Category Archives: plasticware

Applescript Show Track in Finder

March 11, 2008 – 1:44 pm

Space has been tight lately on my laptop and I’ve been too lazy to thoroughly go through and clean up. I keep regular backups, however, so I wrote this script so that when I hear a track that I don’t care so much about in iTunes on random, I can go to the folder and [...]

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Happy Birthday Karel Čapek (and robots)

January 9, 2008 – 10:58 am

Today is the birthday of Karel Čapek, who is attributed with popularizing the term “robot,” which he introduced in his 1921 play “Rossum’s Universal Robots” (or R.U.R.). He gives credit to his brother Josef for inventing the word, which has its roots in the Slovak word robota which translates literally to “serf labor.” Čapek is [...]

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Textmate (Revisited) vs. TextWrangler

July 18, 2006 – 11:31 am

PlasticWare Downloadable ::
PlasticCodeWrap TextMate Syntax Theme Version 1.0 (Jul. 18, 2006)
Download (~1400 bytes) :: PlasticCodeWrap.zip
So, now that I have moved on to working for a software company, I’ve moved on also to actually coding more javascript for work. For some quick and dirty (well, actually not so dirty, but outside the realm of a set [...]

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