With every repetitive task comes a need to not want to do it anymore.
So, with the help of AppleScript, there are solutions to The Repetitive.

Show / Hide system and hidden files GUI

display dialog "So... Them secretive files, 	what shall I do with them?" buttons {"Show", "Hide"} ¬	default button 2copy the result as list to {buttonpressed}

try	if the buttonpressed is "Hide" then do shell script ¬		"defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles OFF"	if the buttonpressed is "Show" then do shell script ¬		"defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles ON"end try

do shell script "killall Finder"

MKV convert DTS audio to AC3 for use with the tv

With the help of Post_Break, from IAmTheKiller.net we made this script:

Click here for script

The Original post showing how to perform the conversion can be found here:

http://iamthekiller.net/2009/03/convert-mkv-video-for-the-appletv/

Since the tv is pretty much lame, it can’t handle everything like VLC can, so we need to down convert our pretty HD video to make it happy.