Great overview on new scripting features in OSX 10.9 Mavericks:
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Service to “Make Protected Zip” files
AppleScript XML-RPC
I have used this for few things:
Alerts to Notification Center in Mountain Lion
This could come in useful in many situations.
Anvil for Mac
This looks intriguing. I’ll give it a try.
Dropbox Now Syncs Extended Attributes
Extended Attribute Sync – Syncing resource forks have historically been a pain for Mac users. In case you don’t know, resource forks are a secret area of a file that certain applications like Quicken, Quark, and OmniGraffle use to store important data. Most sync programs today completely ignore these forks, which results in a corrupted file on the other end. But worry not! Resource forks and other extended attributes now work great with Dropbox. Hooray!
This is great news. I use Dropbox to sync my ~/Library/Scripts
and ~/Library/Services
folder across multiple computers. ((the way I do that is to move all scripts and/or workflows I want to sync to ~/Dropbox/Scripts
or ~/Dropbox/Services
and replace the actual folder in ~/Library
with a symlink: ln -s ~/Dropbox/Scripts ~/Library/Scripts
))
While AppleScript files usually work, some Automator Workflow files store extra information in extended attributes and those would break when syncing. Now with the latest version of Dropbox things work fine.
If you don’t use Dropbox yet, you should try it. You can support scriptingosx.com a little by signing up to Dropbox through this link, then both you and me will get some extra free storage space.
The timeless utility of sed and awk
A little command line knowledge goes a long way
via Strata Gems: The timeless utility of sed and awk – O’Reilly Radar.