I haven’t really played much with Automator earlier on, but have found it to be very useful for doing small things that you would otherwise need to write a small shell script or program to do. Here is a screenshot of an Automator workflow which will add today’s date to the name of any file [...]
Read more →Here is how to create a USB drive for installing OSX.6 from a DMG file: Open Disk Utility Select your USB drive Select the “Restore” pane Choose your source DMG file Drag and drop your USB drive on the destination (I don’t understand why this isn’t already selected…). You should probably also select “Erase destination” [...]
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To organize files I have for a while been creating folder names that start with today’s date. I typically create a number of folders each day, and had grown tired of doing this manually. Then I came across a page describing the wonders of Automator, and decided to give it a try. It all is [...]
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I just installed Adobe Reader on my new computer, only to discover that it hijacked the PDF preview window in TextMate when working on LaTeX documents. This also happened the last time I installed a new system, and I couldn’t remember what I did to change it back to using Preview as the default PDF [...]
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I thought I had written about this trick on my blog before, but couldn’t find it. So I try again: How to invert the screen (systemwide) in OSX: ctrl-alt-cmd-8 This makes it possible to change between regular and inverted view. I find it particularly useful when sitting in a dark environment, since it makes the [...]
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