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timpulver / GetNameAndTitleOfActiveWindow.scpt
Created February 11, 2013 10:38
[AppleScript] Get Name of active window | Returns the name / title of the active (frontmost) window
# taken from user Albert's answer on StackOverflow
# http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5292204/macosx-get-foremost-window-title
# tested on Mac OS X 10.7.5
global frontApp, frontAppName, windowTitle
set windowTitle to ""
tell application "System Events"
set frontApp to first application process whose frontmost is true
set frontAppName to name of frontApp
@Moligaloo
Moligaloo / plutil.pl
Created January 30, 2013 08:32
Convert Apple's property list file between binary format and XML format
# plutil.pl 1.6 - implementation of binary/UTF-8 (text) XML conversion of plist files
# does not (yet) support OS X plutil command line syntax
# 1.0 - first public release
# 1.1 - added support for date Type 3; fixed real Type 2
# 1.2 - fixed handling of empty arrays
# 1.3 - fixed handling of large strings and empty keys
# 1.4 - write utf8 in XML, convert as necessary on read
# 1.5 - read/write 8 byte integers and negative integers; handle special XML chars in dictionary keys
# - now requires Math::BigInt