Instead of working on starting my thesis work I decided that writing some AppleScripts and installing cool Mac apps would qualify as a time well spent.
Growl is one of the coolest apps for Mac I've seen (so far). A global notification handling system is a concept much needed in the Windows world and it is nice to see such a great implementation of such a system as Growl is. It had been bugging my for quite some time that I couldn't globally control iTunes in a clean fashion (e.g. without a mouse driven menu-bar program). I finally found a nice program that could create hot-key macro sequences (and wasn't overly complex and slow), Keyboard Maestro. It had a couple of built-in functions to control iTunes but I couldn't instantly rate the songs with out switching to iTunes, which was what I desperately needed.So after discovering that I could execute my own custom AppleScript code I found some nice implementations that I could use to control iTunes as I liked. But the coolest thing in all this is that the Growl system can also be controlled via AppleScript and thus I was able to create hotkeys that switch between songs/show current song info and quick rate them meanwhile displaying all the info I wanted to see on-screen for my viewing pleasure :D
This small banner, displaying the song info, rating and album art, slides up at the bottom of my screen stays for 2 secs and then slides down again. Kewl eh?
Here are the AppleScripts I used:
CurrentTrackInfo.scpt
Rating0.scpt (Added this one to the ones that came with Growl)
Today I love my Mac but... mixed feelings toward this hunk of rock I'm living on have surfaced recently...
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