More Big Cat Scripts
Daniel A. Shockley’s Scripts for Big Cat include WebSearches, which allows you to search for the selected text in lots of different search engines.
Open Resource Folder by Rob Jorgensen opens the resource folder of a selected package.
Dieter May has posted some scripts for converting postscript to PDF.
Zip 1.0, by Dan Pouliot, uses DropZip to compress selected files.
Tadpol’s Big Cat scripts compress files, make disk images, and set file type and creator codes to BBEdit’s codes.
Oak & Apple’s Big Cat scripts stuff and zip selected files and count the number of words in a text selection.
Studio Gallery’s Big Cat scripts include Entourage scripts and a script for converting linebreaks to BRs in BBEdit. Go here and scroll down to where it says “Scripts for Big Cat Plug-in.”
From Wooden Brain Concepts comes a set of scripts for iTunes, mounting disk images, and for opening the terminal window to the current directory. Download.
Michael Grant’s scripts
Michael is a very prolific Big Cat script writer, so he gets his own section.
Big Cat Text Scripts include search engine scripts and scripts that work with Entourage and iCal.
Get-Set Comments allow you to read and edit comments for Finder items.
Compression Scripts stuff and zip selected files.
Group in New Folder creates a new folder in the current window and moves the selected items into that folder.
Stationery converts selected files to stationery pads.
Toggle Locked locks selected files if they’re not locked, and unlocks them if they are locked.
Mail Selection to... converts selected text into an e-mail message without launching a graphical e-mail client.
Your scripts
If you’ve written some Big Cat scripts and posted them on the web, I’d like to be able to list them here. Send me email (to brent at ranchero dot com) with a URL. Thanks!
