Ever since upgrading to Snow Leopard, one function I’ve missed is the ability to toggle the Keyboard Viewer on and off with an applescript.
It looks like Apple modified the Keyboard Viewer utility for Mac OS X 10.6 (or a possible tablet, who knows…) and the old applescripts don’t work.

I’ve finally come across a method for getting this to work in Snow Leopard again, although it’s not as easy as it was in Leopard, and it seems to be as slow as hell to open.
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Listening to music whenever at my Mac, I’ve come to realise iTunes shuffle doesn’t actually shuffle as you might expect.
That is, it’s not completely random. Tracks are selected based on skip count and play count.
If you’ve skipped a track a few times, it’s less likely to be played in shuffle mode than those with a higher play count.

Now, in need of some kind of method to make sure ALL of my tracks get played (I had some un-played from over a year ago because of iTunes’ lack of shuffling) I set up my own custom smart playlist to sit alongside the ‘Recently Played’ playlist.

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There’s a fix for working on Snow Leopard, just read on MacDuff. Thanks to David and Januz for this!

Recently, I’ve been looking for a script to toggle my screen-saver password for my MacBook.
While out and about I want to make sure my Mac is safe from stray fingers by making sure a password is required before waking, but when at home or in university there’s no need for this extra layer of protection.

Searching the web I found absolutely nothing, except a few scripts that were old and broken.
The only solution; I decided to write my own. You can download the applescript here in zip form (10.6 – Snow Leopard compatible version here), or view the script in your browser here (10.6 – Snow Leopard compatible version here). (Warning – it’s not the easiest thing to read!)

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