AppleScripts for ControlPlane

One of the simplest ways to contribute to ControlPlane is by writing scripts. This page serves as a resource for finding scripts that are useful when combined with ControlPlane.

If you have created a script, please consider submitting your script to http://hints.macworld.com and then linking to the approved submission. This will help ensure your script reaches a larger audience.

If you have found a script, feel free to simply link to it from here.

AppleScripts

• Fast User Switching: Quickly and automatically switch between user accounts.
• Fine Volume Control: Increase or decrease volume by very small amounts.
• Switching Time Machine Drives: This script allows you to switch your Time Machine destination drive.
• Start Playlist in iTunes: It will take some tweaking from the provided version, but this should let you open iTunes (if closed) and start playing a given playlist.

Shell Scripts

• Adjust Sleep Timer: Set or disable the sleep timer.
• Instant Time Machine Backup: Trigger a local Time Machine backup at will.
• Reboot into Windows: Make the next reboot boot into windows. (Also has an AppleScript version.)
• Check Time Machine Disk: Run a fast volume check on large Time Machine backup disks.

Miscellaneous

• Run Winexe: winexe remotely executes commands on WindowsNT/2000/XP/2003 systems from GNU/Linux (and in this case, Mac).