MoodBlast with Applescript Goodness

MoodBlast now has Applescript support. That means you can use all of its functionality from any program that supports Applescript. If you have a program to monitor track changes in iTunes, you can use that as well. And you can blast from Quicksilver with this simple action…

Quicksilver MoodBlast action

using terms from application "Quicksilver"
	on process text the_text

		tell application "MoodBlast" --Changed from MoodBlast2 with v3.0
			set results to blast the_text
			return null --otherwise it opens QS again
		end tell

	end process text
end using terms from

Save that as a .scpt file to ~/Application Support/Quicksilver/Actions and restart Quicksilver. Then you can just type “.” (period) to enter text mode, enter your blast and tab over to find your action and send the text to MoodBlast.

You can use ^overrides in your blast command to select services. ^y would send only to Yappd, while ^tau would send to Twitter, Adium and Tumblr, etc. ad nauseum. The blast directive will process anything that would be handled directly from the MoodBlast interface, including !bang-words.

The new version also adds support for auto-grabbing urls from the foreground application. Of course, you can disable this in the General preferences. If enabled, you can hit your hotkey while browsing in most browsers and it will grab the URL for the current page. The next version will probably support del.icio.us posting as well, but for now it formats links with titles and descriptions when possible, making for especially great posts to Tumblr. It works really well with Vienna newsreader, picking up selected text as the link description.

Lastly, it supports the latest SVN build of Adium, for those on the bleeding edge.