Access OS X keychain from Terminal
At everyday scripting, you often need to access sensible information like passwords. A common practice is to just write them plain text into your script, but at least on a Mac, we can do better. OS X ships with a tool called keychain. It is a central database where tools can store sensitive information like [...]
Robust HTML parsing the Groovy way
With Groovy, it’s very easy to parse XML data and extract arbitrary information. This works great as long as the input data is well-formed, but you can’t always guarantee that in real-world scenarios. Think of extracting data from HTML pages. They are very often a mess when it comes to XML validity and that’s where [...]
Launchbar: Dialing phone numbers with Fritz!Box Part 2
This is a follow-up article of Launchbar: Dialing phone numbers with Fritz!Box, where I explained how to use Launchbar for dialing phone numbers via FritzBox. Meanwhile, AVM has changed the login procedure and the original script no longer works. With the help of this example, it’s finally doing its job again. Special thanks go to [...]
My Top 3 Finder Toolbar Scripts
With Leopard’s Finder, you can not only add applications to the toolbar, but also scripts. That’s an extremely useful feature I use every day and so I put together an introduction to my favorite three. But let’s first talk about the installation. That’s pretty easy. Just extract the downloaded archive, copy the script to an [...]
Launchbar: Dialing phone numbers with Fritz!Box (Applescript)
Update: The script on this page no longer works. Please refer to this one. Launchbar is a very convenient application launcher for Mac OS X. Among other great features like instant send, it can execute a script when invoking a phone number from your address book. I own a Fritz!Box 7170, which is one of [...]
Create RSS feeds with PHP
RSS is a format for publishing frequently changing content like news, a list of blog posts or directories. Using RSS readers like Google Reader or Apple Mail, you can read all your daily information at one place, offering a much better overview and faster processing than visiting every single website. An RSS feed from the [...]
Twitter URLs using Quicksilver
Wouldn’t it be nice to send the URL you’re currently looking at in Safari directly to Twitter by just executing a Quicksilver command or even by hitting a hotkey? I think, yes it is! And so I wrote an Applescript that performs the folowing tasks: Read the URL and title of the website currently shown [...]
Applescript: add document currently shown in Safari to Delicious
I just switched from Firefox to Safari and was looking for a nice way to add the website currently shown in Safari to my Delicious bookmarks. Delicious itself offers a bookmarklet for that purpose, but I prefer leaving the bookmark bar hidden. So I came up with a litte Applescript… It does nothing [...]
Add book price comparison to Amazon
I wrote a small Greasemonkey-Script, that adds links to the most famous German book price comparisons to the Amazon website.