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AppleScripts For Fun And Mischief?

Posted by on Apr 8, 2008 | One Comment

I really wish I had seen this on April 1st, the fun I could have had with the Mac here at the house. Seriously, setting my wife’s Mac up to ‘ “tell application “Finder” to say “Hello, my name is Macintosh.” ‘ is just priceless. A variation of the same could be done with Bash or with a Batch file I suppose, but it simply not be as elegant.

At the same time, I think there might be something to this kind of thing. Could even prove useful. But if it proves to be too much, it would be back to Linux Cron Jobs and perhaps RoboTask for Windows. Without a doubt, using RoboTask is the only piece of Windows software I still find myself coming back to again and again – there is just nothing else out there that holds a candle to it for automating your daily tasks. It’s fantastic!

So how about you? Are you finding AppleScript to be something that is becoming difficult to live without? Based on what I have seen and my own experience with Bash, I might jump in and see what it can do should time permit – could be fun. So hit the comment and share your thoughts on it. Is it time well spent or is it overly simplistic and not really worth it?

  • hunter

    Well I’m 14 and I use applescript almost every day.
    It is a fun little program if you just want to do a few simple things like: saying ‘Hi’ when you log onto your account, play with the voices at a party, or doing simple math like addition or division.
    Or you can use it for things as complex as building full programs from scratch! This could be something useful like an application that can do fully complex math problems, and show you how to solve them on it’s own.
    You can also use it to build programs inside programs. The uses to use it for a truly endless. So I would like to say that the man who thought this up is the nicest person ever to give everyone the ability to write your own programs :D