{"id":3658,"date":"2011-07-29T20:38:16","date_gmt":"2011-07-30T01:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=3658"},"modified":"2018-02-13T14:28:38","modified_gmt":"2018-02-13T19:28:38","slug":"fastscripts-vs-the-mac-app-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/29\/fastscripts-vs-the-mac-app-store\/","title":{"rendered":"FastScripts vs. the Mac App Store"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.red-sweater.com\/blog\/2027\/fastscripts-2-6-1\">Daniel Jalkut<\/a>:<\/p>\r\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.red-sweater.com\/blog\/2027\/fastscripts-2-6-1\"><p>This script is terrible to start with, but starting in OS X Lion, it simply doesn&rsquo;t work. It fails with cryptic errors, and FastScripts faithfully reports them. Apple is rejecting FastScripts for the behavior of a faulty script that is bundled with OS X Lion.<\/p><\/blockquote>\r\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.red-sweater.com\/fastscripts\/\">FastScripts<\/a> is one of my favorite utilities. Hopefully, the App Store version&rsquo;s functionality will not be significantly curtailed by Apple&rsquo;s upcoming application sandbox requirements. Starting in November, applications will only be able to send Apple events if they apply for a <a href=\"http:\/\/developer.apple.com\/library\/mac\/#documentation\/Security\/Conceptual\/CodeSigningGuide\/ApplicationSandboxingEntitlementKeys\/ApplicationSandboxingEntitlementKeys.html\">temporary exception<\/a> on a per-target-application basis. FastScripts&rsquo; job, of course, is to send Apple events to <em>any<\/em> application I might have installed.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daniel Jalkut: This script is terrible to start with, but starting in OS X Lion, it simply doesn&rsquo;t work. It fails with cryptic errors, and FastScripts faithfully reports them. Apple is rejecting FastScripts for the behavior of a faulty script that is bundled with OS X Lion. FastScripts is one of my favorite utilities. Hopefully, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1624,30,39,211,53],"class_list":["post-3658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-fastscripts","tag-mac","tag-macappstore","tag-lion","tag-sandboxing"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3658"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3659,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3658\/revisions\/3659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}