A few weeks ago, Bob Cassidy taught us some tips about how to get Keyboard Maestro to do our bidding. He was helping me with a specific macro that needed to be triggered on a Finder item. At the end of his explanation, he wrote: I think the ideal way to trigger this macro would […]
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Finder and Terminal in the Same Window – Fun with Scripts — by Bruce from Tennessee
This is Bruce from Tennessee, aka UseTheData, with a tip for working with the Finder and Terminal. The problem to be solved is that, when working with files, I find some operations to be easier in the Finder and others to be easier in the Terminal. There are times where I needed a terminal window […]
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Tiny Tip – AppleScript to Launch Terminal in Current Finder Directory by Frank Vos
Last week I talked about using the proxy icon in Finder windows to drag into a Terminal window so I could quickly change directory quickly without typing the full path and without having to escape out the spaces between words in my directory paths. Frank Vos wrote in with a great tip on how to […]
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CCATP #559 – Sal Soghoian & Ray Robertson on Automation
In this episode of Chit Chat Across the Pond I talk to Sal Soghoian and Ray Robertson. Sal was the Product Manager of Automation Technologies at Apple from 1997 to 2016. During his tenure, he was pretty much responsible for all of the automation in the Mac operating system and even the Terminal. Ray Robertson […]
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My Code-Free Automation Talk from CMD-D & a New CMD-D Class
Almost a year ago I told you how excited and honored I was to be asked to speak at Sal Saghoian’s CMD-D Conference on automation. My talk was entitled “Code-Free Automation”. The talks were recorded by Alex Lindsay and the Pixel Corps and only just now have been made available to the public! I’m thrilled […]
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Almost a year ago I told you how excited and honored I was to be asked to speak at Sal Saghoian’s CMD-D Conference on automation. My talk was entitled “Code-Free Automation”. The talks were recorded by Alex Lindsay and the Pixel Corps and only just now have been made available to the public! I’m thrilled […]
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I Want to Automate ALL the Things
The CMD-D Conference infected me with the desire to automate everything. I’m pretty sure that was their evil plan all along. In this article I’m going to talk about one quick thing I did in AppleScript in the finder, then tell what I hope is an interesting story of discovery in AppleScript for Photos, then […]
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CMD-D | Masters of Automation with Sal Soghoian
Sal Soghoian This week Steve and I attended, and I spoke at the CMD-D Conference, created by Sal Soghoian. Sal was responsible for all Automation at Apple for many years. His team managed AppleScript, Automaton, and Terminal. Pretty much all the coolest stuff at Apple. I have to tell you I was pretty intimidated about […]
Continue readingNC #573 BitTorrent Sync, Enigmo, Making Fire, Remote File Access with myDrobo and DroboAccess, Beurer GS485 Digital Glass Scale
Allister here standing in for Allison this week. I’ll tell you how I solved my OS X network drive problems. Then Dorothy, aka MacLurker, reviews the iOS game Enigmo. Next, inspired by Allison, I encourage you to play with fire. We hear from Drobo about their new myDrobo and DroboAccess services from the NAB conference. And finally, I review […]
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Allister here, still standing in for Allison. About a month ago, Allison wrote a blog post entitled “I have made fire!” which briefly chronicled how she had imagined a change she wanted to make to a scripted, automated backup of the podfeet.com server and how she made that change all by herself, using knowledge gained in […]
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