Category Archives: apple

Auto mount drives on Leopard with AppleScript

tell application “Finder”
if exists disk “Shared_Vol” then
else
mount volume “afp://user@myserver.com/Shared_Vol”
end if
if exists disk “input” then
else
mount volume “smb://user:passw0rd@mywindowsbox.com/input”
end if
end tell

To run it from command line or crontab:

osascript theAppleScript.scpt

Aperture 3 Released!

Apple just released Aperture 3 and I’m salivating all over it! There are tools that I would love to use in Photoshop but it’s just a hassle to switch between Aperture and Photoshop that I just gave up about it. Now, it’s built into Aperture! Wooooot!

Silverlight 3 and Hackintosh

Microsoft recently released Silverlight 3. As most of you know, the silverlight installer checks if you’re using an Intel Mac before it allows you to continue the installation. If you did not configure well / did a vanilla install, the installer will halt and informs you that you are using a PPC machine even though [...]