Found 8 entries tagged with “automator”
- Use an alias as a discreet reminder
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Posted 16 March ‘08
There are a few things you need to know so you can understand my need for this: I am quite forgetful; other people use my Mac quite often; and I have a few Automator workflows (saved as applications) that I run at regular times for various tasks. - Want to shut down a Mac using an Apple Remote? Cheat … like I did - UPDATED 3
Posted 14 May ‘07
Sometime ago I was whinging about not being able to shut down my MacBook using my Apple Remote, the short version of which was I wanted to do it using Proxi. - Delay start-up items to make them quicker 13
Posted 12 June ‘06
I don’t know about you, but whenever I start/restart my Mac I hate the way that, when it’s got to the desktop, it tries to launch all the start-up items at the same time and so your hard-drive is whirring like mad, hopping back and forth and splitting its time between each app. - Easy backups with Automator and smart folders 15
Posted 10 April ‘06
A while back I did some bitching and moaning about not being able to use Finder’s smart folders for doing backups. A quick recap, minus the whinging: I wanted to be able to label files with colours and have them copied to my iDisk using an Automator workflow. I tried … and failed. So I cobbled together an alternative solution marking files with Spotlight comments instead of colours. It did the job, but not the way I wanted. But now someone has, at last, written the one action for Automator that I’ve been waiting for all along. - Get your morning news with Automator 7
Posted 5 April ‘06
Being a creature of habit I like to get up in the morning, wash and get dressed, have some coffee, eat my breakfast and then sit myself in front of my iMac with another coffee and catch up on all the news that’s broken since I hoisted myself into bed 11 hours earlier - I check my email, read my news feeds and then check a few websites along with my customers sites to make sure every thing’s ticking over nicely. - Backup files automatically by selecting them in Finder 0
Posted 20 December ‘05
A while back I did some complaining about the fact that I couldn’t label files using Finder’s coloured labels and then back them up using Backup or Automator. - Put your Mac to sleep by sending a text message 60
Posted 18 November ‘05
Do you ever go out shopping, to the pub or to the beauty clinic for your fortnightly waxing session and forget to put your Mac to sleep? I know I do, so I thought of a way to do it by sending a text message from my mobile/cell phone - well, technically we’re not going to be sending a text (SMS) message, rather a multimedia (MMS) message. - Trying to use a smart folder 2
Posted 28 May ‘05
I don’t have much that I need to save in order to make my life worth carrying on with should my hard drive die; currently I back up about two and a half gigabytes of data to a DVD-RW once a week. There are more than a few smallish files that could do with being saved daily so I decided to try and copy them to my iDisk with as little of my interaction as possible - I thought using a smart folder would be the key.