Posts tagged…Script
Tidying up your music files
Tue, Apr 20 2010
OK, so you've taken my advice and used XLD to rip your CDs with AutomateXLD taking care of pressing those buttons while you get on with other stuff [Update:Turns out that the AutomateXLD script is not needed—just use the 'Start ripping automatically' setting in the Rip tab of the preferences ].
But XLD allows you to select only one output directory (click the thumbnail to see the XLD preferences…
Read more…Auto rip multiple audio CDs in OS X
Sun, Apr 18 2010
So you want to rip your library of CDs to your computer. ITunes will automate this for you—loading and ejecting CDs as it fills up its library.
But what if you want a more accurate rip using the Accurate Rip database? What if you prefer not to store your music only in iTunes; for example because you prefer another player or you prefer to use the file-system rather than a proprietary library to…
Sunday excursion: image workflow
Sun, Mar 29 2009
Geek-stuff. A recipe for 'repurposing' images for the web using ImageMagick. It took me a few hours to figure this out from the terse documentation…so I'm hoping to save you the trouble.
Over the fold, an Applescript to resize an image, sharpen, expand the contrast range, and create a thumbnail. Even if you don't run under OSX you can use the ImageMagick routines embedded in this script with…
58 years of Victorian temperatures
Mon, Mar 23 2009
A small experiment with the Bureau of Met's record of mean temperature anomalies for Victoria using Hadley Wickham's 'ggplot' library for R. There are 696 observations of monthly means between 1950 and 2008. The Bureau provides 'anomalies' from the monthly 1961-1990 means. How are these anomalies distributed? Are they skewed toward the upper 'tail' of the distribution, pointing to an alarming…
Recognition of R
Thu, Jan 29 2009"To some people R is just the 18th letter of the alphabet. To others, it’s the rating on racy movies, a measure of an attic’s insulation or what pirates in movies say." extract from NY TimesShould I be embarrassed, as an Australian, that one of my favorite languages comes from New Zealand?
“Pester Me”
Tue, Nov 06 2007Always tell yourself the truth
“Pester Me” is an Applescript that can be set to check on, and record, your current activity. Over time it gives you a pretty good idea of what you’ve been up to. Installation instructions in the PesterMe.zip file.
Camino to DevonThink script
Sat, Jun 16 2007A small Applescript application for copying pages from Camino to DevonThink PE
I offer you this compiled script under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license and with the warning that I make no representations whatever about its functionality or safety or suitability for you (or about the future of the planet).
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