Silly Hacks

A common complaint about QuickTime is that in order to play movies in fullscreen mode, one has to pay $30 to upgrade to the Pro version, which allows fullscreen playback (among other goodies). However, this can be circumvented with the following AppleScript:

tell application "QuickTime Player"
    enter full screen display 1
    set the scale of movie 1 to screen
    play movie 1
end tell

I should add AppleScript to the list of “Things that would be really cool if I knew just a bit more about.” I’ll get around to it…someday…