Paste and Match Styles WIth Exceptions

Most applications have a “Paste and Match Style” menu command. However most are kind of frustrating. What I typically want to use them for is to paste and have the text be the right font and font size. However these commands remove all style information including bold and italics. I almost always want to match the [...]

Manipulate Styled Text on Clipboard

One thing that Appscript doesn’t let you do easily is handle styled text from the clipboard in Python. (This isn’t Appscript’s fault of course – it wasn’t intended to) Putting styled text on the clipboard isn’t hard. I had a script I discussed last fall that does that. I use that script a lot to [...]

Print to PDF Extended

I’d put up a script a few weeks ago to print Safari screens so you have a record of what was on a website. There were a few limits to that script. First it didn’t have much to name the file by. Secondly you didn’t have control of where the file was saved. Here’s a [...]

Print to PDF

I was ranting the other day about Safari 5′s tendency to reload all the tabs and windows losing what you had displayed. For me the main problem was maintaining a display of FedEx labels in case I had to reprint one. In the comments someone had an excellent suggestion of simply scripting a print to [...]

Safari Auto-Reload: A Rant

OK, one of the new features of the current version of Safari is that it’ll reload tabs and windows based upon some criteria I can’t quite fathom. I’m not sure why it does this. I assume it has something to do with new memory management of some sort. It’s really annoying though. Here’s what happens [...]

Apple’s Neglect of Scripting

I know I’ve ranted on this before but a recent post by Drang made me think about it again. Apple’s blown hot and cold on AppleScript over the years, and we’re currently in the middle of an Alberta Clipper. Sandboxing threatens all kinds of Mac automation tools, and it’s simply not clear what sorts of [...]

Open Safari Window in NetNewsWire

There are lots of “save for later” apps to let you read web pages at your leisure. I recognize most of these are targeting people with multiple devices. So you might find a link during your day you want to read in the evening. Say on your iPad. So services like Pinboard, Instapaper and so [...]

What’s With the QuicKeys Delay?

A lot of us have been wondering why there hasn’t been a QuicKeys update in ages. Startly just put up a post about what happened. Apparently the main developer died and they are trying to find someone to take up the development. On the one hand that’s not the best of news as many features [...]

Copy FedEx Tracking Number

OK, I don’t know how many will care about this one. I use FedEx a lot. However every now and then they modify their web site in such a way that it completely screws up my workflow. The latest change is, I suspect, some unfortunate interaction between Safari and FedEx. But it’s amazingly annoying. Basically [...]

Using Open Meta with Spotlight

A couple of weeks back I’d mentioned my Open Meta script. This was basically a script that analyzed path names (i.e. the names of the folders a file was in) and the file name itself to create some meta data. That meta data was added to the file using the Open Meta standard. I realized [...]

Searching Mail with mdfind

A few years back I wrote a script that searched mail using mdfind. I discovered today that it doesn’t work with Lion anymore. It’s a minor fix. Mail just changed what gets indexed where. Basically the filename of mail messages isn’t indexed anymore. I can kind of understand why since anyone using that data is [...]

New Check for Safari 5.1 Being Finished

Just a quick update that most of you won’t care about. I have quite a few scripts that script Safari. However major updates to Safari often break parts of it. So I put updates here so people will see them (and if they ask questions I can link to this post)

Python and Styled Text on the Clipboard

If you are like me you use Python as an intermediary step in a lot of workflow. Sometimes you want nicely formatted tables or styled text. The way I used to do this was simply use MS Word, Pages or Numbers. (Numbers in particular is great for copying really nice styled tables into Mail) I [...]

Autopairing, Quickeys and BBEdit

  I noticed on Twitter that a few people having been asking about Auto-Pairing and BBEdit. Apparently there is an app, AutoPairs, that will add this feature. I have a different way I added it to my workflow. I figured a few might be intrigued since I do it with Quickeys. First I make an [...]

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