For years now, I’ve been iterating on an AppleScript to copy a link for the currently selected Apple Mail message to the clipboard. You can then paste the link elsewhere and get a link back to the source message. This came up during a…
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Script Debugger’s Retirement
Sad news to hear that Script Debugger is closing up shop. After 30 years, the application was the best for writing and troubleshooting AppleScript, and I’m sorry to see it go. My thanks to Shane and Mark for 30 years of hard work on an excellent app.
Continue reading →An Automation Golden Age
Did you know I have a newsletter? I post some, but not all of my newsletter’s content to this blog. Here’a a recent one. An Automation Golden Age I’ve mentioned several times on my podcasts that we’re experiencing a renaissance in automation, particularly on…
Continue reading →AppleScript to Toggle Desktop Widgets
I’m a fan of the new Sonoma Desktop Widgets. However, I also make a living making screencasts and having all those widgets on screen can sometimes be a pain. There is a setting you can toggle under the Desktop & Dock settings: The problem…
Continue reading →Deep Dive on Shortcuts-based Setups (MacSparky Labs)
Setting up your Mac for contextual-based work with Shortcuts is now better than ever…This is a post for MacSparky Labs Level 3 (Early Access) Members only. Care to join? Or perhaps do you need to sign in?
AI-Generated AppleScript
I enjoyed this article from Dr. Drang about the robot-created AppleScript. I think AppleScript will be one of the most difficult languages for AI models to write because it was created to make it more human-readable, and that makes it quirky. The other thing…
Continue reading →Using AppleScript to Set Apple Music Volume
Here’s a video explaining how I solved a problem of independently setting and managing the volume in Apple Music only using AppleScript. It’s a nice walkthrough of a simple-ish AppleScript…
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Using AppleScript to Open a Specific Mailbox in Apple Mail (MacSparky Labs)
Shortcuts for iOS 16 is adding a feature that lets you open a specific Mailbox in Apple Mail on your iPhone or iPad. Shortcuts for Ventura, however, doesn’t have that function. What gives? Never fear. Sparky figured out a way to duplicate the feature using AppleScript…
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Using Keyboard Maestro and AppleScript to Eject External Drives
I’ve been using a laptop + monitor setup for a while now, and I like it more than I expected. The last time I tried this, I had lots of problems getting the Mac and monitor to talk to each other when I’d plug…
Continue reading →Script Debugger 8
It’s a sad commentary on my AppleScripting lately that I just realized ScriptDebugger released version 8 several months ago. Script Debugger is the AppleScript tool that Apple should have released. It’s been in development for 26 years, and it continues to impress.The most significant change…
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