Change username to your Jejot’s username as well as the password.
Save it and put the file under ~/Library/Application Support/Quicksilver/Action/
Whenever you’re browsing a web, just activate Quicksilver and hit q+r (or anything to search QuickURL) and enter. In just a second your new shortened URL of the website you’re browsing will be in your clipboard.
Perfect companion for twitting (hints: use: QStwitter plugin)
For Firefox, just replace:
tell application “Safari” to tell application “Firefox“
If you are connecting to shared/remote folder often enough, you’d better make an alias for those drives and tick the “Remember this password on my keychain” so, the next time you want to access the drive, just click on the alias and you won’t be asked for your name and password.
Here is how:
Connect to the shared folder of your choice, enter name and password if it’s asked for, tick the “Remember this password on my keychain”
Navigate to the folder you want to access next time
Make an alias by holding the Option + Command and drag it to your sidebar
Rename the alias if you want to
Next time you want to access the remote drive, just click the shortcut on the sidebar.
Yesterday, we got a client who couldn’t empty his trash bin. He could put files and folders in trash, but can’t flush them and in fact all files were not locked.
He told us that he was updating the security update online and got disconnected! He had done reinstalling the security update and the problem was still there.
It turned out that the solution is so simple.
We looked at the hidden .Trash folder from the terminal, and the folder was look like ?.?Trash, so the solution is to rename it to .Trash.
Here is how: Go to terminal.app, make sure you are in your home directory:
1. type: pwd <enter> This should print your current directory such /Users/<yourhomefolder>, if you are not there, just type cd ~ <enter> to be in your home folder.
In Snow Leopard with iPhoto 09, the original image folder is somewhat hidden, you can go to this folder by right clicking the iPhoto Library > Show Package Content > Original.
If you need an access to this folder often enough, just create an alias (Command + L), or if you don’t want the system to add the word alias in it, just press Command + Option and drag the folder outside the original folder, don’t worry, you still know this one is an alias by looking at the tiny arrow at the bottom left-hand corner of it’s icon.
Well, as long as you have not turned on the FileFault, you will be okay. But, if the FileFault is turned on, and you forgot your password, then the files will be locked forever. FileFault will do the oneway encryption, so there is no option to do the reverse enginering.
If you are the user (not the administrator) you can just as the Administrator to reset your password. But, if you are the Administrator, then:
Have your DVD installer ready.
Insert the DVD to the tray
Restart and press down the letter ‘C’. It will load the installer DVD
On the first screen, select Installer > Reset Password
DiggUpdate from http://www.dbachrach.com/opensoft/ It will update Digg’s top stories. You can filter which categories to show up on this app.
MenuCalendarClock from http://www.objectpark.net/ This menubar app will give you a monthly calendar with just a click. It will also show your todos and events!
MenuMeter from http://www.ragingmenace.com/ I only activate the network profile, so I will know if the conenction is on or off.
Flip4Mac from http://flip4mac.com & Perian from http://perian.org/ This will give you the capabilities to watch Windows Media video or others with your Quicktime
Geektools from http://projects.tynsoe.org/en/geektool/ Great tools to show any information on your desktop. I use it to display my GCal, Twitter timeline, date and server monitoring.
If you have a mobile device, such a MacBook, you’d better password protect it. When your device got stolen, at least they’ll have a hard time to see your private information.
What if you’ve just left the device somewhere, then someone found it and wanted to inform you? They can’t, because there is no information about you, and they can’t log into the system.
Here is how you can put more information on the login panel:
Go to: /Library/Preferences
Double click on: com.apple.loginwindow.plist, the Property List Editor.app will be launched.
Click on ‘Add Child’
Enter the following information: Key:LoginwindowTextType:StringValue: If found, please contact…. yourmail@mail.com, your phone.
Save it. Make sure you have enabled ‘Disable automatic login’ in System Preferences > Security
Since I can’t find any built in shortcuts on my Mac OS X to do the select text and go surfing, so I decided to write a little AppleScript to do that. This trick saves me from selecting url (which is not clickable of course), copying to the clipboard, opening the Safari, pasting the clipboard to the address bar and pressing the enter button.
You can assign the using Quicksilver. (If you find a way to trigger Applescript using the built in Mac OS X features, please let me know.)
I assigned my trigger to Option + Shift + S, you can do whatever you want. The script has been tested on MacBook Pro 2.4Ghz with Snow Leopard. If you have a very old machine, you migh want to adjust the delay setting. Double click on the script to adjust the delay setting to a longer time.
Grab it here, and drag it to your ~/Library/Scrips or ~/Library/Application Support/Quicksilver/Actions or anywhere you want.
Here is a short demonstration how to use it
Select any URL on any application. (In this demo, I select appledoes.com from terminal.app)
Trigger the script. (By pressing my keystroke Opt + Shift + S) That’s it.
Enjoy
Updated: The script can now handle the email address as well, so it will open your Mail.app and insert the recipient address automatically.
If you like the script, donation is always accepted
Here is how you can shorten URL using Quicksilver. Jason Snell has made a handy Applescript and I’ve modified it a bit so it can handle a long weird URL as well and you can grab it here then put the script under /Applications/ folder.
The script will grab any URL of Safari’s frontmost page and send it to TinyURL to be shorten and it’s automatically recorded in your clipboard.
Just watch the video so you will have a better understanding.
When your Mac and PC won’t see each other in the same network, that’s because you are not in the same group.
Yesterday, we got a client who couldn’t empty his trash bin. He could put files and folders in trash, but can’t flush them and in fact all files were not locked.
In Snow Leopard with iPhoto 09, the original image folder is somewhat hidden, you can go to this folder by right clicking the iPhoto Library > Show Package Content > Original.
If you’re sharing your Mac with the whole family, you probably want to share the iTunes libary with the whole family.
Well, as long as you have not turned on the FileFault, you will be okay. But, if the FileFault is turned on, and you forgot your password, then the files will be locked forever. FileFault will do the oneway encryption, so there is no option to do the reverse enginering.
If you have a mobile device, such a MacBook, you’d better password protect it. When your device got stolen, at least they’ll have a hard time to see your private information.
You can assign the using Quicksilver. (If you find a way to trigger Applescript using the built in Mac OS X features, please let me know.)
