This week’s App.Net launch is a small victory for an idea: Instead of being cynical, people can make the culture that they’re looking for. In that spirit, I’m going to share a few people I think are doing work worthy of your support. (Grab those wallets and purses!)

I thought I’d bring something from the Veritrope.com Twitter Feed back into the site, via Storify…

This week’s App.Net launch is a small victory for an idea:

Instead of being cynical, people can make the culture that they’re looking for.

In that spirit, I’m going to share a few people I think are doing work worthy of your support.

Please check it out (and grab those wallets and purses!)

[View the story “Fund ‘Em Friday — August 17, 2012” on Storify]

Version 3.3 of the Mac Evernote Client seems to break several Evernote AppleScript functions. Get the latest updates on the situation here.

Shortly after Evernote’s new client for the Mac (version 3.3) was released, I began receiving reports that some AppleScripts were either partially or totally broken. (An example – the Evernote-to-DEVONthink AppleScript isn’t working because, when you ask Evernote to export notes via AppleScript, it now causes a disk permission error.)

I contacted Evernote’s Developer team and they’ve told me they are working on the Evernote AppleScript bridge and that the product team is looking into the errors. I’ll post updates here as I have them but, if AppleScripts are a critical part of your workflow, you may want to hold off on updating to 3.3 until we know more!

Update on November 4, 2012

Evernote recently announced a completely rewritten Mac app which is now in beta testing. Once it’s released, I’ll continue working on the AppleScripts for Evernote. One side benefit for all you early adopters — since the beta is being distributed outside the Mac App Store, many of the broken AppleScripts seem to be working again.

Feel free to send me a message on Twitter or on App.net if you want to let me know how the new Evernote is working for you.

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New and Recently Updated AppleScripts for apps including Apple Mail, Day One, Outlook 2011, OmniFocus, and Evernote

What The Rest Of The World Is Doing While I'm Sitting In Front Of My Computer

Here in New York, the weather has taken a beautiful turn: The sun is shining and, out my window, I can see people smiling and laughing while they walk down the street. “Out my window”? Yup – because I’ve been busy sitting at my desk, churning out AppleScripts for all you good Mac people.1

So before I join the frolicking masses, I thought I’d share a few of the latest updates and additions to the Veritrope.com Code Library. Hope you enjoy them and be sure to check back here when you take a break from playing in the spring sunshine. Who knows… there may be some more goodies2 coming soon!:

(Follow Veritrope on Twitter to get the latest updates!)

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  1. Or as my wife likes to call it “What the hell are you doing inside on a beautiful day like this?!?” [↩]
  2. OmniOutliner fans should be sure to check back [↩]

Your previously purchased movies are available to stream from the cloud to your iOS. Unless they aren’t.
Bastards!

The Fine Print Taketh Away...

With the recent release of iOS 5.0 for Apple TV, I was eager to check out one new feature in particular: Streaming Movies from the iTunes Cloud.

One of the improvements touted in the release announcement was that users would be able to stream their previously purchased movies directly from the cloud in the same way as they could with TV shows and music. Early reports from people who updated their second generation Apple TV to iOS 5.0 also suggested that this applied to the “Digital Copies” of movies included on many Blu-Ray discs as well.1

But what at first seemed to be a clear step forward for movie lovers turned out to be, predictably, more complicated.

“When purchased, this movie will not be available from iTunes in the Cloud”

After updating my Apple TV to iOS 5, I was mystified when it told me that I had no purchased movies. I don’t generally buy movies from iTunes, but I have purchased a few — and so the notion that “The Princess Bride” wouldn’t be available to stream like Apple said it would be was sort of inconceiv… uh, I just found it hard to believe.

Peter Kafka2 from All Things D is now reporting that Fox and Universal have an existing deal with HBO which currently prevents these movies from being available via iCloud. These movies have a disclaimer on their iTunes Store purchase page — “When purchased, this movie will not be available from iTunes in the Cloud”.

You can still use Home Sharing to stream them from your computer to Apple TV but, for now, Apple’s promise of making purchased movies available from the cloud has a big asterisk next to it.

  1. For more on this, check out this great guide to using “Digital Copies” with iTunes by Gabe Gagliano at Tech of the Hub [↩]
  2. A reporter whose surname, I thought, was completely appropriate to the coverage of Hollywood’s approach to digital rights [↩]