links for 2008-02-26

a very nice color picker to be integrated wherever is needed, just adding a form/input and hop!

(tags: color colorpicker jquery code plugin javascript)

use javascript, png and css to simulate gradients in a css compliant manner – nice!

(tags: css gradient)

a nice use of the mdfind command to export xml out of searches… big potential there, i think: SpotLight to Atom (rss) – it sounds a bit like the electronest.com website build on top of Apache very standard features

(tags: filesystem xml rss system spotlight atom syndication agregation terminal)

dictionnary of AppleScript for the Microsoft Word application

(tags: applescript word reference _playbill)

the wikipedia page for AppleScript, giving informations about one of the most powerful resource in an Apple computer: it’s automation ability

(tags: applescript osx)

using the Finder as development and production environment; remembered me a bunch of ideas we explored with Andreas Schneider about using the standard tools of a computer system to generate presentations, website, weblog, etc.

(tags: applescript IDE finder automation development workflow)