Some of you may know that Skype have an API that you can access via Applescript. To do such tasks as send sms text messages.
You may have found that for some unexplained reason this has stopped working?
Join List items v2
Version 2.
Now allows you to add single quotes,double quotes or no quotes around each list item as it is placed in the final string. This is useful for example in placing single quotes around file paths in the list.
Join List items Applescript Script libraries command
join list items command
#the list
set theList to {“the”, “cat”, “jumped”, “over”}
#join the list
set theString to join list items theList using text space
Result:
“the cat jumped over”
After watching Apples Introducing AppleScript Libraries WWDC 2013 session 416. I wanted to share one of my simple Applescript Libraries commands.
Applescript Libraries are a new thing in Mavericks which allow you to put all you commonly used Applescript handlers in one place to make them easily accessible in any new script.
As apposed to having them only in snippet file or some script file stored somewhere you cannot remember where or what exactly the code contained to help find it.
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SOLVED – WordPress.com on iOS – Jetpack “sorry we can’t log you in. Please update your credentials and try again”.
For months now I have not been able to see my stats or notifications using the WordPress iOS app on iPhone or iPad.
Why. Because after an update; every time I tried to use the ‘stats’ or ‘notifications’ buttons the app kept telling me “sorry we can’t log you in. Please update your credentials and try again”.
Googling and reading posts on the WordPress support site showed me many others had the same problem. But no concrete answers were forthcoming…
Sure I could see my site and login to the Admin and click the jetpack button there. Which would show me the stats etc. But doing that just takes me to Mobile Safari. And on an iPhone it is not such nice an experience or interface. Everything is tiny. Pinch zoom, pinch zoom..
Today I finally solved it for me at least and want to share how..
Grrr.. PackageMaker things to remember
I do not often use Apples PackageMaker; Part of Apples Developer Auxiliary tools
When I do dabble I always forget a couple of simple things that stops me in my tracks and have me spending a whole lot of wasted time trying to figure out whats going on.
I am writing this post in the hope it will burn at least two of the things I forget firmly into my BRAIN.
The first thing
An Epiphany for fixing NSPopover not closing behaviour
First this is not a tutorial for NSPopover . Just fix for an issue.
Apple introduced NSPopover in OS X v10.7
The NSPopover class provides a means to display additional content related to existing content on the screen. The popover is positioned relative to the existing content.
An anchor is used to express the relation between these two units of content. A popover has an appearance that specifies its visual characteristics, as well as a behavior that determines which user interactions will cause the popover to close. …….
But it seems Apple never intended for the NSPopover to be used in a NSStatusBar menu item. Those are the little menu icons in you menu bar that when you click show you info or perform an action. This is probably why Apple has not fixed the bugs when using a popover in this way.
THE Problem
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Make a new note in note.app from selected text.
I just noticed a post on cult of mac which showed how to make a new Automator ” System Service To Save Text to Notes.app In Mountain Lion”
It is a nice idea but I was surprised that the Author used a copy to clipboard Automator Action along with a Run Applescript action
There is some redundancy in this workflow as well as unnecessary GUI commands.
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Keep apps from adding themselves to login items when installing them.
Some times when you install applications they also add them selves to the login items.
This means they will startup when you login to your account. Which in some cases is not desirable.
Someone asked on Stackoverflow how to stop this.
I posted two approaches.
- Lock the login items preference file. items preference file.
- Get notified when there is a change to your login
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Automatically Save Attachments in Mail.app
At the request from : Brian Jones
I wrote an Applescript for a Mail.app Rule that will Automatically Save Attachments in Mail.app .
(* For Yosemite : please see Reported issues below *)
The script uses the mail senders email address to gives each sender their own attachments folder.
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Control your Mac from any where with Hazel and Dropbox
This is a simple idea of how to control your Mac from your iPhone or iPad or another Mac any where just use Dropbox and Hazel .
Hazel watches whatever folders you tell it to, automatically organizing your files according to the rules you create. It features a rule interface similar to that of Apple Mail so you should feel right at home. Have Hazel move files around based on name, date, type, what site/email address it came from (Safari and Mail only) and much more. Automatically put your music in your Music folder, movies in Movies. Keep your downloads off the desktop and put them where they are supposed to be
Here is a simple example
The steps on your Mac.
Create a folder in dropbox :
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