Archive for the 'mac' Category

iPad Pro

Saturday, April 17th, 2010

Own a MacBook Pro and an iPad?  Tired of carrying around both?  Meet the iPad Pro. I’m looking forward to the day when the monitor of my MacBook Pro becomes an iPad.  No extra things to carry around.  If you want to run to a quick meeting or browse on the couch, just snap off [...]

Creating a Desktop Shortcut on a Mac

Wednesday, November 26th, 2008

Making a desktop shortcut icon on the Mac is pretty easy.  Open up the AppleScript script editor and make a script like this:do shell script “/Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox-bin -P Developer -no-remote &” Then save as an application on the desktop.  Done. This example shows how to pass parameters from AppleScript.  In particular, it shows how to open [...]