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Clipboard Scripts 1.0.0 is an impressive and unique package of 20 AppleScripts, which may be used by virtually anyone to become more efficient while performing everyday tasks.

"Clipboard Scripts" are accessed through Apple's "Script Menu", which is installed with Mac OS X 10.2 and later. By integrating these AppleScripts with the "Script Menu", they may be triggered at any time, from within any application.

"Clipboard Scripts" utilize the clipboard in OS X to perform specialized tasks. After copying text to the clipboard, users can trigger these AppleScripts to add prefixes and suffixes to each paragraph, sort paragraphs, extract URLs, remove HTML tags, and much more! A 5-script "Clipboard Scripts" package is available as freeware from the Automated Workflows web site.

ScriptMaster XT 3.0 offers users a comprehensive QuarkXPress XTension that generates scripts by recording actions and enables users to view and edit the automatically generated scripts.

Major Features:

1. Records any action in XPress that is supported by XPress' scripting libraries.
2. If you're new to scripting, ScriptMaster XT is great for quickly generating scripts or for learning from the generated AppleScript code.
3. If you are an advanced scripter, ScriptMaster XT can help you to debug code by recording actions and comparing it with your own code.

Requirements:

• Mac OS 10.3 or later QuarkXPress 6.x

Script ToolBox 1.5 brings a powerful application which has the aim to aid in the writing of AppleScript by giving scripters some features not present in the current Script Editor. By using Script ToolBox along with Script Editor you can greatly enhance your productivity in writing AppleScripts.

Requirements: Mac OS 8.6 - 9.1 PPC

Acme Script Widgets 3.0.6 is a rather praiseworthy program that extends the AppleScript language with important tools for manipulating text and lists. Commands include: Sort, search/replace, tokenize, join lists,extract URLs, set/get the clipboard, trim, offsets of, read/write styled text, change case, insert/delete item, and others.

Major Features:

1. Text Processing
   • Acme replace: Replace occurrences of a string with another string, with options for case-sensitive search, replace all or only first occurrence, and apply the replacement to lists of items or lists of lists!
   • Change case: Convert text to UPPER case, lower case, Sentence case, or toggle the case of every character.
   • Offsets of:
   • Tokenize: Split a string into a list of items based on one or more delimiter strings. You are not restricted to using single characters as delimiters for breaking the string into separate items.
   • Trim: Trim text (not just spaces) from either end of a string (or both), optionally ignoring patterns. Works on strings or lists of strings.
   • Acme sort: Sort a list of data items [strings, numbers, dates, etc.] or sort lists of lists into ascending or descending order. For sorting lists of lists, specify which item within the inner list is used for comparisons.
2. List Manipulation
   • Offset in list: Search for a string in a list of items and return the index into the list of the first occurrence, or all occurences.
   • Insert item: Insert an item into a list at a specified index.
   • Delete item: Delete an item from a list at a specified index.
   • Join list: This is the reverse of the tokenize operation. Given a list of strings, combine the elements into a single string with separator strings.
   • Combine lists: Groups the Nth items from sublistts together into a list of new lists.
3. Other Tools...
   • Acme parse args: This function handles decoding and grouping http CGI arguments (such as from a Form POST submission). Strings are URL-decoded in the process. [Only available for Mac OS 8/9]
   • Acme lookup field: After calling Acme parse args on your CGI data, get the value of a form field using this function. [Only available for Mac OS 8/9]
   • Download the OS X replacement for these functions: DecodeURL Script

Requriements: Mac OS 8/9/X

iTunes/Irssi Script 0.2.1 provides you with a useful script which allows you to handle most iTunes commands from inside irssi IRC program. Boot/Quit/Next/Prev/Show/Stats/Play/Stop/Rewind/Search/Playlist/Volume

Requirements:

• Mac OS XIrssi w/
• Perl supportTerminal

X-10 Scripting Addition 1.2 is a simple to use, yet sophisticated shell and desktop tool. Would you rather wake up to gentle background music from your stereo and the smell of fresh brewed coffee? Ever wish your computer could turn on the printer when you want to print a file and then turn it back off when it was finished? Would you like your house to look lived in when you're away on vacation? Ever wanted to just say "Stereo On" and have your stereo turn on? Now you can do all of this and more from your Macintosh using AppleScript!

This shareware package provides a collection of scripting commands that let you control appliances, lights, etc. from AppleScript using a very inexpensive CP290 interface and X-10 modules that are available at many electronics stores or via mail order. If you're new to home automation or AppleScript, the detailed manual provides lots of background information, examples, mail order companies for the interface and modules, contacts for home automation magazines, etc.