Although this may actually belong in the programming forum, I figure that more Slackware users will see it here and maybe use it and/or improve upon it (I'm not exactly a programmer, but am just able ...

Regarding the ability to create a double-clickable Terminal script (see previous item), Scott Lahteine notes that: AppleScript Menu can do more than just run AppleScripts. It allows you to run Perl ...

The latest installment, Wicked Cool Perl Scripts, includes a 75-line script that does currency conversions, including pulling latest conversion rates from xe.com; a 37-line script that searches for ...

Apple TV plugins have been rolling in, some with more utility to the average user than others. Two that popped up over the weekend caught my attention though. The first of which is an RSS plugin (beta ...

You may think of PERL as something for Unix gurus, but wise Windows administrators can also benefit from this powerful scripting language. So just what is PERL, and where did it come from? PERL stands ...