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Blogging with AppleScript

16th January 2003

Les Orchard describes an intriguing blogging tool built with AppleScript that posts links to a weblog when they are dragged on to a special folder on the OS X desktop.

Posted 16th January 2003 at 10:29 pm · Follow me on Mastodon, Bluesky, Twitter or subscribe to my newsletter

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