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Paste Safari Link In MarsEdit

This could be a very useful script for other tools as well:

Red Sweater Blog – Paste Safari Link In MarsEdit.

Posted on 2013-01-042013-01-04Categories Links, Tools

Expand flat pkgs from the finder

Nice tool with an honorable mention of yours truly…

Stop worrying and… at least like the bomb.

Posted on 2012-12-182012-12-18Categories Links, Tools1 Comment on Expand flat pkgs from the finder

Where Automator Actions and Workflows Live

This is a wonderful overview over where workflows and scripts have to be to be found by their respective applications and tools.

Where Automator Actions and Workflows Live | TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog.

Posted on 2012-12-172012-12-17Categories Links

JSON Helper for AppleScript

Looks like an interesting tool to enhance AppleScript functionality. I also like the way they distribute it as an App through the App Store.

JSON Helper for AppleScript.

Posted on 2012-12-142012-12-14Categories Links, Tools

John Gruber: The unlikely persistence of AppleScript

I’d be totally remiss not to mention this, just go and read it:

The unlikely persistence of AppleScript

Posted on 2012-12-132012-12-13Categories Links

Control the Finder with the Terminal

Interesting approach to connecting the Finder more with the Terminal.

Control the Finder with the Terminal – Mac OS X Hints.

Personally I am satisfied with just using “open .” from the Terminal and dragging a folder from the Finder to the Terminal icon to open a Terminal window and cd there right away.

Posted on 2012-12-132012-12-13Categories Links, Tools

Automatic screen shot sharing with Dropbox and Automator

Automatic screen shot sharing with Dropbox and Automator – Matteo Agosti.

Posted on 2012-10-312012-10-31Categories Links

Assign keyboard shortcuts to Mail outgoing accounts

Mountain Lion 101: Assign keyboard shortcuts to Mail outgoing accounts | TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog.

I have used this setting for Mail in the past and am really glad that Mountain Lion makes it work again.

Posted on 2012-10-112012-10-10Categories Links

Add URLs to Reading List automatically from e-mails

Add URLs to Reading List automatically from e-mails – Mac OS X Hints.

Posted on 2012-10-102012-10-10Categories Links

Script to Delete ‘Where From’ Metadata

Delete ‘Where From’ metadata from files – Mac OS X Hints.

I knew I would have to do this often, so instead of running a shell script every time I wanted to strip the Where From, I wrote an AppleScript

This is why and how you write scripts. 🙂

Posted on 2010-12-092010-12-08Categories LinksTags AppleScript, extended attributes, files, script, xattr

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