Robert isn’t around, but I decided to go on his blog by myself. Now, at least he can’t interrupt me.
Here is how I see myself today: Whatever any other application can do, I can do better. Well, maybe not better. But I can be the application that every other application likes working with the best.
I hold information, and then I tell everything else what to do with it. I thought of some examples yesterday. Here is another one. Suppose you want to take all the photos you have in a folder or iPhoto library, and burn them to a disk. Sure, there some pretty easy ways to do that. But what if you wanted to size all of them, put information at the bottom of each picture, and then create a label or printout with their names. (Or create a database of their EXIF data.)
Well, you could create a card that does all that. You drag the folder to the card, and it connects Photoshop to Word to FileMaker to Toast. In a few moments you have a new pile of cards with your resized and labeled photos, the list is printing out, and Toast is asking you to insert a blank CD.
You can probably do all of this right now in AppleScript. But I like to think of myself as a visual facilitator. I help you with all the links, and keep everything organized. And unlike AppleScript, if you decide you want to use BBEdit instead of Word to make your text and labels, you just drag it onto a card and connect it rather than Word.
Uh, thought I heard the garage door. I better go before I get caught on here.
Sincerely,
theApplication
