Spotify Applescripts Version 0.4.3

With the new version of Spotify the menus have been moved around, so I have updated the Applescripts that you can use to control Spotify with Quicksilver.
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tell application "System Events"
	set MyList to (name of every process)
end tell
 
tell application "System Events" to set appList to ¬
	name of application processes whose frontmost is true
 
set activeApp to item 1 of appList
if (MyList contains "Spotify") is true then
	tell application "Spotify" to activate
	tell application "System Events"
		tell process "Spotify"
click menu item 3 of menu 1 of menu bar item 6 of menu bar 1
		end tell
	end tell
	tell application "System Events"
		set visible of process "Spotify" to false
	end tell
end if
 

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tell application "System Events"
	set MyList to (name of every process)
end tell
 
tell application "System Events" to set appList to ¬
	name of application processes whose frontmost is true
 
set activeApp to item 1 of appList
if (MyList contains "Spotify") is true then
	tell application "Spotify" to activate
	tell application "System Events"
		tell process "Spotify"
click menu item 4 of menu 1 of menu bar item 6 of menu bar 1
		end tell
	end tell
	tell application "System Events"
		set visible of process "Spotify" to false
	end tell
end if
 

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tell application "System Events"
	set MyList to (name of every process)
end tell
 
tell application "System Events" to set appList to ¬
	name of application processes whose frontmost is true
 
set activeApp to item 1 of appList
if (MyList contains "Spotify") is true then
	tell application "Spotify" to activate
	tell application "System Events"
		tell process "Spotify"
click menu item 1 of menu 1 of menu bar item 6 of menu bar 1
		end tell
	end tell
	tell application "System Events"
		set visible of process "Spotify" to false
	end tell
end if
 

Postcards from New York

I never actually thought I would end up buying an iPad or for that matter really liking one if i did. However, sat at 32,000ft typing this review out on an iPad this thing makes absolute sense, and is just about the best gadget I have purchased to date.

For the vegetarians amongst you, there is a very easy analogy the iPhone is a quorn burger, where as the iPad is a full blown New York strip steak with steak sauce, fries and whatever else you care to have on, or with your steak. Yes it doesn't multi-task, and yes you are limited to the apps that apple approve - but what you do get is a fantastic piece of hardware with some fantastic apps.

The ultimate role of the iPad is neither to be a laptop nor a giant iPhone, it is to be the device you goto on a morning to get your news fix, or when you are sat down and having an argument over who made the engines for the Blackbird. It's instantly on and instantly there, unlike any device I have ever used you click it happens.

The keyboard is surprisingly good and like the iPhone, it will learn your common mistakes and correct them. Unlike the iPhone however there is built in spell checker, which seems to be apart of the OS so is available to any application that supports it; it's the simple touches that make life easier.

As far as battery life goes I expect it to easily last the 6hour flight to San Francisco that I am on now, which will involve watching at least 3 episode of FlashForward, and multiple tweets.

All in all I think it may well turn out to be a good buy.

In Search of Fake Bacon…

As we all should now acknowledge vegetarian, vegan or otherwise love bacon. Whether they admit this is an entirely different matter, but usually you can have any vegetarian craving a bacon butty with a couple more drinks than he or she should really have had.

So has the vegetarian cult found its saviour in the most unlikely of places, Linda McCartney? Well not really, unlike the Cult of Qorn eaters who insist they are vegetarian but have to have meat substitutes that look and taste like meat. Linda McCartney's range of Super Substitute foods, offers the meat eater something that tastes good and more importantly doesn't pretend to be meat. Best of all they do taste rather good, even without a large dousing in HP sauce.

So ends Day 9, of my epic struggle with not eating meat till easter - so far so good, and don't forget I am suffering so you don't have to.

Pseudo-Sausages & Fake Bacon – What Have I Done…

You may not know, but during the cold snap over Britain at the beginning of this new decade - Hell Froze Over. Yes, thats right Hell Froze Over completely. How do I know this? Well its quite simple, I decided to disregard 19 years of teaching and go VEGETARIAN. Any rational human being such as Gregory House MD, would immediately declare me insane, and probably have me certified if I was to add I would keep the game up for 3 whole months. So a New Years Resolution was made.

So far so good I am already at Day 4, of what is sure to be a flatulent, green eating, tree hugging, hippy portion of my life. Observations are coming thick and fast:

1) Vegetarians don't have a stereotype do they?
This is something that made me laugh at the supermarket, practically every vegetarian product has a "Save the {Insert Animal Here}" or some high moral statement. Way to go and dispelling the stereotype to the novice vege.

2) Tesco Express is rubbish
Every little may help, but there is such a poor selection of vegetables and meat substitutes in even the biggest Central London Tesco's its a joke. Also involved me going under nourished on Day 3, because I really wanted some courgettes.

3) "Captain, We appear to be detecting a gaseous anomaly on the starboard side"
Now we get to the toilet humor. I am guessing that everybody kind of guesses this one, but nobody really wants to talk about it. Well fear not jack is here, and let me tell you eating all that hey and lettuce makes you fart like you have never farted before, it also causes a small weather nexus of high pressure around you. I think this was the inspiration of the Travis Song - Why Does It Always Rain On Me.

Wait there is yet more to come.
In my next installment, I am going to cover Whole Foods, Dietary Balance, What on Earth to do with Tofu, and why does Linda McCartney make Vegetarian Pseudo-Sausages.

I am suffering so you don't have to people.

PIXAR Intro clip: The Truth