42 Astoundingly Useful Scripts and Automations for the Macintosh - Softcover

Stratton, Jerry

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1093515333 ISBN 13: 9781093515336

Publisher: Independently published, 2019

Synopsis

Forty-two astoundingly useful scripts and automations for your Macintosh. Work faster and more reliably. Use Perl, Python, AppleScript, Swift, and Automator to automate the drudgery of computer use. Work on the command line, add actions to the services menu and the menu bar, and create drag-and-drop apps. Build talking alarms. Roll dice. Create ASCII art and music! Preflight your social media comments and display your to-do lists on your desktop. And of course, manage your favorite recipes. That’s what computers are for. Get your retro on and bring your Macintosh into the world we were promised, a world of personal computers, where your computer is yours to control.

About this title

About the Author

Jerry Stratton has sold programming articles to Hobby Computer Handbook, 80 Microcomputing, and Dragon Magazine. He has managed the web site and server at a small private university and has been writing computer programs since 1982 on the Radio Shack TRS-80 Model I.

From the Back Cover

Build talking alarms. Roll dice. Create ASCII art and music!

Preflight your social media comments.

Display your to-do list on your desktop.

And of course, manage your favorite recipes. That's what computers are for.

Get your retro on and bring your Macintosh into the world we were promised, a world of personal computers, where your computer is yours to control. You have the technology. You have the source code. The era of the home computer awaits.

Edition details

• Publisher: Independently published
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1093515333
• ISBN 13: 9781093515336
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 251