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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!

Opening New terminal in Leopard in the Current or Other Specified Directory

Found this tip over at macosxhints.com and also tlrobinson.net to be very useful. I don’t know how many times I’ve always open a new terminal with cmd-n and slowly cd into the current directory of the other terminal window.
However, both guides had something lacking from each other. The guide from macosxhints.com can’t be completed because I can’t [...]