The ramblings of a madman

Just finished Part 1 of the Core Controls in Mac OS X from Ray Wenderlich’s site, looking decent already.

http://www.raywenderlich.com/27388/core-controls-in-mac-os-x-part-12

Completed Part 2.

http://www.raywenderlich.com/27390/core-controls-in-mac-os-x-part-22

Love the Chapter titles:

Hot Date Tonight — NSDatePicker

Video Killed the Radio…Button — NSMatrix

This tutorial is written by Tutorial Team member Ernesto García, a Mac and iOS developer and founder of CocoaWithChurros.

Just been surfing the net and came across this handy little tool, fTerminal, for opening the finder window in the terminal

http://www.hiddenelephant.com/blog/2009/05/11/quick-jump-from-finder-to-terminal/

One problem, I downloaded, unzipped and had the

and when I tried to run it

“You can’t open the application fTerminal – PowerPC because PowerPC applications are no longer supported.“

So let’s create a new Automator Application.

Search for Automator and choose Run AppleScript

Now add your code

on run {input, parameters}
(* Your script goes here *)
return input
end run


Maybe you want to add an Icon to the Application:
http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/369/can-i-change-the-application-icon-of-an-automator-script

After the script has been created do the following :

1. Find the icon you want
2. Get Info of the icon file (cmd-i)
3. Click on the icon inside the info window
4. Copy it (cmd-c)
5. Get Info of the application (cmd-i)
6. Click on the icon inside the info window
7. Paste the icon in the clipboard (cmd-v)

This method works for every files in Mac OS X.

Can be done with a service:

System Preferences > Keyboard > Keyboard Shortcuts > Services

Enable
    New Terminal at Folder
    New Terminal Tab at Folder