West Side Highway, NYC, September 2004

“He who warned the British that they weren’t going to be taking away our arms, by ringing those bells, and making sure as he’s riding his horse through town to send those warning shots and bells that we were going to be secure and we were going to be free.”

Obviously.

Just sayin’…

(h/t @caughtintheweb @jawnita)

In any case, the main problem with the shuffle scripts I found online was that you wouldn’t get a notification that the toggle actually happened. But quicksilver makes that easy. The addition of the “tell quicksilver” lines in the script below worked perfectly. (I also believe Growl needs to be installed for this…)

As always, save this script in a folder that’s scanned into the qs catalog, and find a memorable key combo to set as the default. I use “shuff.”

Here’s the script:
tell application “iTunes”
if shuffle of current playlist is false then
set shuffle of current playlist to true
tell application “Quicksilver”
show notification “Shuffle On”
end tell
else
set shuffle of current playlist to false
tell application “Quicksilver”
show notification “Shuffle Off”
end tell
end if
end tell

I have a number of Empire State Building photos. The west-facing side of the building catches the sunset over jersey most nights; in this photo, I like the bit of clouds in the background.

Why can’t quicksilver do this? Why isn’t there a script?

I already had a script to initiate the sync, but not to eject. I’ve tried to make one, and checked the itunes “dictionary” in the script editor countless times, but never saw the eject command.

So, today, I googled it.

Duh.

The same place I found a script to sync — here, at Macworld’s OS X Hints site — in the same post no less (!!!), there’s a script to eject the phone.

To set this up, it’s simple.

First, open the AppleScript Editor application. Next, create two new script files, and paste each one of the scripts on this page into a new script.

Save them both in the Quicksilver Actions folder (by default: Home -> Library -> Application Support -> Quicksilver -> Actions). You can name one something like “itunes_sync” and the other “itunes_eject” — or whatever you can remember, as those are the scripts you’ll be calling in Quicksilver.

Next, rescan the Quicksilver catalog (if you just type “rescan” in Quicksilver, it will bring up the “Catalog Rescan” action for you to run), and your scripts will be ready to go.

Plug in your iphone, type the name of the sync script you created, and watch it go! Same for the eject.

You’ll probably want to change the score for an abbreviated form of the script’s name to call it — I have “it” set to call my sync script.