internet. And thank you very much for any monetary donations you have made, I really appreciate it, and it makes it easier for me to take the time to work on it. Six years, 417 scripts, and counting!
