Here is a simple AppleScript to use in an Automator Service to get LaunchBar to show the selected text in big type (like LaunchBar will do with phone numbers):
on run {input, parameters}
set theString to (“x-launchbar:large-type?string=” & (item 1 of input)) as string
log theString
open location theString
return input
end run
Just set up a service to take text from [...]
From its beginnings in Mac OS X Tiger, Automator has been getting rave reviews. Automator opens up automation for the non-technical and allows for practically anyone to create powerful workflows. Since I’ve been an AppleScripter since System 7 Pro I’ve never really used Automator much. I found its building blocks approach to be limiting and [...]
I believe that v4 should have resolved issues that some users were experiencing with v3 (http://brettgrossphotography.com/2008/03/04/aperture-applescript-make-keywords-real-v03) crashing Aperture.
Make Keywords Real
Current version: 04
Built on: Aperture 2.1 / Mac OS X 10.5.6
This AppleScript operates on the current selection.
This is an update to the previous update and should work properly now.
This AppleScript will make Aperture’s virtual keywords [...]
Wow… Sal’s AppleScript book (AppleScript 1-2-3) is real. More than that, it’s here: FedEx just dropped it off (oddly from a Penske truck…). Coauthored by Bill Cheeseman, the book is a brick. Thick as a brick, that is. It’s actually heavier than a regular brick. When I’d ordered it from PeachPit, I didn’t look at [...]
Aperture can export *some* of the metadata associated with your images quickly & easily. It can’t, however, reimport that data nor can it export all of the metadata from your images.
Hence these AppleScripts.
The first one will export the metadata for all selected file. It will save the data to a text file with [...]
I use Smart Playlists to load my iPhone. One of my smart playlists is songs that are rated 4 or 5 stars. Currently that amounts to 337 songs and 2.5GB. I don’t want to put 2.GB of music onto my iPhone (I do need room for photos, apps, movies, and audiobooks!). To limit the number [...]
I tend to buy stuff from the iTunes Store. I’ll bet that a lot of you do as well. I like iTunes’ backup ability, but I don’t need a backup of all of my music nor do I want to burn a stack of DVDs when I just purchased a couple of albums.
Hence this [...]
A lot of people have asked me lately about mounting file servers based on certain user criteria. Usually this is based on whether or not a user is a member of certain user groups (faculty, graphics design, engineering…). This is actually a pretty easy task for a quick AppleScript and I’m going to present a [...]
Snapshot Aperture
Current version: 02
Built on: Aperture 2.1
This AppleScript allows you to select a number of Aperture Projects to export complete with master images. If a selected Project does not have all of its images online, the script will not export it and will tell you about it once it is done exporting the other Projects. [...]
Aperture 2.1 can now export full Projects with masters consolidated!
Wicked cool!
No sample script yet, but I wanted to shout out this great new feature-