Mac UI Design Rocks

Mac's design for "Accessibility" features are awesome.

First, I use screen-zooming all the time. alt-mac-equals to zoom in, alt-mac-minus to zoom out. But for some reason it's turned off by default: (Preferences -> Universal Access -> Zoom -> turn zoom on)

Second: speech recognition. It's a fun toy, at least; It can navigate screens and windows reasonably, though I'm too impatient to rely on it.

This morning's discovery, the reason for this post: any application can be apple-scripted; the GUI can be worked via programming. This includes reading or setting the values of any user-editable field on the screen.

In more practical terms, even if (say) I can't convince the developers of Cha-Ching to add an applescript interface, I could write a simple Quicken import right now. Using features which were built into the OS to provide accessibility for people who can't use the regular GUI. Thank you Apple.

More details about GUI Scripting here.

nifty...

Google Calendar can show you a 4-day weather forecast. And, anything else you can supply it via .ical data, apparently. Who would've thunk, a weather forecast on a calendar? ...Looks great for this weekend, at least.

Today has chewed me up and spit me out. I'd not have minded as much but I slept very badly last night, probably thanks to the amounts of caffeine I drank yesterday. Dumb, dumb.